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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• Hyphenation: in‧ju‧ry

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.

   He got a shoulder injury in the nets three days before the match.

   • 2017 February 17, Dana Santas, “Recovering from surgery or stress? Yoga can help”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Whether you need to recover from a stressful day, a strenuous workout or even an injury or surgery, restorative yoga may be just the thing for you.

   • 2022 August 10, Melanie Radzicki McManus, “How to avoid soft tissue injuries, according to experts”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Soft tissue injuries are the bane of any physically active person. They are the most common injuries in sport, can be difficult to heal and often reoccur, according to Sports Medicine Australia.

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

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

1. (transitive, 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.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “injury”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• Ryūjin

injury

1. alternative form of injurie