injury (ˈɪndʒərɪ
)
Definitions
noun
- physical damage or hurt
- a specific instance of this ⇒
a leg injury
- harm done to a reputation
- law a violation or infringement of another person's rights that causes him harm and is actionable at law
- an obsolete word for insult
Word Origin
C14: from Latin injūria injustice, wrong, from injūriōsus acting unfairly, wrongful, from in-C14: from Latin injustice, wrong, from acting unfairly, wrongful, from 1 + right + jūs rightSynonyms
View thesaurus entry=
harm,
suffering,
damage,
ill,
hurt,
disability,
misfortune,
affliction,
impairment,
disfigurement,
Translations
- British English:
injury
An injury is damage done to a person's body.The passengers escaped serious injury.ˈɪndʒərɪ NOUN The passengers escaped serious injury.
- Spanish:
lesión
nf
- French:
blessure
nf
- German:
Verletzung
nf
- Chinese: 伤害 n
- Arabic: إِصَابَةٌ n
- Portuguese: ferimento nm
- Russian: ущерб nm
- Croatian: ozljeda nf
- Czech: zranění nnt
- Danish: skade nutr
- Dutch: verwonding nf
- Finnish: vamma n
- Greek: τραύμα nnt
- Italian: lesione nf
- Japanese: 怪我 n
- Korean: 부상 n
- Norwegian: skade nm
- Polish: rana nf
- Brazilian Portuguese: ferimento nm
- European Spanish:
lesión
nf
- Swedish: skada nutr
- Thai: ความบาดเจ็บ n
- Turkish: yara n
- Vietnamese: vết thương n
Usage examples
Even so, she was a remarkably fine-looking woman... `A strange injury.
, The Touch of Innocents (1994)I've been advised to take time off training to recover from injury.
Cycling Weekly (2004)Two minutes after a third goal was scored (77th minute), Michael Brown walked off the pitch with a groin injury.
Irish Times (2002)In extreme cases, an employee may seek a more significant remedy by bringing a court action for personal injury.
Glasgow Herald (2001)They could not seem to take a trick, though, as insult was added to injury when a cholera epidemic drove them out.
, THE MEDICAL MYSTERIES E-OMNIBUS (2001)