grievous bodily harm
B2CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Really serious physical injury inflicted on another person, forming the basis of a serious assault offence.
He was charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent after the victim suffered a fractured skull.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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