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Injury

noun

(pl. injuries)

Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.. Synonyms: harm, hurt, trauma.

An accident that results in physical damage or hurt. Synonym: accidental injury.

A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat. Synonyms: combat injury, wound.

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

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

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... Gunning, and she pounced at him and shook her parasol in his face so vigorously that she ripped in the back the same as a chrysalis, "how easy it is to remedy a seemingly incurable injury." ...

— A British Islander - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... we are an altogether unregimented people, with a strong belief in the virtues of rugged individualism and in the right of the average man to go along about as he pleases, so long as he does not do actual injury to society. Voluntary group cooperation rather than absolute group loyalty, developing from a strong spiritual bond, is the basic technic of Americans in their average rounds. It is enough to satisfy the ...

— The Armed Forces Officer - Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 • U. S. Department of Defense

... where there is a wish to hurt, whether by reproach or injury; and these either for revenge, as one enemy against another; or for some profit belonging to another, as the robber to the traveller; or to avoid some evil, as towards one who is feared; or through envy, as one less fortunate ...

— The Confessions of Saint Augustine • Saint Augustine

... prejudices; that he shuns extremes, and is charmed with prudence; that his novels do not attack the Catholic dogmas—though they deal so severely with Catholic bigotry—but the customs and ideas cherished by secular fanaticism to the injury of the Church. Because this is so evident, our critic holds, his novels are "found in the bosom of families in every corner of Spain." Their popularity among all classes in Catholic and prejudiced Spain, and not among free-thinking students merely, bears testimony to the fact that his ...

— Dona Perfecta • B. Perez Galdos

... history of this extraordinary man, which he probably would have been induced to relate to strangers, who might perhaps be of some little service to him, but who could have no inducement to take advantage from any thing he might say to do him an injury. No one here knew the cause of his banishment, but they took it for granted that it must have been for something very atrocious, particularly as two or three commanders of Kamtschatka have endeavoured to get him recalled ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 • Robert Kerr

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