injury

How to use injury in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for injury.

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It is clearly obvious, the fact that there happens to also be prior art just adds insult to injury.

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Quick take

any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of injury gathered in one view.

noun

any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

noun

an accident that results in physical damage or hurt

noun

a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for injury.

noun

any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

noun

an accident that results in physical damage or hurt

noun

a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

noun

an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage

noun

wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted

Example sentences

It is clearly obvious, the fact that there happens to also be prior art just adds insult to injury.

Not a single one would take the case on contingency, mainly because there was no permanent injury or death that had occurred.

Depending on what kind of injury a creature suffers it tracks the damage to individual body part and the results of it.

A handy technique for evaluating situations is this: how many mistakes am I away from death/injury?

With a full network of communicating cars and fail-safes we could almost eliminate traffic-related injury and death.

Your story of spending $1200 on health care in three years could very well have been one of being completely bankrupted because you suffered a serious but not life-threatening injury.

This article ignores a lot of peer-reviewed literature from planning, public health / injury prevention, and civil engineering in favor of some folksy wisdom of a lieutenant cop.