injury Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
    harm; trauma; hurt.
  2. noun an accident that results in physical damage or hurt
    accidental injury.
  3. noun a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
    wound; combat injury.
  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

WordNet

In"ju*ry noun
Etymology
OE. injurie, L. injuria, fr. injurius injurious, wrongful, unjust; pref. in- not + jus,juris, right,law,justice: cf. F. injure. See Just, a.
Wordforms
plural Injuries
Definitions
  1. 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.
    For he that doeth injury shall receve that he did evil. Wyclif(Col. iii. 25).
    Many times we do injury to a cause by dwelling on trifling arguments. I. Watts.
    Riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage. Milton.
    ✍ Injury in morals and jurisprudence is the intentional doing of wrong. Fleming. Syn. -- Harm; hurt; damage; loss; impairment; detriment; wrong; evil; injustice.

Webster 1913