Injury
['ɪn(d)ʒ(ə)rɪ] or ['ɪndʒəri]
Definition
(noun.) wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted.
(noun.) an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage.
(noun.) an accident that results in physical damage or hurt.
(noun.) any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc..
Typist: Rodger--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) 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.
Checker: McDonald
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Wrong, injustice.[2]. Hurt, damage, harm, detriment, mischief, prejudice.
Inputed by Byron
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of an injury being done you, signifies that an unfortunate occurrence will soon grieve and vex you. See Hurt.
Edited by Katy
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An offense next in degree of enormity to a slight.
Typed by Freddie
Examples
- They are worse than a goring, for the injury is internal and it does not heal. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Attendance, forbearance, patience with Darcy, was injury to Wickham. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Lionel, you hear: witness for me: persuade your sister to forgive the injury I have done her; persuade her to be mine. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- By degrees it became an enormous injury to me that he stood before the fire. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Can I save the poor girl from injury before they know it? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Regarded from this point of view Mr Pancks's puffings expressed injury and impatience, and each of his louder snorts became a demand for payment. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The injury is not deep. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The instrument with which the injury had been inflicted lay upon the carpet beside him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Not for the satisfaction of my injury. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It is not violence that best overcomes hate--nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You may wonder, I went on, how the event of your daughter's death can have been made the means of inflicting injury on another person. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Excuse me, my Lady, Sir Leicester considerately interposes, but perhaps this may be doing an injury to the young woman which she has not merited. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- No organ will be formed, as Paley has remarked, for the purpose of causing pain or for doing an injury to its possessor. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- While the subject of it was breathing injury in a corner, the Chief loftily addressed this gentleman. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It's impossible,' said Mrs. Gradgrind, with a mingled sense of politeness and injury, 'to be constantly addressing him and never giving him a name. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- A cursory examination of the latter revealed no mortal injuries and after a brief rest he asserted that he felt fit to attempt the return voyage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- You have other injuries, madam! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Brotherhood through sorrow, sorrow for common sufferings and for irreparable mutual injuries, is spreading and increasing throughout the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He will feel highly honoured, and thus you may repay a part of the obligation I owe him, and compensate for the injuries fortune has done him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Their buildings, although very rude and simple, are not inconvenient, but well contrived to defend them from all injuries of cold and heat. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Don't add new injuries to the long, long list of injuries you have done me! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They talked of taking London, conquering England--calling to mind the long detail of injuries which had for many years been forgotten. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But Mr. Gladstone was no patient mechanic set upon easing and righting the clumsy injuries of those stupid adjustments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He is sinking under injuries received at the hands of a villain who attacked him in the dark. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Man, you shall repent of the injuries you inflict. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It corresponds with the injuries. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- When he had dried his eyes and heaved a sob over his injuries, he began moving towards the door. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The injuries and hardships suffered by the men who used it, rather than by the enemy, rendered its name significant. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But Mr. Luker made HIS injuries public, and my injuries, as the necessary consequence, have been proclaimed in their turn. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She was quick in feeling the little injuries to Isabella, which Isabella never felt herself. Jane Austen. Emma.
Typist: Nigel