combat death
Killed in action
Combat death refers to a death occurring during armed conflict, specifically one caused by enemy action rather than accident, illness, or other non-hostile causes.
Military organizations distinguish combat deaths from non-combat deaths for statistical and benefits purposes: His son was listed as a combat death after the ambush.
The term appears in casualty reports and veterans' affairs contexts.
- fallenHaving dropped down
- fallen soldierMilitary member killed serving
- casualtyPerson harmed in disaster
- battlefieldCombat engagement area
- soldierArmed forces member
killed · killed in action · warfare · slain · fatality · memorial · sacrifice · ultimate sacrifice · wounds · military · heroic · mortal · bloodshed · carnage · frontline · KIA · missing in action · burial
- death causesnatural causes, homicide, murder, suffocation, strangulation
- fatal causeshomicide, suicide, drowning, electrocution, suffocation
- killingshomicide, murder for hire, manslaughter, killing, assassination
combat deathnatural death
Death from internal causes
peaceful death · civilian casualty · collateral damage · accidental death
combat, death, combats, combated, combatted, combating, combatting, combatant, combatants