injury
English
Etymology
From Middle English injurie, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + iūs, iūris (“right, law”).
Pronunciation
Noun
injury (countable and uncountable, plural injuries)
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:injury
Translations
wound — see wound
damage or violation
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Verb
injury (third-person singular simple present injuries, present participle injurying, simple past and past participle injuried)
- (obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821: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.
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Further reading
- injury in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- injury in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Middle English
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