injury
pronunciation
How to pronounce injury in British English:
UK [ˈɪndʒəri]
How to pronounce injury in American English:
US [ˈɪndʒəri]
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- Noun:
- any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
- an accident that results in physical damage or hurt
- a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
- an act that injures someone
Word Origin
- injury
- injury: [14] Etymologically, an injury is something ‘unjust’. It comes via Anglo-Norman injurie from Latin injūria, a noun use of injūrius ‘unjust’, which was a compound adjective based on jūs ‘right’ (source of English just). Its original meaning in English was ‘wrongful action’, and it was only gradually that the notion of ‘harm’ (which had actually been present in the word from classical Latin times) began to come to the fore.=> just
- injury (n.)
- late 14c., "harm, damage, loss; a specific injury," from Anglo-French injurie "wrongful action," from Latin injuria "wrong, hurt, injustice, insult," noun use of fem. of injurius "wrongful, unjust," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + ius (genitive iuris) "right, law" (see jurist).
Example
- 1. Doctors said the woman suffered severe brain injury .
- 2. That 's why paralysis from a spinal injury is a lifelong disability .
- 3. Has the injury changed your life or your worldview ?
- 4. They scored the winning goal in injury time .
- 5. About every 21 seconds , someone in the united states has a serious brain injury .