injury
Syllables: in·ju·ryUK/ˈɪn.d͡ʒə.ɹi//ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ.i/
injury noun: damage to the body of a living thing.
Noun
injury (countable and uncountable, plural injuries)
- Damage to the body of a living thing.
- The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.
- Minor injuries such as cuts and abrasions are cleaned and bandaged on site; serious injuries require an ambulance call.
- Synonyms:
- trauma
- Other forms of damage sustained by a living thing, e.g. psychologically.
- The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.
- Slander is an injury to the character.
- Injustice.
Verb
injury (third-person singular simple present injuries, present participle injurying, simple past and past participle injuried)
injury meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
injury in Hindi
- damage or violation
- चोट coṭ, आघात āghāt, अपकार apkār
injury in Tamil
- காயம்
injury in Marathi
- दुखापत
injury in Urdu
- damage or violation
- چوٹ coṭ
More languagesFewer languages
- injury in Bengali
- আঘাত aghat, সদমা śodoma, জখম jokhom
- injury in Telugu
- అపకారము apakāramu
- injury in Malayalam
- പീഡനം, പരുക്ക്, ദ്രോഹം, ഹാനി
- injury in Kannada
- ಗಾಯ, ಪೆಟ್ಟು, ಕೆಡುಕು, ಹಾನಿ
- injury in Punjabi
- ਸੱਟ saṭṭa, سٹ saṭṭ
- injury in Gujarati
- ઈજા, ઇજા
- injury in Odia
- ଆଘାତ, କ୍ଷତ
- injury in Sanskrit
- द्रुह् druh
- injury in Assamese
- ঘা gha, ঘাউ ghau
- injury in Nepali
- चोट coṭ
- injury in Tagalog
- kapinsalaan
- injury in Arabic
- جُرْح jurḥ, إِصَابَة ʔiṣāba
- injury in Malay
- kecederaan
- injury in Indonesian
- luka, cedera
- injury in Persian
- آسیب âsib, جراحت jerâhat
- injury in Thai
- อันตราย an-dtà-raai
- injury in Vietnamese
- thương tích, thương tật
- injury in Myanmar
- အနာ a.na
Examples of injury in a sentence
- The full extent of my injuries did not become evident until they tried to move me.
- The patient was unable to adduct his thumb after the injury.
- My brother has been deaf since sustaining injuries in the war.
Synonyms of injury
Forms of injury
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | injuries |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | injuries |
| present participle | injurying |
| past participle | injuried |
| past | injuried |
Origin of 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.
Words formed from injury
- acute kidney injury
- add insult to injury
- add salt to injury
- cryoinjury
- heap insult on injury
- injury current
- injury potential
- injury-prone
- injury time
- insult to injury
- microinjury
- moral injury
- needlestick injury
- noninjury
- personal injury
- postinjury
- preinjury
- pressure injury
- psychological injury
- reinjury
- repetitive strain injury
- self-injury
- traumatic brain injury
- vaccine injury
Phrases with injury
Questions about injury
- What does injury mean?
- Injury means damage to the body of a living thing.
- What is injury in Hindi?
- Injury in Hindi is चोट (coṭ), आघात (āghāt), अपकार (apkār). See Injury meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is injury?
- Injury can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce injury?
- Injury is pronounced /ˈɪn.d͡ʒə.ɹi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of injury?
- The plural of injury is injuries.
Words near injury in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: injury (page history and authors); injury (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); injury (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); అపకారము (Telugu) (page history and authors); injury (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); injury (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); سٹ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); injury (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); injury (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ঘা (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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