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Damage volunteers with a rum cocktail (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

trauma

'damage' is the definition.
(I have seen 'Emotional damage ' mean 'trauma' so perhaps 'damage' could also mean 'trauma')

'volunteers with a rum cocktail' is the wordplay.
'volunteers' becomes 'TA' (abbreviation for Territorial Army).
'with' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'cocktail' indicates anagramming the letters.
'a'+'rum'='arum'
'arum' anagrammed gives 'raum'.
'ta' placed around 'raum' is 'TRAUMA'.

(Other definitions for trauma that I've seen before include "Deep distress; injury" , "Lasting shock or disturbance" , "dreadful shock!" , "Nervous shock" , "Bodily or mental shock" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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