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- noun Alternative spelling of
shell shock .
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Examples
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It was what they call shellshock, a terrible thing.
The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France Henry Van Dyke 1892
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"I was in shellshock because I'd been pretty badly beaten up on the last film," Hardy said.
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It was once known as shellshock or even combat fatigue.
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"The wind of a ball," what we should now call shellshock, sometimes killed men whose bodies appeared to be uninjured.
Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence George McKinnon Wrong 1904
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She'd been hearing bits about this "shellshock" business from Sarah, and it didn't surprise her at all that Reggie suffered from it-fine, so he was overwhelmed by fear.
Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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"After nine years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, they are beginning to recognize age-old legacies of the battlefield -- once known as shellshock or battle fatigue -- as combat wounds, not signs of weakness.
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Nobody on the tanker died in the action, but upon return to the Brooklyn Naval Yard, three crew members were treated for post-traumatic stress disorder, then called "shellshock" or
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"After nine years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, they are beginning to recognize age-old legacies of the battlefield -- once known as shellshock or battle fatigue -- as combat wounds, not signs of weakness.
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"Now that we're alone, boy," Grandfather said, with a particularly vicious look out of the corner of his eye at Reggie, "I want you to know I don't hold with this 'shellshock' nonsense.
Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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He was a World War II veteran in Italy, France, Germany and the Philippines, and he blamed it on shellshock.
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