Usually means: Unable to continue fighting effectively.
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  1. hors de combat: Merriam-Webster
  2. hors de combat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hors de combat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hors de combat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hors de combat: Wordnik
  6. hors de combat: Wiktionary
  7. hors de combat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. Hors de combat, hors de combat: Dictionary.com
  9. hors de combat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Hors de combat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Hors de combat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. hors de combat: Rhymezone
  13. Hors de combat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. Hors de Combat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. hors de combat: FreeDictionary.org
  16. hors de combat: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hors de combat: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. hors de combat: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hors de combat)

▸ adjective:  (international law, literary) Out of action; disabled; no longer able to fight.

Similar:
disabled, injured, out of action, lost in action, paralyzed, inactive, incapacitated, netdead, deedless, down, more...

Opposite:
in action, combat-ready, able-bodied, fit for duty

Adjectives:
null, 404, contraband, interdicted, obsolescent, defunct, null and void, taboo, insolvent, bankrupt
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Similar:
disabled, injured, out of action, lost in action, paralyzed, inactive, incapacitated, netdead, deedless, down, more...

Opposite:
in action, combat-ready, able-bodied, fit for duty

Adjectives:
null, 404, contraband, interdicted, obsolescent, defunct, null and void, taboo, insolvent, bankrupt



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