injury
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
injury/ˈɪnʤəri/
▶noun (pl. injuries)
- 1 an instance of being injured.
- 2 the fact of being injured; harm or damage.
– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. injurie, from L. injuria ‘a wrong’.
'injury' also found in these Oxford entries:
acalculia
- actual bodily harm
- adhesion
- ambulance-chaser
- anosmia
- atonement
- atraumatic
- avenge
- barotrauma
- better
- bleed
- blind
- boo-boo
- bruise
- burn
- cabbage
- canker
- case
- causalgia
- collapse
- coma
- compensate
- compensation
- compound fracture
- contributory negligence
- cripple
- crock
- damage
- damnify
- danger
- dangerous
- dead leg
- despite
- disable
- erythema
- feign
- fibrosis
- forensic medicine
- fraud
- friendly fire
- frostbite
- gammy
- graze
- grievous bodily harm
- grudge
- guard
- haemophilia
- harm
- health
- histamine
