injury

Definition

  • noun: harm or damage
  • noun: an act that damages or hurts
  • synonyms: wrong

Examples

  • Most people were forced to work longer hours each week, and to 'add insult to injury', the company decided not to give pay raises.

  • If you keep on lifting those heavy weights, you'll 'do yourself an injury'.

  • an athlete who is 'injury-prone' [=an athlete who is frequently injured]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) From the hospital came reports of victims suffering fractures of ribs, heads, arms and legs. And Negro leader John Lewis, despite injury from a possible skull fracture, led the marchers back to the chapel after the encounter with officers. Help! Help! (..)
    2014 Selma
  • (..) Dialogue: ..,Default,,,with rat predation\Nor the radiating fractures. Dialogue: ..,Default,,,It suggests she was struck\Nby something sharp. Dialogue: ..,Default,,,This injury would\Nhave bled heavily, Dialogue: ..,Default,,,and yet there is only minimal\Nhemorrhagic staining. (..)
    2016 TvShow: Bones Title: The Death in the Defense Season: 11 Episode 11
  • (..) What if the damage to the victim's first proximal phalanx was self-inflicted? I don't follow. I'm positing that the victim caused both injuries to himself. And you thought my scenario was idiotic. Why would someone punch himself in the face? Oh, uh, actually, (..)
    2016 TvShow: Bones Title: The Fight in the Fixer Season: 11 Episode 15