"powder burn" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "1944 April 17, “Mexico: At the Palacio Nacional”, in Time, retrieved 2014-05-13",
          "text": "To anxious throngs who crowded into Mexico City's Palacio Nacional this week, bland President Manuel Avila Camacho displayed a two-inch swath burned in the jacket of his grey-and-red striped suit, a similar powder burn in his white shirt beneath. The burns were over his heart. A jiu jitsu trick and somewhat erratic marksmanship were all that had saved the President.",
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        {
          "ref": "1983 June 4, Lydia Chavez, “Salvador Photos Indicate Massacre”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-05-13",
          "text": "Most had head wounds and powder burns, indicating that they had been shot at close range.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 Oct. 8, grumpynerd, \"Writer's Book Report: TRUE GRIT,\" Daily Kos (retrieved 13 May 2014)",
          "text": "Tom Chaney is a depraved man who kills for no good reason. . . . Chaney has a powder burn on his face."
        }
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        "A burn, ordinarily superficial and on someone's skin, resulting from proximity to an explosion of gunpowder, such as that associated with the discharge of a firearm."
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          "superficial",
          "superficial"
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          "proximity",
          "proximity"
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        [
          "gunpowder",
          "gunpowder"
        ],
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          "discharge",
          "discharge"
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          "firearm",
          "firearm"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "powder-burn"
        }
      ]
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  "word": "powder burn"
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          "ref": "1944 April 17, “Mexico: At the Palacio Nacional”, in Time, retrieved 2014-05-13",
          "text": "To anxious throngs who crowded into Mexico City's Palacio Nacional this week, bland President Manuel Avila Camacho displayed a two-inch swath burned in the jacket of his grey-and-red striped suit, a similar powder burn in his white shirt beneath. The burns were over his heart. A jiu jitsu trick and somewhat erratic marksmanship were all that had saved the President.",
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          "ref": "1983 June 4, Lydia Chavez, “Salvador Photos Indicate Massacre”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-05-13",
          "text": "Most had head wounds and powder burns, indicating that they had been shot at close range.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 Oct. 8, grumpynerd, \"Writer's Book Report: TRUE GRIT,\" Daily Kos (retrieved 13 May 2014)",
          "text": "Tom Chaney is a depraved man who kills for no good reason. . . . Chaney has a powder burn on his face."
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "powder-burn"
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  "word": "powder burn"
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