Injury

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=ju=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

Injury, n. [OE. injurie, L. injuria, fr. injurius injurious, wrongful, unjust; pref. in- not + jus, juris, right, law, justice: cf. F. injure. See Just, a.].

 Any damage or hurt done to a person or thing; detriment to, 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.  [1913 Webster]
" Injury in morals and jurisprudence is the intentional doing of wrong."  Fleming.
"For he that doeth injury shall receive that that he did evil."  [1913 Webster]
"Many times we do injury to a cause by dwelling on trifling arguments."  [1913 Webster]
"Riot ascends above their loftiest towers,
And injury and outrage."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Harm; hurt; damage; loss; impairment; detriment; wrong; evil; injustice.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Injury, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a physical harm or damage. b an instance of this (suffered head injuries).
2 esp. Law a wrongful action or treatment. b an instance of this.
3 damage to one's good name etc.

Idiom

injury time Brit. Football extra playing-time allowed by a referee to compensate for time lost in dealing with injuries.

Etymology

ME f. AF injurie f. L injuria a wrong (as IN-(1), jus juris right)

DEVIL DICTIONARY

Injury

n. An offense next in degree of enormity to a slight.

THESAURUS

Injury

abomination, abrasion, abuse, ache, aching, affront, agony, aspersion, atrocity, bad, bane, bankruptcy, befoulment, bereavement, blemish, blight, blow, breach, break, breakage, breakdown, brickbat, burn, chafe, check, chip, collapse, concussion, contempt, contumely, corruption, cost, crack, crack-up, crackle, cramp, craze, crime, crime against humanity, crippling, crying evil, cut, damage, dead loss, deadly sin, debit, defilement, delinquency, denial, denudation, deprivation, dereliction, despite, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, detriment, dilapidation, disablement, disadvantage, discomfiture, dispossession, disrepair, disservice, distress, divestment, dolor, drawback, dump, encroachment, enormity, error, evil, expense, failure, fault, felony, flash burn, flout, flouting, forfeit, forfeiture, fracture, fray, frazzle, gall, gash, genocide, gibe, great wrong, grief, grievance, gross injustice, guilty act, handicap, harm, havoc, heavy sin, hobbling, humiliation, hurt, hurting, ill, ill-treatment, ill-usage, ill-use, impairment, imposition, impropriety, incapacitation, incision, indignity, indiscretion, inexpiable sin, infection, infringement, iniquity, injustice, inroad, insult, jeer, jeering, laceration, lapse, lesion, liability, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, loss of ground, maiming, malefaction, malfeasance, maltreatment, malum, mayhem, minor wrong, miscarriage of justice, mischief, misdeed, misdemeanor, misery, misfeasance, mistreatment, mock, mockery, molestation, mortal sin, mortal wound, mutilation, nasty blow, nonfeasance, offense, omission, outrage, pain, pang, passion, peccadillo, peccancy, perdition, poison, pollution, prejudice, privation, puncture, put-down, raw deal, rent, rip, robbery, ruin, ruination, ruinousness, run, rupture, sabotage, sacrifice, scald, scathe, scoff, scorch, scrape, scratch, scuff, scurrility, second-degree burn, shock, sickening, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slash, slip, sore, sore spot, spasm, spoiling, spoliation, stab, stab wound, step backward, stress, stress of life, stripping, stroke, suffering, taking away, taunt, tear, tender spot, the worst, third-degree burn, throes, tort, total loss, toxin, transgression, trauma, trespass, trip, uncomplimentary remark, unutterable sin, venial sin, venom, vexation, violation, violence, weakening, woe, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench, wrong

ROGET THESAURUS

Injury

Evil

N evil, ill, harm, hurt, mischief, nuisance, machinations of the devil, Pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to, blow, buffet, stroke, scratch, bruise, wound, gash, mutilation, mortal blow, wound, immedicabile vulnus, damage, loss, disadvantage, prejudice, drawback, disaster, accident, casualty, mishap, bad job, devil to pay, calamity, bale, catastrophe, tragedy, ruin, adversity, mental suffering, demon, (Evil spirit) bane, (cause of evil), badness, (Production of Evil), painfulness, evil doer, outrage, wrong, injury, foul play, bad turn, ill turn, disservice, spoliation, grievance, crying evil, disastrous, bad, awry, out of joint, disadvantageous, amis, wrong, ill, to one's cost, moving accidents by flood and field.

Badness

N badness, hurtfulness, virulence, evil doer, bane, plague spot, evil star, ill wind, hoodoo, Jonah, snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet, amari aliquid, thorn in the side, malignity, malevolence, tender mercies, ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, outrage, misusage, injury, knockout drops, badness, peccancy, abomination, painfulness, pestilence, guilt, depravity, hurtful, harmful, scathful, baneful, baleful, injurious, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome, prejudicial, disserviceable, disadvantageous, wide-wasting, unlucky, sinister, obnoxious, untoward, disastrous, oppressive, burdensome, onerous, malign, corrupting &c (corrupt), virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive, poisonous, deadly, destructive, inauspicious, bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful, horrid, horrible, dire, rank, peccant, foul, fulsome, rotten, rotten at the core, vile, base, villainous, mean, injured, deteriorated, unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent, below par, illcontrived, ill-conditioned, wretched, sad, grievous, deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, pitiable, woeful, evil, wrong, depraved, shocking, reprehensible, hateful, hateful as a toad, abominable, detestable, execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded, damned, damnable, infernal, diabolic, unadvisable, unprofitable, incompetent, irremediable, badly, wrong, ill, to one's cost, where the shoe pinches, bad is the best: the worst come to the worst, herba mala presto cresco, wrongs unredressed or insults unavenged.

Deterioration

N deterioration, debasement, wane, ebb, recession, retrogradation, decrease, degeneracy, degeneration, degenerateness, degradation, depravation, depravement, devolution, depravity, demoralization, retrogression, masochism, impairment, inquination, injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath, perversion, prostitution, vitiation, discoloration, oxidation, pollution, defoedation, poisoning, venenation, leaven, contamination, canker, corruption, adulteration, alloy, decline, declension, declination, decadence, decadency, falling off, caducity, decrepitude, decay, dilapidation, ravages of time, wear and tear, corrosion, erosion, moldiness, rottenness, moth and rust, dry rot, blight, marasmus, atrophy, collapse, disorganization, delabrement (destruction), aphid, Aphis, plant louse, puceron, vinefretter, vinegrub, wreck, mere wreck, honeycomb, magni nominis umbra, jade, plug, rackabones, skate, tackey, tacky, have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off, wane, ebb, retrograde, decline, droop, go down, go downhill, go from bad to worse, go farther and fare worse, jump out of the frying pan into the fire, run to seed, go to seed, run to waste swale, sweal, lapse, be the worse for, sphacelate: break, break down, spring a leak, crack, start, shrivel, fade, go off, wither, molder, rot, rankle, decay, go bad, go to decay, fall into decay, fall into the sear and yellow leaf, rust, crumble, shake, totter, totter to its fall, perish, die, deteriorate, weaken, put back, set back, taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate, debase, embase, denaturalize, denature, leaven, deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade, ulcerate, stain, discolor, alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice, pervert, prostitute, demoralize, brutalize, render vicious, embitter, acerbate, exacerbate, aggravate, injure, impair, labefy, damage, harm, hurt, shend, scath, scathe, spoil, mar, despoil, dilapidate, waste, overrun, ravage, pillage, wound, stab, pierce, maim, lame, surbate, cripple, hough, hamstring, hit between wind and water, scotch, mangle, mutilate, disfigure, blemish, deface, warp, blight, rot, corrode, erode, wear away, wear out, gnaw, gnaw at the root of, sap, mine, undermine, shake, sap the foundations of, break up, disorganize, dismantle, dismast, destroy, damnify, do one's worst, knock down, deal a blow to, play havoc with, play sad havoc with, play the mischief with, play the deuce with, play the very devil with, play havoc among, play sad havoc among, play the mischief among, play the deuce among, play the very devil among, decimate, Adj, unimproved &c (improve), deteriorated, altered, altered for the worse, injured, sprung, withering, spoiling, on the wane, on the decline, tabid, degenerate, marescent, worse, the worse for, all the worse for, out of repair, out of tune, imperfect, the worse for wear, battered, weathered, weather-beaten, stale, passe, shaken, dilapidated, frayed, faded, wilted, shabby, secondhand, threadbare, worn, worn to a thread, worn to a shadow, worn to the stump, worn to rags, reduced, reduced to a skeleton, far gone, tacky, decayed, moth-eaten, worm-eaten, mildewed, rusty, moldy, spotted, seedy, time-worn, moss-grown, discolored, effete, wasted, crumbling, moldering, rotten, cankered, blighted, tainted, depraved, decrepid, decrepit, broke, busted, broken, out of commission, hors de combat, out of action, broken down, done, done for, done up, worn out, used up, finished, beyond saving, fit for the dust hole, fit for the wastepaper basket, past work, at a low ebb, in a bad way, on one's last legs, undermined, deciduous, nodding to its fall, tottering, past cure, fatigued, retrograde, deleterious, out of the frying pan into the fire, agrescit medendo, what a falling off was there!.

Blemish

N blemish, disfigurement, deformity, adactylism, flaw, defect, injury, spots on the sun, eyesore, stain, blot, spot, spottiness, speck, speckle, blur, tarnish, smudge, dirt, freckle, mole, macula, patch, blotch, birthmark, blobber lip, blubber lip, blain, maculation, scar, wem, pustule, whelk, excrescence, pimple, pitted, freckled, discolored, imperfect, blobber-lipped, bloodshot, injured.