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injury

noun · verb · 10 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈɪn.d͡ʒə.ɹi/
  • UK: /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɹi/
  • US: /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ.i/
  • US: /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɹi/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • South-Asia: /ˈɪɲdʒʊri/
  • CMU ARPABET: IH1 N JH ER0 IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Damage to the body of a living thing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • 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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: trauma

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: condition

2

noun

Meaning 2

Other forms of damage sustained by a living thing, e.g. psychologically.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • Slander is an injury to the character.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Injustice.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: law

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

To wrong, to injure.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus

Narrower terms: wrong, legal injury, damage

7

noun

Meaning 7

an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus

Narrower terms: disservice, ill service, ill turn, spoil, spoiling, spoilage

8

noun

Meaning 8

an accident that results in physical damage or hurt

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: accidental injury

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: accident

Narrower terms: concussion, mutilation

9

noun

Meaning 9

a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: wound, combat injury

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: personnel casualty, loss

Narrower terms: blighty wound, flesh wound

10

noun

Meaning 10

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: hurt, harm, trauma

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: ill health, unhealthiness, health problem

Narrower terms: brain damage, birth trauma, blast trauma, bleeding, hemorrhage, haemorrhage, blunt trauma, bruise, contusion, bump, burn, dislocation, electric shock, fracture, break, frostbite, cryopathy, intravasation, penetrating trauma, penetrating injury, pinch, rupture, sting, bite, insect bite, strain, whiplash, whiplash injury, wale, welt, weal, wheal, wound, lesion, wrench, twist, pull

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

182 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: wond — damage or violation
  • Albanian: lëndim — damage or violation
  • Arabic: جُرْح (jurḥ) — damage or violation
  • Arabic: إِصَابَة (ʔiṣāba) — damage or violation
  • Arabic: إِصَابَة (ʔiṣāba) — damage or violation
  • Arabic: صَقْعَة (ṣagʕa) — damage or violation
  • Arabic: تَعْويرة (taʕwīra) — damage or violation
  • Armenian: վնաս (vnas) — damage or violation
  • Armenian: վնասվածք (vnasvackʻ) — damage or violation
  • Asturian: lesión — damage or violation
  • Asturian: firida — damage or violation
  • Asturian: mancadura — damage or violation
  • Azerbaijani: korlanma — damage or violation
  • Azerbaijani: zərər — damage or violation
  • Azerbaijani: xəsarət — damage or violation
  • Azerbaijani: yara — damage or violation
  • Azerbaijani: zədə — damage or violation
  • Bashkir: яра (yara) — damage or violation
  • Bashkir: йәрәхәт (yərəxət) — damage or violation
  • Belarusian: ра́на (rána) — damage or violation
  • Belarusian: тра́ўма (tráwma) — damage or violation
  • Belarusian: пашко́джанне (paškódžannje) — damage or violation
  • Bengali: আঘাত (aghat) — damage or violation
  • Bengali: সদমা (śodoma) — damage or violation
  • Bengali: জখম (jokhom) — damage or violation
  • Bulgarian: щета́ (štetá) — damage or violation
  • Bulgarian: вреда́ (vredá) — damage or violation
  • Bulgarian: ра́на (rána) — damage or violation
  • Burmese: အနာ (a.na) — damage or violation
  • Catalan: ferida — damage or violation
  • Catalan: lesió — damage or violation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 受傷 /受伤 (shòushāng) — damage or violation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 負傷 /负伤 (fùshāng) — damage or violation
  • Czech: urážka — damage or violation
  • Czech: zranění — damage or violation
  • Czech: úraz — damage or violation
  • Danish: sår — damage or violation
  • Dutch: verwonding — damage or violation
  • Dutch: letsel — damage or violation
  • Dutch: belediging — damage or violation
  • Dutch: verongelijking — damage or violation
  • Dutch: schade — damage or violation
  • Dutch: nadeel — damage or violation
  • Dutch: onrecht — damage or violation
  • Esperanto: vundo — damage or violation
  • Estonian: vigastus — damage or violation
  • Faroese: sár — damage or violation
  • Finnish: vamma — damage or violation
  • Finnish: loukkaantuminen — damage or violation
  • French: blessure — damage or violation
  • West-Frisian: wûne — damage or violation
  • Galician: ferida — damage or violation
  • Galician: lesión — damage or violation
  • Georgian: დაშავება (dašaveba) — damage or violation
  • Georgian: ზიანი (ziani) — damage or violation
  • Georgian: ზარალი (zarali) — damage or violation
  • Georgian: ვნება (vneba) — damage or violation
  • German: Verletzung — damage or violation
  • German: Wunde — damage or violation
  • German: Verwundung — damage or violation
  • Greek: ζημία (zimía) — damage or violation
  • Greek: τραυματισμός (travmatismós) — damage or violation
  • Haitian Creole: blesi — damage or violation
  • Hebrew: פְּצִיעָה (p'tsi'á) — damage or violation
  • Hebrew: חַבָּלָה (ẖabbalá) — damage or violation
  • Hindi: चोट (coṭ) — damage or violation
  • Hindi: आघात (āghāt) — damage or violation
  • Hindi: अपकार (apkār) — damage or violation
  • Hungarian: sérülés — damage or violation
  • Icelandic: sár — damage or violation
  • Indonesian: luka — damage or violation
  • Indonesian: cedera — damage or violation
  • Ingrian: pahapäivä — damage or violation
  • Irish: gortú — damage or violation
  • Italian: ferita — damage or violation
  • Italian: danno — damage or violation
  • Italian: lesione — damage or violation
  • Japanese: 傷害 (shōgai) — damage or violation
  • Japanese: 負傷 (fushō) — damage or violation
  • Kazakh: жара (jara) — damage or violation
  • Kazakh: жарақат (jaraqat) — damage or violation
  • Khmer: របួស (rɔɔrɔbuəh) — damage or violation
  • Korean: 상해 (sanghae) — damage or violation
  • Korean: 부상 (busang) — damage or violation
  • Central Kurdish: برین (brîn) — damage or violation
  • Kyrgyz: жаракат (jarakat) — damage or violation
  • Lao: ແຜ (phǣ) — damage or violation
  • Lao: ບາດ (bāt) — damage or violation
  • Latin: vulnus — damage or violation
  • Latin: plaga — damage or violation
  • Latin: noxia — damage or violation
  • Latvian: pārestība — damage or violation
  • Lithuanian: žala — damage or violation
  • Luhya: esidonda — damage or violation
  • Macedonian: повреда (povreda) — damage or violation
  • Macedonian: рана (rana) — damage or violation
  • Malay: kecederaan — damage or violation
  • Manx: aggair — damage or violation
  • Māori: wharanga — damage or violation
  • Māori: wharatanga — damage or violation
  • Māori: uruhua — damage or violation
  • Middle English: injurie — damage or violation
  • Middle English: noysaunce — damage or violation
  • Middle English: hurt — damage or violation
  • Mongolian: хор (xor) — damage or violation
  • Mongolian: гэмтэл (gemtel) — damage or violation
  • Nepali: चोट (coṭ) — damage or violation
  • Norwegian Bokmål: skade — damage or violation
  • Old Saxon: wunda — damage or violation
  • Papiamentu: erida — damage or violation
  • Persian: آسیب (âsib) — damage or violation
  • Persian: جراحت (jerâhat) — damage or violation
  • Polish: szkoda — damage or violation
  • Polish: uraz — damage or violation
  • Polish: kontuzja — damage or violation
  • Portuguese: ferida — damage or violation
  • Portuguese: lesão — damage or violation
  • Romanian: rană — damage or violation
  • Russian: ра́на (rána) — damage or violation
  • Russian: тра́вма (trávma) — damage or violation
  • Russian: поврежде́ние (povreždénije) — damage or violation
  • Russian: ране́ние (ranénije) — damage or violation
  • Sanskrit: द्रुह् (druh) — damage or violation
  • Scottish Gaelic: ciùrradh — damage or violation
  • Scottish Gaelic: leònadh — damage or violation
  • Scottish Gaelic: milleadh — damage or violation
  • Scottish Gaelic: cron — damage or violation
  • Serbo-Croatian: по̏вреда — damage or violation
  • Serbo-Croatian: по̏вриједа — damage or violation
  • Serbo-Croatian: ра̏на — damage or violation
  • Serbo-Croatian: о̏зледа — damage or violation
  • Serbo-Croatian: о̏зљеда — damage or violation
  • Serbo-Croatian: pȍvreda — damage or violation
  • Serbo-Croatian: pȍvrijeda — damage or violation
  • Serbo-Croatian: rȁna — damage or violation
  • Serbo-Croatian: ȍzleda — damage or violation
  • Serbo-Croatian: ȍzljeda — damage or violation
  • Slovak: urážka — damage or violation
  • Slovene: poškodba — damage or violation
  • Southern Altai: јара (ǰara) — damage or violation
  • Spanish: herida — damage or violation
  • Spanish: lesión — damage or violation
  • Spanish: lastimadura — damage or violation
  • Spanish: lisiadura — damage or violation
  • Sranan Tongo: soro — damage or violation
  • Swahili: afa — damage or violation
  • Swahili: jiraha — damage or violation
  • Swahili: jeraha — damage or violation
  • Swedish: skada — damage or violation
  • Tagalog: kapinsalaan — damage or violation
  • Tajik: осеб (oseb) — damage or violation
  • Tajik: ҷароҳат (jarohat) — damage or violation
  • Tarifit: ayezzim — damage or violation
  • Tatar: җәрәхәт (cäräxät) — damage or violation
  • Thai: อันตราย (an-dtà-raai) — damage or violation
  • Tibetan: སྐྱོན (skyon) — damage or violation
  • Turkish: zarar — damage or violation
  • Ottoman Turkish: ضرر (zarar) — damage or violation
  • Ottoman Turkish: زیان (ziyan) — damage or violation
  • Ottoman Turkish: مضرت (mazarrat) — damage or violation
  • Turkmen: şikes — damage or violation
  • Ukrainian: пошко́дження (poškódžennja) — damage or violation
  • Ukrainian: ра́на (rána) — damage or violation
  • Ukrainian: тра́вма (trávma) — damage or violation
  • Urdu: چوٹ (coṭ) — damage or violation
  • Uyghur: جاراھەت (jarahet) — damage or violation
  • Uzbek: jarohat — damage or violation
  • Vietnamese: thương tích — damage or violation
  • Vietnamese: thương tật — damage or violation
  • Welsh: anaf — damage or violation
  • Welsh: anafiad — damage or violation
  • Welsh: anap — damage or violation
  • Welsh: cam — damage or violation
  • Welsh: camwy — damage or violation
  • Welsh: niwed — damage or violation
  • Welsh: sarhad — damage or violation
  • Yiddish: וווּנד (vund) — damage or violation
  • Yiddish: שאָדן (shodn) — damage or violation
  • Yoruba: ìpalára — damage or violation
  • Yucatec Maya: loob — damage or violation
  • Zazaki: xesar vinen — damage or violation
  • Spanish: injuria — the violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests
Real reading context

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