Usually means: Injured but still able to function.
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  1. the walking wounded: Merriam-Webster
  2. walking wounded: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. walking wounded: Wiktionary
  4. walking wounded: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. walking wounded: Dictionary.com
  6. The Walking Wounded, Walking Wounded (The Tea Party song), Walking Wounded (short stories), Walking Wounded, Walking wounded: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. walking wounded: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (walking wounded)

noun:  (plural only, in triage) Those casualties whose wounds do not require them to be moved on a stretcher but that can walk to medical treatment.

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