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Definition of Injury

1. Noun. Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc..

2. Noun. An accident that results in physical damage or hurt.

3. Noun. A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat.

4. Noun. An act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage.

5. Noun. Wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted.

Definition of Injury

1. n. 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.

Definition of Injury

1. Noun. Any damage 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. ¹

2. Verb. (obsolete) To wrong, to injure. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Injury

1. harm inflicted or suffered [n -RIES]

Medical Definition of Injury

1. The damage or wound of trauma. Origin: L. Injuria, fr. In-neg. + jus (jur-), right (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Injury

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Literary usage of Injury

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Law of Railroads by Horace Gay Wood (1885)
"but for all probable future disability in that respect.1 If the injury is of such a character as of itself establishes the incapacity of the plaintiff to ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The first case is where the injury is caused by reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery or plant connected employer and ..."

3. The Surgical Clinics of North America by Stanley P. L. Leong (1922)
"He was "gassed" at Chateau Thierry on June 6th, but recovered quickly and returned to active service until he was disabled by the present injury on July 19, ..."

4. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1889)
"The burden is upon the servant to show negligence or unskilful- ness in the co-servant through whose act the injury was inflicted.1 5. Evidence. ..."

5. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1914)
"of the injury which is the result of the illegal act for which the state is responsible.4 The injury occasioned by the illegal act consists more in the ..."

6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1920)
"This might be correlated with injury to the visual psychic areas or the cuneus of ... The dysarthria present might very well have been due to injury to the ..."

7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"The injury was about six inches long on a limb two inches in diameter. Within the diseased area was a series of six ridges or convolutions in the wood ..."

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