Synonyms for injury
Definitions
- n. 1
Injustice.
Related words
- Word family
- injure injurious injustice
- Phrases
- injury time acute kidney injury injury potential pressure injury
- Is a kind of
- condition
Forms
- Plural
- injuries → hurts, harms, damages, traumas…
Choose the right word
Injury is the general term including all the rest. Harm is closely synonymous with injury; it may apply to body, mind, or estate, but always affects real worth, while injury may concern only estimated value.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- hurt I don't want to hurt Tom, but I will if I have to.
- damage The explosion did a lot of damage to the building.
- harm This kind of magazine can do harm to young people.
- trauma This accident has caused him psychological trauma.
- violence The police were unable to cope with such violence.
- wound He cleansed the wound before putting on a bandage.
By length
- 3 letters
- ill1
- 4 letters
- loss1, hurt1, evil2, harm1, bane1, tort1
- 5 letters
- wrong1, abuse2, wound1, scath
- 6 letters
- damage2, trauma2, lesion2
- 7 letters
- offense2, offence, outrage2, affront2, blemish2
- 8 letters
- violence3, drawback2, trespass2
- 9 letters
- violation4, injustice3, detriment3, grievance2
- 10 letters
- impairment3, mutilation4, disservice3
- 12 letters
- disadvantage4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (evil2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- blessure
- Deutsch
- Verwundung