injury
noun
Simple meaning
Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
Pronunciation
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IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈɪndʒɚi
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Definition
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noun
Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
Damage to the body of a living thing.
Other forms of damage sustained by a living thing, e.g. psychologically.
The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
Used this way, injury is a reasonably familiar word with a clearly unfavourable pull. It comes across as direct, sometimes bluntly so.
- Emotional tone
- Negative
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Moderate
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Serious and weighty
- Usage feel
- Blunt and forceful
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use injury
- “He sustained a minor injury during the soccer game.”noun
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Synonyms
Sense: any physical damage to the body caused by violence
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