injury

From Middle English injurie, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + iūs, iūris (“right, law”). Doublet of injuria.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.d͡ʒə.ɹi/, /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ.i/, /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɹi/

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injury (countable and uncountable, plural injuries)

1. Damage to the body of a living thing.

   The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.

2. Other forms of damage sustained by a living thing, e.g. psychologically.
3. The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.

   Slander is an injury to the character.

4. (archaic) Injustice.

• See also Thesaurus:injury

• injure
• injurious

• damage
• detriment
• evil
• harm
• hurt
• impairment
• injustice
• loss
• mischief
• wrong

injury (third-person singular simple present injuries, present participle injurying, simple past and past participle injuried)

1. (obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     II.12:

     The best of us doth not so much feare to wrong him, as he doth to injurie his neighbour, his kinsman, or his master.

• “injury”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “injury”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• Ryūjin

injury

1. Alternative form of injurie