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Synonyms and antonyms of the word: shrapnel

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A 60-year-old woman was shot twice in the leg, a 40-year-old man was shot once in the foot, a 36-year-old man was injured by shrapnel in his leg, and a 29-year-old man had a bullet graze wound in his leg.

Source: https://abc13.com/houston-drive-by-shooting-gun-violence-shots-fired-at-store-on-lockwood-people-hospitalized/12714285/

A Magen David Adom paramedic who attended the scene said he found the seriously injured man lying next to the vehicle, conscious and with shrapnel wounds.

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/two-netanya-residents-injured-in-car-explosion/

An anaesthetist, who gives his call sign Marik, says the two most seriously injured men just brought in had shrapnel wounds but his team were able to remove tourniquets from their limbs - restoring blood supply so they wouldn't require amputation.

Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/just-typical-day-rescuing-wounded-soldiers-ukraine-front-3372391?cid=cna_flip_070214

A rocket fired at them from a Grad system had peppered the legs and back of a fellow landmine-clearer with shrapnel.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/13/ukraine-sappers-mine-clearers-russia-war

Begin thinking about what you have: draft notice, photographs, news clippings, greeting cards, letters, notes, telegrams, citations, ribbons, shrapnel.

Source: https://miamivalleytoday.com/mvvm-veterans-memoirs/

But there's also the new fear of getting crushed by a pane of glass, getting ripped in half by an elevator, being impaled thanks to a delayed airbag deployment, being blown up by a BBQ grill, and being trisected by fence shrapnel.

Source: https://www.slashfilm.com/1419458/final-destination-movies-ranked/

Gaping gashes from shrapnel in the courtyard walls around her testify to the dangers of venturing outside -- exposed and without the body armour that Ukrainian soldiers defending Vuhledar wear when they emerge from their bunkers.

Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/on-ukraine-front-civilians-cling-on-as-troops-repel-russia-1.6290019

He dragged wounded Sergeant Reed through the water with him to the beach and then was struck in the back with shrapnel from a mortar shell that “killed or wounded all of my mortar section.”

Source: https://pjmedia.com/culture/catherinesalgado/2023/06/06/rangers-lead-the-way-army-ranger-heroes-of-d-day-n1700964

He was evacuated by hospital ship to the UK and was serving with a Reserve Battalion in September 1918 when an X-Ray showed shrapnel still embedded in the base of his tongue.

Source: https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion/columnists/they-returned-from-horrific-warfare-to-houses-for-heroes-4210466

He was wounded a few weeks ago by shrapnel from a land mine.

Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/08/laurence-m-vance/fight-for-ukraine-at-your-own-risk/

In April, Olga was killed by shrapnel from an explosion when she “ran out for cigarettes”, an eyewitness said.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/25/thats-my-neighbour-mariupol-residents-shock-at-putins-parade-line-up

It was later ascertained that Butch has been killed during the landing at Tarakan with a piece of shrapnel striking him in the chest killing him instantly.

Source: https://www.irrigator.com.au/story/8059207/best-friends-in-life-and-during-war-for-two-leeton-buddies/?src=rss

I underwent surgery in the middle of the night, and they took shrapnel out."

Source: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syria-homs-attack-families-mourn-victims

Jimmy was wounded by a bayonet and shrapnel to his knee and went to a recuperation centre in Edinburgh, before serving in Egypt and Palestine in 1946.

Source: https://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/the-memories-of-one-of-britains-last-remaining-second-world-war-paratroopers-who-lives-in-kettering-4349991

Kidd needed surgery after being hit with a piece of shrapnel – and required the pain meds that earned the episode its title – over on the set again, with a distressed Severide staying by her side in recovery.

Source: https://www.cinemablend.com/television/after-resolving-the-explosive-cliffhanger-chicago-fire-set-up-a-whole-new-problem-for-firehouse-51

Kinsley was hit by shrapnel, which lodged in her cheek.

Source: https://www.rawstory.com/2020-election-michigan-voting-machines/

Knight was grazed by a bullet fragment - or shrapnel - from the car.

Source: https://www.euronews.com/2023/09/30/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-tupac-murder-arrest-so-far

Last Tuesday, a city resident named Mykola, 62, was boarding one of the regular evacuation trains from Kherson after a Russian shell riddled his home with shrapnel days before.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/world/europe/kherson-ukraine.html