injury

English Online Dictionary. What means injury‎? What does injury mean?

English

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.d͡ʒə.ɹi/, /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ.i/, /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɹi/
• Hyphenation: in‧ju‧ry

Noun

injury (countable and uncountable, plural injuries)

1. Damage to the body of a living thing.

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.

4. (archaic) Injustice.

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• See also Thesaurus:injury

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Verb

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

1. (transitive, obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
   • 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.

Further reading

• “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.

Anagrams

• Ryūjin

Middle English

Noun

injury

1. Alternative form of injurie