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单词 combat fatigue
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Definition of combat fatigue in English:

combat fatigue

noun
  • 1

    more recent term for shell shock
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Fewer than half the raiders returned - malnutrition, combat fatigue, disease, death and wounds had thinned their ranks.
    • The combat fatigue syndrome, which was expected to vanish with the passage of time, has proved to be chronic, if not irreversible in certain of its victims.
    • Overcoming this kind of fear is often more difficult than dealing with the combat fatigue itself.
    • What happens when someone like me has been through enormous battle stress and combat fatigue and then comes home to no counselling?
    • Veterans from World War II and Korea who had trouble readjusting to civilian life were said to suffer from combat fatigue or, euphemistically, ‘nerves.’
    • The laity also suffers from a sense of combat fatigue.
  • 2combat fatiguesCombat dress.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was dressed in urban combat fatigues and armed with a light machine gun.
    • Later I see a father and son, both dressed in the near-obligatory combat fatigues, eagerly discussing the firepower on show.
    • At the hospital's main gate, a security guard who tried to stop the bus backed off when he saw the rebels in their combat fatigues waving automatic rifles and holding grenades.
    • And they got put into combat fatigues quite often.
    • All were dressed in black combat fatigues complete with balaclavas.
    • She still carried herself like a soldier, wearing her green combat fatigues like a second skin, but she wasn't the warrior she used to be.
    • Off come the suits and on go the combat fatigues as they find themselves traversing demanding assault courses and being shouted at by former soldiers in a bid to improve their team skills and creativity.
    • Their army being what it is, there aren't enough tan desert combat fatigues to go around, so short-timers who are counting the remainder of their tours in days and not weeks have to turn theirs in and resort to relish greens.
    • Dressed in combat fatigues, her long hair in braids that are tucked in, and her feet in thick boots, the only femininity she betrays is fading silver-coloured varnish on her finger nails.
    • They donned combat fatigues over the weekend for military exercises.
    • He paused by a dresser, lifting a photograph of a group of soldiers in combat fatigues grouped around a pink Sikorsky helicopter painted with a screaming blue face.
    • Members of the armed forces in combat fatigues ran down the street between stationary cars.
    • They were decked out in their combat fatigues and they lined up by the casket.
    • I should have known when the two hosts were dressed in combat fatigues.
    • Dozens of airmen have been to see her since last Tuesday to get their name tags and ranks sewn onto their flying suits, dungarees and combat fatigues - a sure sign they are preparing for action.
    • Behind him and around him are men in combat fatigues and berets, some in the stand-at ease position, one with a flag.
    • Both were dressed in combat fatigues and both were well armed (AK - 47s, G3s and rockets were often mentioned).
    • The remarkable thing about Globe productions is that they are gimmick-free; no VWs drive on stage, no soldiers in combat fatigues appear with Kalashnikovs.
    • We are having a couple of Marines come in the collect the toys from the boys in their dress uniforms and combat fatigues.
    • Soldiers in combat fatigues and carrying rifles patrolled on foot in teams of two or three around the buildings.

Definition of combat fatigue in US English:

combat fatigue

nounkəmˈbæt
  • 1Psychological disturbance caused by prolonged exposure to active warfare, especially being under bombardment.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The laity also suffers from a sense of combat fatigue.
    • What happens when someone like me has been through enormous battle stress and combat fatigue and then comes home to no counselling?
    • Veterans from World War II and Korea who had trouble readjusting to civilian life were said to suffer from combat fatigue or, euphemistically, ‘nerves.’
    • The combat fatigue syndrome, which was expected to vanish with the passage of time, has proved to be chronic, if not irreversible in certain of its victims.
    • Overcoming this kind of fear is often more difficult than dealing with the combat fatigue itself.
    • Fewer than half the raiders returned - malnutrition, combat fatigue, disease, death and wounds had thinned their ranks.
  • 2combat fatiguesA uniform of a type to be worn into combat.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We are having a couple of Marines come in the collect the toys from the boys in their dress uniforms and combat fatigues.
    • He was dressed in urban combat fatigues and armed with a light machine gun.
    • Members of the armed forces in combat fatigues ran down the street between stationary cars.
    • Dressed in combat fatigues, her long hair in braids that are tucked in, and her feet in thick boots, the only femininity she betrays is fading silver-coloured varnish on her finger nails.
    • All were dressed in black combat fatigues complete with balaclavas.
    • Behind him and around him are men in combat fatigues and berets, some in the stand-at ease position, one with a flag.
    • Both were dressed in combat fatigues and both were well armed (AK - 47s, G3s and rockets were often mentioned).
    • He paused by a dresser, lifting a photograph of a group of soldiers in combat fatigues grouped around a pink Sikorsky helicopter painted with a screaming blue face.
    • Soldiers in combat fatigues and carrying rifles patrolled on foot in teams of two or three around the buildings.
    • She still carried herself like a soldier, wearing her green combat fatigues like a second skin, but she wasn't the warrior she used to be.
    • Dozens of airmen have been to see her since last Tuesday to get their name tags and ranks sewn onto their flying suits, dungarees and combat fatigues - a sure sign they are preparing for action.
    • Later I see a father and son, both dressed in the near-obligatory combat fatigues, eagerly discussing the firepower on show.
    • They were decked out in their combat fatigues and they lined up by the casket.
    • At the hospital's main gate, a security guard who tried to stop the bus backed off when he saw the rebels in their combat fatigues waving automatic rifles and holding grenades.
    • I should have known when the two hosts were dressed in combat fatigues.
    • They donned combat fatigues over the weekend for military exercises.
    • And they got put into combat fatigues quite often.
    • Off come the suits and on go the combat fatigues as they find themselves traversing demanding assault courses and being shouted at by former soldiers in a bid to improve their team skills and creativity.
    • The remarkable thing about Globe productions is that they are gimmick-free; no VWs drive on stage, no soldiers in combat fatigues appear with Kalashnikovs.
    • Their army being what it is, there aren't enough tan desert combat fatigues to go around, so short-timers who are counting the remainder of their tours in days and not weeks have to turn theirs in and resort to relish greens.
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