💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Dead leg"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| dead-legnoun | Alternative form of dead leg (blow to the upper thigh) [A blow to the upper thigh, crushing the muscle against the bone and crushing the nerve cluster next to the quadriceps. Also, the resulting injury.] |
| kneefulnoun | Enough to cover of fill a knee. |
| injurynoun | Damage to the body of a living thing. |
| attaintnoun | A wound on the leg of a horse caused by a blow. |
| body blownoun | (boxing) A hard punch struck to the torso. |
| kneenoun | (anatomy) In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank. |
| kneeingverb | A blow made with the knee |
| kneebarnoun | (combat sports) A joint lock where the knee is hyperextended in order to cause pain and/or injury. |
| joint locknoun | (combat sports) Any lock designed to hyperextend one of the joints of the body, leading to pain and/or injury. |
| kneecappingnoun | (gerund) The act of injuring the knees of (a person), usually by shooting at the knees; often a punishment carried out by criminals or terrorists. |
| leggaznoun | (MTE, slang) A shot in the leg. |
| kicknoun | A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee. |
| kerchunknoun | A sudden heavy blow or thump. |
| crepancenoun | An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg, and sometimes causing an ulcer. |
| dead | (usually not comparable) No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.) |
| body-blownoun | Alternative form of body blow. [A severely injurious or damaging physical strike or impact.] |
| burnnoun | A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals. |
| amputationnoun | surgical removal of all or part of a limb, etc. |
| killverb | (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of. |
| knee-jerknoun | Unthinking, not carefully considered, (nearly) automatic, spontaneous, easily predictable. |
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