Injury
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English
Noun
Injury (plural injuries)- Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character.
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- See also Thesaurus:injury
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Verbs for Injury
avenge—; bewail—; compensate; tortail—; expose to—; inflict — upon; against—; occasion- entail—; expose to—; inflict — upon; insure against—; occasion—; preserve from—; proclaim—; receive—; recover from—; recuperate from—; resist—; suffer—; sustain—; work—; —cripples; —outrages; —restricts; —unnerves.
Thesaurus
abomination, abrasion, abuse, ache, aching, affront, agony, aspersion, atrocity, bad, bane, bankruptcy, befoulment, bereavement, blemish, blight, blow, breach, break, breakage, breakdown, brickbat, burn, chafe, check, chip, collapse, concussion, contempt, contumely, corruption, cost, crack, crack-up, crackle, cramp, craze, crime, crime against humanity, crippling, crying evil, cut, damage, dead loss, deadly sin, debit, defilement, delinquency, denial, denudation, deprivation, dereliction, despite, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, detriment, dilapidation, disablement, disadvantage, discomfiture, dispossession, disrepair, disservice, distress, divestment, dolor, drawback, dump, encroachment, enormity, error, evil, expense, failure, fault, felony, flash burn, flout, flouting, forfeit, forfeiture, fracture, fray, frazzle, gall, gash, genocide, gibe, great wrong, grief, grievance, gross injustice, guilty act, handicap, harm, havoc, heavy sin, hobbling, humiliation, hurt, hurting, ill, ill-treatment, ill-usage, ill-use, impairment, imposition, impropriety, incapacitation, incision, indignity, indiscretion, inexpiable sin, infection, infringement, iniquity, injustice, inroad, insult, jeer, jeering, laceration, lapse, lesion, liability, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, loss of ground, maiming, malefaction, malfeasance, maltreatment, malum, mayhem, minor wrong, miscarriage of justice, mischief, misdeed, misdemeanor, misery, misfeasance, mistreatment, mock, mockery, molestation, mortal sin, mortal wound, mutilation, nasty blow, nonfeasance, offense, omission, outrage, pain, pang, passion, peccadillo, peccancy, perdition, poison, pollution, prejudice, privation, puncture, put-down, raw deal, rent, rip, robbery, ruin, ruination, ruinousness, run, rupture, sabotage, sacrifice, scald, scathe, scoff, scorch, scrape, scratch, scuff, scurrility, second-degree burn, shock, sickening, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slash, slip, sore, sore spot, spasm, spoiling, spoliation, stab, stab wound, step backward, stress, stress of life, stripping, stroke, suffering, taking away, taunt, tear, tender spot, the worst, third-degree burn, throes, tort, total loss, toxin, transgression, trauma, trespass, trip, uncomplimentary remark, unutterable sin, venial sin, venom, vexation, violation, violence, weakening, woe, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench, wrong
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + iūs, iūris (“right, law”).
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External links
- Injury in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Injury in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
