What's The Definition Of Injury?
[n] an act that injures someone
[n] an accident that results in physical damage or hurt
[n] a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
[n] any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
Synonyms | Synonyms for Injury: accidental injury |
combat injury |
harm |
hurt |
trauma |
wound
Related Terms | Find terms related to Injury: 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 |
crackle |
crack-up |
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
See Also | accident |
actus reus |
bite |
bleeding |
blighty wound |
break |
bruise |
bump |
burn |
concussion |
contusion |
cryopathy |
dislocation |
disservice |
electric shock |
flesh wound |
fracture |
frostbite |
haemorrhage |
health problem |
hemorrhage |
ill health |
ill service |
ill turn |
insect bite |
intravasation |
lesion |
loss |
misconduct |
mutilation |
personnel casualty |
pinch |
pull |
rupture |
spoil |
spoilage |
spoiling |
sting |
strain |
twist |
unhealthiness |
wale |
weal |
welt |
wheal |
whiplash |
whiplash injury |
wound |
wrench |
wrongdoing |
wrongful conduct
Injury In Webster's Dictionary
\In"ju*ry\, n.; pl. {Injuries}. [OE. injurie, L. injuria,
fr. injurius injurious, wrongful, unjust; pref. in- not +
jus, juris, right,law,justice: cf. F. injure. See {Just}, a.]
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.
For he that doeth injury shall receve that he did evil.
--Wyclif(Col.
iii. 25).
Many times we do injury to a cause by dwelling on
trifling arguments. --I. Watts.
Riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury
and outrage. --Milton.
Note: Injury in morals and jurisprudence is the intentional
doing of wrong. --Fleming.
Syn: Harm; hurt; damage; loss; impairment; detriment; wrong;
evil; injustice.
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