injury
Injury is defined as harm to a person or thing.
(noun)- An example of an injury is breaking your leg in a soccer game.
- An example of an injury is hurting someone’s reputation.
See injury in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun pl. injuries
- physical harm or damage to a person, property, etc.
- an injurious act; specif.,
- an offense against a person's feelings, dignity, etc.
- loss in value inflicted on a business, reputation, etc.
- a violation of rights; wrong
- Obsolete an insult
Origin: ME iniurie < L injuria < injurius, wrongful, unjust < in-, not + jus (gen. juris), right, justice: see just
See injury in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun pl. in·ju·ries
- Damage or harm done to or suffered by a person or thing: escaped from the accident without injury; a scandal that did considerable injury to the campaign.
- A particular form of hurt, damage, or loss: a leg injury.
- Law Violation of the rights of another party for which legal redress is available. See Synonyms at injustice.
- Obsolete An insult.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English injurie
Origin: , from Anglo-Norman
Origin: , from Latin iniūria, a wrong, injustice
Origin: , from
Origin: feminine of iniūrius, unjust
Origin: : in-, not; see in-1
Origin: + iūs, iūr-, law; see yewes- in Indo-European roots
.See injury in Ologies
Injury
See also pain.
the process or act of pelting with stones, sometimes as a form of execution.
octogild
Anglo-Saxon Law. payment for an injury, calculated at eight times its real or estimated value.
1. any abnormal condition, either pathological or psychological, caused by wound or injury, either physical or psychological.
2. the trauma, wound, or injury itself. —traumatic, adj.
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