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Injury

Definition: Injury

Injury

Noun

1. Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

2. An accident that results in physical damage or hurt.

3. A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat.

4. An act that injures someone.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "injury" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Injury \In"ju*ry\, noun; plural Injuries. [from Old English expression injurie, from Latin expression injuria, from injurius injurious, wrongful, unjust; prefix in- not jus, juris, right,law,justice: compare to the French expression injure. See Just,]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Injury

DomainDefinition

Satire

INJURY, n. An offense next in degree of enormity to a slight. Source: Devil's Dictionary.

Business

Any material injury caused or threatened to Community industry. Source: European Union. (references)

Dream Interpretation

To dream of an injury being done you, signifies that an unfortunate occurrence will soon grieve and vex you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Economics

1. (USA) A finding by the U.S. International Trade Commission that an import is causing harm (material injury) or threatening to cause harm (material injury) to a U.S. industry...(If caused by sales to the U.S. at "less than fair value", it may be considered "dumping" and trigger "antidumping duties", or if it is caused by foreign subsidies or bounties, it may trigger "countervailing duties"). 2. A wrong or damage done to another, either in his person, rights, reputation, or property. 3. The invasion of any legally protected interest of another. (references)

Environment

Any physical or biological response to pollutants, such as a change in metabolism, reduced photosynthesis, leaf necrosis, premature leaf drop, or chlorosis. (references)

Medicine

Lesion:a pathological disturbance, such as an injury, an infection, a tumour; injury:1)hurt done to or damage suffered by the body;2)a wound of any kind; trauma:injury. Source: European Union. (references)

Tips from 1870

Usage: Accident, Injury. Accident is sometimes used incorrectly for injury. as "His accident was very painful." Source: Slips of Speech.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Injury

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Injury is damage or harm caused to the structure or function of the body caused by an outside agent or force, which may be physical or chemical.

See also: healing

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Injury."

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Synonyms: Injury

Synonyms: accidental injury (n), combat injury (n), harm (n), hurt (n), trauma (n), wound (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Injury

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Blemish

Noun: blemish, disfigurement, deformity; adactylism; flaw, defect; (imperfection) ; injury; (deterioration); spots on the sun; eyesore.

Deterioration

Impairment, inquination, injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath; perversion,impairment, inquination, injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath; perversion, prostitution, vitiation, discoloration, oxidation, pollution, defoedation, poisoning, venenation, leaven, contamination, canker, corruption, adulteration, alloy.

Evil

Outrage, wrong, injury, foul play; bad turn, ill turn; disservice, spoliation; grievance, crying evil.

Forgiveness

Verb: forgive, forgive and forget; pardon, condone, think no more of, let bygones be bygones, shake hands; forget an injury. excuse, pass over, overlook; wink at; (neglect); bear with; allow for, make allowances for; let one down easily, not be too hard upon, pocket the affront.

Inexpedience

Ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, outrage; misusage; injury; (damage); knockout drops.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Injury

English words defined with "injury": legal injurywhiplash injury. (references)
Specialty definitions using "injury": Abbreviated Injury Scale, Abducens Nerve Injury, accidental bodily injurybodily location of injurychronic injuryfatal injuryInjury Severity ScoreMyocardial Reperfusion InjuryOccupational injuryReperfusion Injury, repetitive strain injurySmoke Inhalation Injurytrifle injury. (references)
Etymologies containing "injury": injurious. (references)

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Modern Usage: Injury

DomainUsage

Screenplays

But you should know that sudden serious brain injury causes the victim to bite down hard (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

It's a nice night for a neck injury. (Home Alone 2: Lost in New York; writing credit: John Hughes)

Once the Planet is hurt, it gathers Spirit Energy to heal the injury. The amount of energy gathered depends on the size of the injury (Final Fantasy VII; writing credit: Kouze Ide; Kazushige Nojima)

Clever

Forgiveness is the best remedy for any injury. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Insect to Injury (1956)

Ignatz's Icy Injury (1916)

An Injury to One (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Injury

DomainTitle

References

  • The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Spinal Cord Injury (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Coping With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (Coping With...) (reference)

  • Confronting Traumatic Brain Injury : Devastation, Hope, and Healing (reference)

  • Medicine for lawyers III : the whiplash injury : materials prepared for a Continuing Legal Education seminar held in Vancouver, B.C. on May 3l, 1985 (reference)

  • Undertaking Qualitative Research: Concepts and Cases in Injury, Health an Social Life (reference)

  • Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 1992--S. 2949 : hearing before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, on S. 2949, to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the conduct of ex (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Bare Essentials Guide to Martial Arts Injury Care and Prevention (reference)

  • Medical School for Lawyers : Medical Evidence of Soft Tissue Injury (reference)

  • Use Your Head: Treatment of Head Injury (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Injury

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Photo Album: Injury

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These are various images of a patient being treated with hyperthermia. Whole body hyperthermia is a method to raise a patient's body temperature for the treatment of advanced cancer. This technique is based on laboratory studies that show cancer cells are more sensitive to heat injury than normal cells. Physicians induce hyperthermia using a high-flow water suit controlled by a microprocessor, a machine which closely monitors body temperature. The patient's body temperature is raised by the insulated build-up of metabolic (body) heat, plus by the heat delivered by the warm-water suit. Credit: Mike Mitchell (photographer).

Shown is a patient being treated with hyperthermia. Whole body hyperthermia is a method to raise a patient's body temperature for the treatment of advanced cancer. This technique is based on laboratory studies that show cancer cells are more sensitive to heat injury than normal cells. Physicians induce hyperthermia using a high-flow water suit controlled by a microprocessor, a machine which closely monitors body temperature. The patient's body temperature is raised by the insulated build-up of metabolic (body) heat, plus by the heat delivered by the warm-water suit. Credit: Mike Mitchell (photographer).

Nonfatal and fatal assaultive firearm-related injury rates for males aged 15-24 years, by quarter--United States, 1993-1997. Gun, bullet, shoot, crime, criminal, murder, homicide. Credit: CDC.

Sanitarians carrying out injury control activities. Credit: CDC.

Tetanus is induced by an exotoxin of the tetanus bacillus (Clostridium tetani), which grows anaerobically at site of injury. Tetanus is characterized by painful muscular contractions, primarily of the masseter, and other large muscles. Credit: CDC.

Young naturalist inspecting a horseshoe crab shell. The carapace was empty. If this was a live animal, picking up by tail could cause injury to the crab. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Progression of liver injury in alcoholic fibrosis. Credit: NIAA.

Plastic Surgery : Stages in Reconstruction of Maxillo-Facial Injury Modeled in Relief for Record and Guidance to Plastic Surgeon. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Fellow students watching two U.S. Army medical students attempt a diagnosis of a leg injury under charge of surgeon at Bellevue Hospital, affiliate of New York University medical school, as part of U.S. Army's specialized training course. Credit: Library of Congress.

Miscellaneous subjects. Man displaying scars from wounds or injury I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Injury
 

"Injury 2" by Liz Allen
Commentary: "Football."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Injury".

PlayCaption
Injure; injury; hurt; hurting; injures; boo-boo; discomfort; distress; gash; harm; nick; ouch; pain; painful; pang; sore; soreness; suffering; wound; .
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Injury

AuthorQuotation

Benjamin Franklin

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

Confucius

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

E. Nott

Abuse me as much as you will; it is often a benefit rather than an injury.

Marcus Aurelius

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Marcus T. Cicero

Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Publilius Syrus

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.
One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people.
One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Injury

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

And if such are found in our land at the beginning of the war, they shall be detained, without injury to their bodies or goods, until information be received by us, or by our chief justiciar, how the merchants of our land found in the land at war with us are treated; and if our men are safe there, the others shall be safe in our land. (reference)

John Locke

1690

The injury and the crime is equal, whether committed by the wearer of a crown, or some petty villain. (Second Treatise of Government)

US Declaration of Independence

1776

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. (reference)

Marbury v. Madison

1803

The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

As an exception, the admitted debts owing by persons having suffered injury from acts of war shall only be credited to the Creditor Clearing Office when the compensation due to the person concerned in respect of such injury shall have been paid. (reference)

Roe v. Wade

1973

A childless married couple (the Does), the wife not being pregnant, separately attacked the laws, basing alleged injury on the future possibilities of contraceptive failure, pregnancy, unpreparedness for parenthood, and impairment of the wife's health. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Injury

TitleAuthorQuote

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

My lord, you do me shameful injury Falsely to draw me in these vile suspects

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Injury

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Trauma, such as a head injury. (references)

These children have higher injury rates. (references)

However, it may occur without apparent injury. (references)

Business

In 1999 excessive speed contributed to 124 fatal crashes, 350 serious injury crashes and 848 minor injury crashes. (references)

Legge 626 calls for a set of rules and norms for organizations that regulate the prevention of injury and the responsibilities of employers. (references)

The chamber determines whether injury to the plaintiff has occurred and the appropriate measures for compensation, but the chamber can not rescind an awarded contract. (references)

Civil Liberties

Iran

Baha'is regularly are denied compensation for injury or criminal victimization. (references)

Angola

Fear of injury and death from landmines effectively imprisoned and impoverished entire communities. (references)

Mexico

Reports of injury to and harassment of undocumented migrants continued around the country during the year. (references)

Economic History

Saudi Arabia

Only one injury resulted from these blasts and the reasons behind them remain unexplained. (references)

Barbados

Specialization: International Business Corporations, Personal Injury, Family Law And Company Law. (references)

Sri Lanka

Tourists and foreign business representatives have not been terrorist targets but have suffered collateral injury during attacks on other targets. (references)

Human Rights

United Kingdom

The ombudsman supervises cases involving death or serious injury and may investigate other cases. (references)

Namibia

A hospital report showed that he was injured on the back, elbow, and hand but did not indicate the cause of injury. (references)

Qatar

The Shari'a courts have jurisdiction in family, inheritance, deportation, wrongful injury, and most other civil cases. (references)

Minorities

Iran

The legal system discriminates against minorities, awarding lower compensation awards in injury and death lawsuits and imposing heavier punishments than on Muslims. (references)

Germany

OPC statistics for 2000 indicated a 49 percent increase in the overall number of proven or suspected rightwing crimes committed in 2000 as compared with 1999 (10,037 in 1999 to 14,951 in 2000). The number of violent rightwing crimes (including killings, attempted killings, and attacks that result in bodily injury, arson, and bombings) rose more than 30 percent, from 746 in 1999 to 998 during 2000. The OPC reported that 50,900 persons were active in rightwing circles in 2000; including 36,500 members of rightwing political parties, 2,200 neo-Nazis, 4,200 members of other rightwing groups, and approximately 9,700 violence-prone individuals. (references)

Political Economy

CANADA

The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) is responsible for making final injury determinations. (references)

Trade

Philippines

As a general safeguard, the commissioner of the Bureau of Customs is authorized to raise tariffs to a level sufficient to prevent injury to the domestic industry. (references)

China

Indeed, China's anti-dumping procedures (for instance, China's methods of calculating prices and injury) appear incompatible with some aspects of the WTO Anti-dumping Agreement. (references)

Australia

This pricing is not a prohibited practice under international trade agreements, but remedial action may be taken where dumping causes (or threatens to cause) material injury to an Australian industry. (references)

Travel

Sri Lanka

A serious illness or injury might require evacuation to the nearest country where more comprehensive medical facilities are available, usually Singapore or Thailand. (references)

Turkey

Since the 1970's, urban and rural acts of terrorism throughout Turkey have caused loss of life and injury to government officials and civilians, including some foreign tourists. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Corporate Taxes: The following taxes are applicable to all legally registered corporations: Tax on corporate profits: 35 percent; National Contribution Tax: 1 percent; Personal Property Tax: 6 percent of the income of subsidiaries of foreign corporations and 12 percent of the income of Ivoirian firms; Payroll Taxes: 2.5 percent for local workers and 16 percent for foreign workers; Workers Compensation: 5 percent for family allowances, 2-5 percent toward industrial injury costs, and 1.8 percent pension contribution. (references)

Women

Central African Republic

Spousal abuse is considered a civil matter unless the injury is severe. (references)

Brunei

An assault resulting in serious injury is punishable by caning and a longer jail sentence. (references)

Rwanda

When the Government did become involved, such as in cases involving serious injury, the courts took such incidents seriously. (references)

Worker Rights

Cambodia

Work-related injury and health problems were common. (references)

Belarus

Under the decree, industrial injury suits also are to be covered by the Civil Code, rather than the Labor Code. (references)

Thailand

The rate of injury from industrial accidents has remained relatively constant over the last 10 years at 4.5 percent of the total work force. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war -- so called from his habit of wearing his hair short, whereas his enemy, the Cavalier, wore his long. There were other points of difference between them, but the fashion in hair was the fundamental cause of quarrel. The Cavaliers were royalists because the king, an indolent fellow, found it more convenient to let his hair grow than to wash his neck. This the Roundheads, who were mostly barbers and soap-boilers, deemed an injury to trade, and the royal neck was therefore the object of their particular indignation. Descendants of the belligerents now wear their hair all alike, but the fires of animosity enkindled in that ancient strife smoulder to this day beneath the snows of British civility.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Injury

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Walter Cronkite

Very good. Very good. I'm still hobbling along with my torn Achilles tendon. Tennis injury, not gout.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Injury

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur.

John Adams

1797-1801Any serious and permanent injury to commerce would not fail to produce the most embarrassing disorders.

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809Great injury, however, ensues to ourselves, as well as to others interested, from the distance to which prizes must be brought for adjudication and from the impracticability of bringing hither such as are not sea worthy.

James Monroe

1817-1825Spain had lost her authority over it, and, falling into the hands of adventurers connected with the savages, it was made the means of unceasing annoyance and injury to our Union in many of its most essential interests.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837In the exercise of that spirit of concession and conciliation which has distinguished the friends of our Union in all great emergencies, it is believed that this object may be effected without injury to any national interest.

James K. Polk

1845-1849Justice and sound policy forbid the Federal Government to foster one branch of industry to the detriment of another, or to cherish the interests of one portion to the injury of another portion of our common country.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Injury

"Injury" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.80% of the time. "Injury" is used about 4,539 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.8%4,5302,159
Noun (proper)0.11%5157,705
Noun (common)0.09%4175,879
                    Total100.00%4,539N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Injury

Expressions using "injury": abbreviated injury scale Abducens Nerve Injury accidental bodily injury accidental injury acute injury add insult to injury administering to children substances capable of causing injury AIS90 injury code blast injury bodily location of injury brain injury chronic injury cold injury combat injury Diffuse Axonal Injury do smb. injury fatal injury frost injury gas injury hearing injury heat injury industrial injury injury impairment scale injury severity score legal injury low temperature injury mechanical equipment injury Myocardial Reperfusion Injury otic blast injury overuse strain injury pediatric traumatic brain injury personal injury Reperfusion Injury repetitive strain injury serious injury Smoke Inhalation Injury trifle injury whiplash injury. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "injury": injury-affected, injury-curtailed, injury-decimated, injury-depleted, injury-detecting, injury-dogged, injury-enforced, injury-free, injury-hit, injury-list, injury-plagued, injury-prone, injury-ravaged, injury-related, injury-released, injury-ridden, injury-stricken, injury-time, injury-torn, injury-troubled, injury-weakened, injury-wrecked.

Ending with "injury": amenity-injury, ankle-injury, brain-injury, crush-injury, personal-injury, pseudo-injury, self-injury, shoulder-injury, spinal-injury.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Injury

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

knee injury

1,037

spinal injury

163

personal injury

935

hamstring injury

156

injury

688

eye injury

143

head injury

633

cincinnati personal injury attorney

142

brain injury

622

birth injury

124

spinal cord injury

481

sport injury

104

traumatic brain injury

463

wrist injury

104

sports injury

461

groin injury

102

personal injury lawyer

447

cincinnati personal injury lawyer

99

personal injury attorney

386

acl injury

98

shoulder injury

370

repetitive strain injury

95

back injury

365

personal injury law

94

foot injury

341

hand injury

88

self injury

311

closed head injury

85

rotator cuff injury

297

elbow injury

83

personal injury claim

225

work injury

72

personal injury settlement

219

injury lawyer

72

running injury

210

personal injury lawsuit

68

ankle injury

196

whiplash injury

67

neck injury

177

hip injury

63
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Injury

Language Translations for "injury"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

wond (wound). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

vrarje (pinch), plagosje, padrejtësi (inequity, iniquity, injustice, wrong), ofendim (grievance, indignity, insult, offence, wrong), fyerje (affront, contumely, displeasure, flout, grievance, indignity, insult, offence, opprobrium, resentment, umbrage, vituperation), dëmtim (damnification, defacement, defect, deterioration, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, failure, harm, hurt, impairment, lesion, Mar, wound), dëm (damage, Dent, detriment, disadvantage, harm, impairment, insalubrity, lesion, maleficence, mischief, mischievousness, noxiousness, prejudice, scathe, violence). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏غبن (inequity, injustice, unfairness), ‏ضرر (damage, detriment, devilry, disadvantage, harm, hurt, lesion, mal, malignancy, mis, prejudice, wrong), ‏خسارة (damage, disadvantage, doom, drain, leakage, loss, miscarriage, mischief, perdition, prejudice, ruination, sacrifice, seep, seepage, spoilage, wastage), ‏جرح (break, cut, flesh wound, gash, hurt, incision, injure, lacerate, laceration, lesion, maim, make mischief, maul, pierce, shoot, slash, stab, sting, wing, wound, wounding), ‏إهانة (affront, crinkle, degradation, despite, dishonor, dishonour, flout, indignity, insolence, insult, mortification, offence, reflection, reflexion, slap, slur, tawdriness, umbrage), ‏أذى (disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour, hardship, harm, hurst, injustice, insult, lesion, mayhem, trauma, violence, wickedness, zenana). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

щета (damage, prejudice), травма (trauma), вреда (damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, harm, hurt, ill, mischief, noxiousness, prejudice, scathe, shock), осакатяване (crippling, dismemberment, maiming, mayhem, mutilation), ощетяване, обида (affront, cut, dishonor, dishonour, hurt, indignity, insult, offence, offense, outrage, resentment, slight, slur, umbrage, wound, wrong), несправедливост (grievance, inequity, injustice, raw deal), нараняване (trauma), противоправно деяние, противоправно действие, правонарушение, поражение (backdown, baffle, beating, defeat, failure, knockout, lesion, overturn, repulse, reverse, smash, walloping, whipping), повреда (breakdown, conk, damage, defect, failure, fault, flaw, hurt, lesion, mischief, scathe, trouble), пакост (damage, diablerie, harm, mischief). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

ferida (wound). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

伤害 (hurting, injure, injured, Injuries, Injuring), (a wound, begin, create, cut, inaugurate, initiate, start, trauma), (injure, wound). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zranìní (damnification, hurt, wound), urážka (affront, brickbat, contumely, insult, offence, outrage, violence), úraz (accident, trauma), škoda (damage, detriment, harm, too bad). (various references)

   

Danish

  

sår (wound). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

wond (wound), verwonding (wound), kwetsuur (harm, wound), blessure (wound). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

vundo (wound). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

sár (sore, ulcer, wound). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

صدمه (Concussion, Disservice, Harm, Hurt, Indemnity, Maim, Scathe, Shock), اسیب (Damage, Harm, Hurt, Inconvenience, Lesion, Mar, Strain, Tort, Trauma). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vioittuma (lesion), vamma (lesion), vahinko (damage, harm, loss, misadventure, misfortune), ruumiinvamma (bodily injury, somatic injury), haitta (detriment, disadvantage, drawback, handicap, harm, trouble). (various references)

   

French

  

blessure, préjudice. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

wûne (wound), blessuere (wound), blessearring (wound). (various references)

   

German

  

Verletzung (breach, harm, hurt, hurting, infraction, injuring, intrusion, laceration, lesion, offending, transgression, violation, wound, wounding), Beschädigung (damage). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βλάβη (damage, detriment, harm, hurt, impairment, maleficence, mischief, trauma, vitiation), κάκωση (infestation, lesion). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

פגיעה (blow, damage, detriment, harm, hit, hurt, impact, incidence, insult, offence, shot), פציעה (bruise, hurt, wounding), פצע (bruise, cut, hurt, slash, sore, wound), נזק (damage, detriment, harm, indemnity, loss, maleficence, noisomemess). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sebesülés (casualty, wound), sérülés (batter, bruise, casualty, damage, hurt, lesion, trauma, traumata, traumatism), kár (damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, expense, harm, ill, impairment, loss, mischief, mischievousness, nuisance, pity, toll, tort). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

sár (wound). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mudarat (disadvantage, harm, to fail, to miscarry), luka-luka. (various references)

   

Italian

  

ferita (hack, harmed, hurt, wound). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(bruise, cut, gash, hurt, scar, scratch, weak point, wound). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

がいどく (harm, mischief, poison, virus), がいあく (evil, harm), がい (cap, congratulatory feeling, cover, criminal investigation, damage, evil influence, harm, hundred quintillion, hundred trillion, lid, meaning of a picture, obstinacy, scythe, self-will, suitability, victory song), きず (blemish, bruise, cut, defect, flaw, gash, hurt, scar, scratch, weak point, wound), きがい (danger, harm, steepness of a mountain, strong spirit), きしょう (badge, beauty spot, climate, damage, disposition, emblem, getting out of bed, happy laughter, insignia, medal, memorizing, rare, rising, scarce, temperament, unexpected victory, victory by uncommon stratagem, vow, weather), きそん (assassination, damage, existing, returning to one's village, waste), しょうがい (accident, assault, casualty, commit suicide, damage, disorder, hindrance, impediment, obstacle, one's lifetime, public relations, wound), しょうそう (fretfulness, impatience, irritation, prematurity, uneasiness, wound, youth), しょうい (ensign, lieutenant, minor differences, second lieutenant, subcommittee, wound), しょう (actor, artisan, award, bruise, buy, call, carpenter, catch, chapter, commander, cut, destroy, drink, eat, gash, general, government, hurt, idea, illness, important point, label, leader, make up for, means, mechanic, medal, phenomenon, prize, put on, quotient, ride in, scar, scratch, section, send for, take, to be burdened with, to carry on back or shoulder, upper part, weak point, wear, workman, wound), そんがい (damage, loss), そんしょう (country house, countryside, damage, honorary title, village), ふしょう (disagreement, disapproval, disgraceful, dissent, ill-omened, inauspicious, incompetent, my humble self, my unworthy self, objection, ominous, refusal, scandalous, unidentified, unknown, wound, your humble servant), けが (hurt). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

상해 (Injuries, Shanghai). (various references)

   

Manx

  

uail (disservice, fine, penalty, privation, ruination), skielley (detriment, harm, hurt, mischief, scathe, wrong, wrong harm), olk (bad, bad-hearted, bad-looking, evil, ill, lousy, mischief, morally wrong, naughtiness, truculence, unfavourable, vice, vicious, wicked), lhott (gash, lesion, trauma, wound), jeeyl (damage, for damage see jeeill, harmfulness, havoc, prejudice, vandalism), gortey (dearth, destitution, famine, hurt, injure, scarceness, smart, starvation), assee (harm, hurt, mischief, trespass), aggair (aggression, iniquity, injustice, violation). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

skade (bruise, damage, detriment, harm, hurt, injure), krenkelse (invasion). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

herida (wound), erida (wound). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

injuryay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

ferimento (harm, hurt, ill feeling, sore, soreness, wound), ferida (bed sore, bite, blain, cut, hurt, puncture, raw, slash, sore, wound, wounded). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

stricãciune (corruption, damage, deterioration, harm), ranã (cut, gall, hurt, raw, scar, slash, sore, stab, wound), rãnire (wound), panã (arrow, break down, chock, cleat, cotter, failure, feather, Gib, jaw, peg, pen, pick, pinion, plug, plume, puncture, quill, quill pen, Spike, wedge), pagubã (cost, detriment, disavantage, grievance, havoc, hurt, loss, mischief, prejudice, spoil), ofensã (cut, humiliation, indignity, mortification, offence, sin, slap, slur, wound), leziune (lesion, wound), jignire (abuse, affront, cut, humiliation, hurt, insult, offence, rub, wound, wrong), detriment (detriment), daunã (damage, disservice, ill), avarie (average, break down, casualty, damage, failure, fault, wreck). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

повреждение (damage, fault, impairment, labefaction, lesion, mischief, trauma). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

eucoir (injustice, wrong), dolaidh (damage, harm, loss), doileas, dochann (hurt), dochair (damage, hurt), deireas (damage, harm), beud (harm, hurt, mischief), ana-cothrom (injustice), aimhleas (harm, hurt). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

rana (cut, sore, trauma, wound), povreda (encroachment, harm, trauma, violation, wound), ozleda (lesion, wound). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

herida (bruise, crippling, hurt, scotch, sore, stab, wound, wounded), lesión (hurt, lesion, wound). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

soro (sore, ulcer, wound). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

oförrätt (hurt, injustice, wrong). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

súgat (wound). (various references)

   

Thai

  

อาการบาดเจ็บ, อันตราย (nasty). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

incitme, zarar (average, bad, cost, damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, encroachment, evil, forfeit, harm, havoc, hurt, loss, maleficence, mischief, prejudice, ravage, sacrifice, scathe, wreckage), yara (bruise, canker, cut, hurt, lesion, raw, scotch, sore, trauma, ulcer, wound), kırma (break, breakage, breaking, crossbred, fracture, half breed, hybrid, laceration, mestizo, mongrel, pleat, unblooded, underbred), hasar (average, damage, depredation, detriment, harm, havoc, mischief, scathe, spoilage, wreckage). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

цяke (offence). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

шкода (breakage, damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, harm, hurt, ill, loss, mischief, noxiousness, scathe), образа (abuse, affront, contumely, dishonor, dishonour, dudgeon, grievance, grouch, indignity, insult, obloquy, offence, offense, opprobrium, outrage, resentment, snub, umbrage, wound), поранення. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự vi phạm quyền lợi, sự làm tổn hại, sự làm hại (disservice), sự làm hỏng điều hại, sự đối xử bất công, chỗ hỏng, điều tổn hại (wrong). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

sar.hau (affront, insult), sar.had (affront, disgrace, insult), niwed (damage, harm), murn (murder), camwri (wrong), cam (crooked, step, wrong, wry), abwth (fright). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

loob (accident, bad luck, wound). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Injury

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

1. gig. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

culpa, culpae, culpam, deminoratione, iniuria, iniuriae, iniuriam, iniurias, iniuriis, injûria, injûriam, injuria, malefacere, malefaciendi, malefaciendum, malefacientibus, malefacientium, malefacit, malefaciunt, malefactoribus, malefecerint, malefecerunt, malum, noxa, noxae, offensa, plaga, plagae, plagam, plagarum, plagas, plagatus, plagis. (various references)

Avestan200-600

tbaêshanghô. (various references)

Old English450-1100

bealo. (various references)

Old French900-1400

mahaigne. (various references)

Anglo-French1100-1600

injurie. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Injury

Derivations

Words ending with "injury": noninjury, reinjury. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Injury" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ingry, inguiry, iniuria, injoy, Injoyd, injuly, injur, injurier, inqury, Xianju. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Injury"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "injury" (pronounced i"njerē)
5i" n j er ēgingery.
3-j er ēdrudgery, forgery, menagerie, Neurosurgery, perjury, surgery.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Injury

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-j-n-r-u-y"

-2 letters: jury, ruin.

-3 letters: jin, jun, rin, run, urn, yin.

-4 letters: in, nu, un.

 Words containing the letters "i-j-n-r-u-y"
 

+1 letter: jurying.

 

+2 letters: reinjury.

 

+3 letters: noninjury.

 

+4 letters: journeying.

 

+5 letters: injuriously.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Historic
12. Quotations: Fiction
13. Quotations: Non-fiction
14. Quotations: Spoken
15. Quotations: Speeches
16. Usage Frequency
17. Expressions
18. Expressions: Internet
19. Translations: Modern
20. Translations: Ancient
21. Derivations
22. Rhymes
23. Anagrams
24. Bibliography


  

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