'Injury' definitions:
Definition of 'injury'
From: WordNet
noun
Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. [syn: injury, hurt, harm, trauma]
noun
An accident that results in physical damage or hurt [syn: injury, accidental injury]
noun
A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat [syn: wound, injury, combat injury]
noun
An act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage
noun
Wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted
Definition of 'Injury'
From: GCIDE
- Injury \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 hurt done to a person or thing; detriment to, 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. [1913 Webster]
- For he that doeth injury shall receive that that he did evil. --Wyclif(Col. iii. 25). [1913 Webster]
- Many times we do injury to a cause by dwelling on trifling arguments. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- Riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Injury in morals and jurisprudence is the intentional doing of wrong. --Fleming.
- Syn: Harm; hurt; damage; loss; impairment; detriment; wrong; evil; injustice. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'injury'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- crack-up,
- crackle,
- 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