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walking wounded
noun
- casualties, as of a military conflict, who are wounded but ambulatory.
- Informal. persons who have been damaged or defeated psychologically or emotionally by their experiences in life.
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Origin of walking wounded1
Example Sentences
We watch another two dozen injured Ukrainian soldiers being loaded on to a bus to be taken to a hospital in Dnipro – some walking wounded, others carried on stretchers.
Ellis Williams, who was sitting in the front passenger, seat was the only "walking wounded" survivor of the crash.
And now many of these mostly small and mid-sized walking wounded could soon be facing their day of reckoning, with due dates looming on hundreds of billions of dollars of loans they may not be able to pay back.
"I think that he indulged in some monstrous behaviour without ever quite being a monster himself, but more like the walking wounded," he says.
But right now, they note, so many of the nation's buildings, bridges, tunnels and dams are among the walking wounded that the first priority should be setting up a triage system.
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