Usually means: Serious physical injury to person.
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  1. grievous bodily harm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. grievous bodily harm: Collins English Dictionary
  3. grievous bodily harm: Vocabulary.com
  4. grievous bodily harm: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. grievous bodily harm: Wiktionary
  6. grievous bodily harm: Dictionary.com
  7. Grievous Bodily Harm (disambiguation), Grievous Bodily Harm, Grievous bodily harm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. grievous bodily harm: Rhymezone
  9. grievous bodily harm: FreeDictionary.org
  10. grievous bodily harm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. grievous bodily harm: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. grievous bodily harm: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. grievous bodily harm: Encyclopedia

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  1. Grievous bodily harm: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

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Definitions from Wiktionary (grievous bodily harm)

▸ noun:  (UK) Serious physical injury to a person, or the fact of causing such injury.

Similar:
actual bodily harm, repeated bodily harm, bruising, injury, body blow, trauma, violence, aggravated assault, mayhem, wound, more...

Opposite:
minor injury, superficial wound

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Similar:
actual bodily harm, repeated bodily harm, bruising, injury, body blow, trauma, violence, aggravated assault, mayhem, wound, more...

Opposite:
minor injury, superficial wound



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