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injury
 
SYLLABICATION:in·ju·ry
PRONUNCIATION:  nj-r
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. in·ju·ries
1. Damage or harm done to or suffered by a person or thing: escaped from the accident without injury; a scandal that did considerable injury to the campaign. 2. A particular form of hurt, damage, or loss: a leg injury. 3. Law Violation of the rights of another party for which legal redress is available. See synonyms at injustice. 4. Obsolete An insult.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English injurie, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin iniria, a wrong, injustice, from feminine of inirius, unjust : in-, not; see in–1 + is, ir-, law; see yewes- in Appendix I.
 
 
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