injury

B1 Topic:Health & Medicine

US /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ.i/ UK /ˈɪn.d͡ʒə.ɹi/ See IPA manual

Freq #3985

Meanings

1

noun
Physical harm or damage done to the body.

He suffered a serious injury in the accident.
2

noun
Harm done to someone's reputation, rights, or feelings.

The false rumour was an injury to her good name.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · physical harm or damage... harmaccidental injury

More dere lesionscathscathe wound

Word family

Forms injuries

Derived forms cryoinjuryinjury-pronemicroinjurynoninjurypostinjurypreinjuryreinjuryself-injury

Related forms abscessblister boil bump carbuncle damage defect detriment disease evil harm hit

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Phrases (2)

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Idioms (1)

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add insult to injury
make an already bad situation worse by adding humiliation or further harm

Simplified etymology

Injury, recorded since late Middle English, ultimately belongs to the Latin word family based on jus, meaning “law.” The same root underlies judge, just, and justice.

Etymology

From Middle English injurie, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + iūs, iūris (“right, law”). Doublet of injuria.

*h₂yew- Proto-Indo-European injurie Middle English iniūria Latin

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# injury

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B1
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ.i/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈɪn.d͡ʒə.ɹi/
**Frequency rank:** 3985

## Meanings
1. Physical harm or damage done to the body.
2. Harm done to someone's reputation, rights, or feelings.

## Examples
- He suffered a serious injury in the accident.
- The false rumour was an injury to her good name.

## Synonyms
- dere
- lesion
- scath
- scathe
- wound

## Derived Forms
- cryoinjury
- injury-prone
- microinjury
- noninjury
- postinjury
- preinjury
- reinjury
- self-injury

## Related Forms
- abscess
- blister
- boil
- bump
- carbuncle
- damage
- defect
- detriment
- disease
- evil
- harm
- hit

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *h₂yew-
- Root: injurie
- Root: iniūria

## Etymology
From Middle English injurie, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + iūs, iūris (“right, law”). Doublet of injuria.

## AI Etymology
Injury comes from Middle English injurie, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + iūs, iūris (“right, law”). Doublet of injuria. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern nominal form is built from the named base and affix. The historical line also includes *h₂yew-.

## Topics
- Health & Medicine

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