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What does injury mean?
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injury

An injury is a place on a person or animal that is hurt or broken because of a cut, hit, fall, etc. She suffered serious injuries to her face and chest in the car crash. In law, injury also includes loss of money or bad feelings. Our client is suing for injury arising from breach of contract.

injury

any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc an accident that results in physical damage or hurt wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage (= wound) a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

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Simple sentences

The doctor treated her injury.
You should not inflict any injury on others on any account.
My brother may have to be operated on for the knee injury.
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
The long trip aggravated her injury.
The loss of his sense of smell was due to a head injury.
He received a large sum of money in compensation for his injury.
It appears that her injury was pretty bad.
The injury caused the athlete great pain.
I stretch before exercising to prevent injury.
The therapist is treating the patient for a back injury.
To avoid injury or discomfort, be sure that the vagina is lubricated before intercourse.
Any electrical device, if used improperly, has the potential for causing fire, electrical shock or personal injury.
I got hurt during an experiment, and the injury was pretty serious.
None of the passengers escaped injury.
It's a very dangerous sport, where a slight mistake can lead to serious injury.
The player faked an injury.
We use miscellaneous methods such as discussion, threats and physical injury.
Due to injury to the cervix during dilation used in some abortions, your next baby may have a low birth weight or you may be more likely to have a spontaneous abortion in later pregnancies.
Tom will miss the Olympics due to his injury.
The football player faked an injury.
The soccer player faked an injury.

Movie subtitles

It's serious. Tachycardia, likely severe chest injury.
A splenic injury.
Awaken Herr Poelzig at once and take us somewhere where I can dress the lady's injury.
An injury you suffered put you to bed for a week, sheriff.
The first stop, the patient comes aboard - head injury, all wrapped up.
We mustn't add insult to injury.
Maybe the insult Mr. Darcy likes to add to injury.
Allison's just published a complete record of over 300 cases of cord injury.
That much injury, there never was a chance.
If it isn't here why did you risk serious injury to prevent my searching?
You were found in the street, more dead than alive with a head injury.
You know, the head injury case who went violent yesterday.
There's no injury to the brain, I'm certain of that.
He suffered an injury to his brain once, and ever since then.
I hope your injury will be slight.
The injury to my hand, I can.
If I attacked two of your servants. opened the face of one and slashed one of your dogs, wouldn't you call it injury?
Instead you play the weakling because of your injury.
The injury's nothing.
And what made it even tougher was that she was around all the time, hovering over me, afraid I'd do injury to that precious brainchild of hers.
Now, which one of you wants to report bodily injury?
But it could be a fibroma. Her old injury.
You're nothing but an irresponsible drunk driving around the streets with the power to inflict death and injury on innocent people.
To say I'm sorry would just merely be adding insult to injury.
Uh, in case you find any further injury.
You have an injury, but it's a flesh wound.
Well I'll be doggoned if I didn't do you an injury, Curley.
I forgot to ask you. How's your injury?
The injury to the mind, to what is called the psyche, this takes longer.
You're right to feign injury, Toto.
Tell him we could have rebuked him at Harfleur, but that we thought not good to bruise an injury till it were full ripe.
At least it'll tell us the nature of the injury to her mind.
Medical examiner says he died of drowning. Had a head injury and was full of whiskey.
Yes. Would you tell the court what was the nature of your injury?
The injury will be cured in one week.
It was not in search of your river that I led you into the mountains. and brought injury upon you.

News and current affairs

There has not been a single mishap that resulted in injury to a single person or ecosystem.
To that end, mental damage is preferable to physical injury.
The ICD comprehends the entire spectrum of human disease and injury, and its updates reflect the best new knowledge as well as set the stage for the next wave of medical advances.
Specifically, the aggressor in many international conflicts in this period has been motivated by perceived injury to national dignity.
Actual injury is not necessary: the perceived superiority of another nation is enough.
Adding insult to injury, in Greece and Italy, two of the hardest-hit countries, financial markets effectively deposed elected, if imperfect, governments.
He then added insult to injury both by failing to do all that he could to curb the violence, which followed the Sharon visit and by releasing more than one hundred accused terrorists from Palestinian prisons.
But in both cases, a tan is the body's response to injury.
Tool manipulation can thus occur only within the predetermined corridor, preventing unintended injury to the brain.
Of course, the brunt of the costs of injury and death is borne by soldiers and their families.
Many doctors would like to think of pain as a simple sensation that usefully calls disease or injury to our attention.
Most of the time, pain occurs after simple nerve endings detect tissue injury in various ways and generate signals that travel to the spinal cord and from there to the brain.
Unfortunately, the neural roadmap for sensory messages of tissue injury explains only a part of how we experience pain.
In other words, pain may begin with a neural message of tissue injury or disease, but it is the end product of complex events within the brain.
If you are not subjecting your daughter to traumatic genital injury at three and marrying her off at ten, she can go to school.
The choice of Libya to chair the UN Human Rights Commission adds insult to injury.
In the 1910's, American workplace injuries began to fall in virtually every industry, except coal mining (where injury rates remained high for several decades).
Putin added insult to injury by talking to his associates rather than to Yanukovych.
Indeed, physiological indicators have less of an impact on a patient's prognosis after a painful injury than psychological and social factors such as depression or poor coping skills.
The then 64-year-old artist was head-butted, but escaped serious injury thanks to heavy police protection.
But only effective legal institutions, not Party fiat, will reduce Chinese workers' risk of death or injury on the job.
And, to add insult to injury, banks in advanced countries, especially those receiving aid from their governments, seem to be pulling back from lending in developing countries, including through branches and subsidiaries.
Pneumonia also has not been able to play its friendly role for 84-year-old Samuel Golubchuk of Winnipeg, Canada, who for years has had limited physical and mental capacities as a result of a brain injury.

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