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Purple Heart
noun
: a U.S. military award that is given to a soldier who is wounded or killed in battle
Full Definition of PURPLE HEART
: a United States military decoration awarded to any member of the armed forces wounded or killed in action
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First Known Use of PURPLE HEART
1932
Rhymes with PURPLE HEART
à la carte, anti-art, applecart, beauty part, bleeding heart, Bonaparte, counterpart, egg and dart, fall apart, flying start, for one's part, heart-to-heart, Liddell Hart, lose one's heart, martial art, mini-mart, on one's part, open-heart, plastic art, poles apart, purpleheart, running start, set apart, take apart, underpart, upperpart
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