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hibakusha

hi·ba·ku·sha [ híbbə kshə ] (plural hi·ba·ku·sha or hi·ba·ku·shas)


noun 
Definition:
 
survivor of atomic bomb: a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki in 1945

[Mid-20th century. < Japanese, "somebody who suffers an explosion"]
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