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body blow

noun

Definitions

  1. A severely injurious or damaging physical strike or impact.

    • The fight is not all one-sided. Lion is taking a savage beating as the two flagships trade body blows almost independent of the furious carronade going on behind them.

  2. A serious setback

    A serious setback; a traumatizing event which prevents or hinders continuation of an activity.

    • "I can hardly exaggerate the body blow to the Service such a decision would give. Nobody will believe in it again."
    • The polio vaccination program took a body blow last spring when the disease developed in children injected with vaccine from the Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif.
    • And the government received a psychological body-blow with the crushing defeat of the Blakeney government in neighboring Saskatchewan.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA