injuryn.
/ˈɪn(d)ʒ(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈɪndʒ(ə)ri/ 1. Wrongful action or treatment; violation or infringement of another's rights; suffering or mischief wilfully and unjustly inflicted. With an and plural, A wrongful act; a wrong inflicted or suffered.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > harm, injury, or wrong > [noun]
loathc900
harmOE
teenOE
griefc1330
injurec1374
injuryc1384
truitc1390
spitea1400
wrethec1400
supprise1442
trouble1463
damage1470
objectionc1475
interess1489
tort1532
mishanter1754
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unjustness > unjust act > [noun]
unrighteOE
injuryc1384
wrongness1856
inequity1857
society > morality > rightness or justice > wrong or injustice > [noun] > an unjust act
unrighteOE
wrong1067
injuryc1384
wrongness1856
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Coloss. iii. 25 He that doth iniurie [L. injuriam]..schal resseyue that that he dide yuele.
c1386 G. Chaucer Melibeus ⁋845 Ye..han doon grete Iniuries and wronges to me and to my wyf.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 10 Ther is no lorde, that woll venge the Iniuries done therto.
1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Aiii She was..redy anone to forgete and to forgyue iniuries done vnto her.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 1 By [wholesome laws]..we are bridled..from doing of iniuries.
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 273 Injury is properly the willing doing of Injustice to him that is unwilling to receive it.
1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. viii. 142 Injury, as distinct from Harm, may raise sudden Anger.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 2 Private wrongs..are an infringement or privation of the private or civil rights belonging to individuals..and are thereupon frequently termed civil injuries.
1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. II. 91 It was associated in her mind with her mother's injuries, and her own.
1883 Wharton's Law-lexicon (ed. 7) Injury, any wrong or damage done to another, either in his person, rights, reputation, or property.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > insult > [noun]
despite1297
conteckc1380
reproofa1382
contumelyc1386
villainya1400
cagment1504
injury?1518
mispersoning1522
opprobry1569
disgrace1592
baffling1602
affronting1611
insultance?1615
confronta1626
abusiveness1633
confrontmentc1635
baffle1647
insultancy1655
contumeliousness1657
disobliging1692
affrontingness1730
insultation1755
insulting1837
ranking1954
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [noun]
teleeOE
folk-leasinga1000
tolec1000
wrayingc1000
missaw?c1225
slanderc1290
disclanderc1300
famationc1325
noisec1325
skander1338
missaying1340
misspeecha1375
slanderingc1380
biting1382
defaminga1400
filtha1400
missaya1400
obloquya1438
oblocution?a1439
juroryc1440
defamationa1450
defamea1450
forspeaking1483
depravinga1500
defamya1513
injury?1518
depravation1526
maledictiona1530
abusion?1530
blasphemation1533
infamation1533
insectationa1535
calumning1541
calumniation?1549
abuse1559
calumnying1563
calumny1564
belying?1565
illingc1575
scandalizing1575
misparlance?1577
blot1587
libelling1587
scandal1596
traducement1597
injurying1604
deprave1610
vilifying1611
noisec1613
disfame1620
sycophancy1622
aspersion1633
disreport1640
medisance1648
bollocking1653
vilification1653
sugillation1654
blasphemya1656
traduction1656
calumniating1660
blaspheming1677
aspersing1702
blowing1710
infamizing1827
malignation1836
mud-slinging1858
mud-throwing1864
denigration1868
mud-flinging1876
dénigrement1883
malignment1885
injurious falsehood1907
mud-sling1919
bad-mouthing1939
bad mouth1947
trash-talking1974
?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Aviiiv This scorfy scoftynge, declareth openly Agaynste rurall men, rebuke and iniury.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xlvi. 150 He began to raile vpon them with a thousand injuries.
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 95 He..fell to bitter Invectives against the Person and Actions of the French King. And..spake all the Iniuries he could devise of Charles.
1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 107 With the same patience that Chirurgions will [bear] the injuries and blows of mad, and frantick men.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 172. ⁋1 I do not mean it an Injury to Women, when I say there is a Sort of Sex in Souls.
3. † b. concrete. A bodily wound or sore. Obsolete. rare.
a. Hurt or loss caused to or sustained by a person or thing; harm, detriment, damage. With an and plural. An instance of this.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun]
burstc1000
harmOE
scatheOE
teenOE
evil healc1175
waningc1175
hurt?c1225
quede?c1225
balec1275
damage1300
follyc1300
grill13..
ungain13..
torferc1325
eviltyc1330
wem1338
impairment1340
marring1357
unhend1377
sorrowc1380
pairingc1384
pairmentc1384
mischiefc1385
offencec1385
appairment1388
hindering1390
noyinga1398
bresta1400
envya1400
wemminga1400
gremec1400
wilc1400
blemishing1413
lesion?a1425
nocument?a1425
injuryc1430
mischieving1432
hindrance1436
detrimenta1440
ill1470
untroth1470
diversity1484
remordc1485
unhappinessc1485
grudge1491
wriguldy-wrag?1520
danger1530
dishort1535
perishment1540
wreaka1542
emperishment1545
impeachment1548
indemnity1556
impair1568
spoil1572
impeach1575
interestc1575
emblemishing1583
mishap1587
endamagement1593
blemishment1596
mischievance1600
damnificationa1631
oblesion1656
mishanter1754
vitiation1802
mar1876
jeel1887
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harm or injury > [noun]
loathc900
teenOE
ungrithlOE
wemming1100
waningc1175
wrongc1275
prejudicec1300
derea1325
torferc1325
eviltyc1330
griefc1330
wem1338
injurec1374
truitc1390
noyinga1398
inconvenience14..
nocument?a1425
outraya1425
injuryc1430
mischieving1432
supprise1442
incommodityc1450
interess1489
grudge1491
tort1532
wreaka1542
impeachment1548
inconveniency1553
indemnity1556
interestc1575
abuse1595
mischievance1600
oblesion1656
grit1876
c1430 Life St. Kath. (1884) 39 Wyth oute iniurie of hys godhed he ouercome hym þat..had brought man into synne.
1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. aj Thiniurie of tyme consumynge all thynges.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 34 Some shepheards in Italy vse thereof to make sacks, wherein they wrappe themselues from the iniury of raine.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 45/1 Those parts of the Wall which are near to the ground,..by the alternate injuries of Dust and Wet, are very apt to moulder and rot.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. i. 28 Having sustained a heavy blow without injury.
1845 Florist's Jrnl. 6 266 Repotting..has been neglected for three or four years without apparent injury to the plants.
1859 Engineer VII. 282 Of the cases of injury from causes beyond the passengers' own control, all but twenty-seven were occasioned by collisions between trains, and mostly great numbers were injured at once.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound
woundc900
soreOE
dolk?c1225
hurt?c1225
unsoundc1275
brokec1350
plaguea1382
lesurec1420
plaiea1470
blechure1483
wounding1581
bloodwipe1611
injurya1616
seat1634
trauma1684
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. vi. 122 Wee thought not good to bruise an iniurie, till it were full ripe. View more context for this quotation
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations, as injury-doing, wrongdoing; injury-feigning n. and adj.
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1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 29 He..began to accuse Nature of Iniurie doing and offence.
1925 J. S. Huxley in Brit. Birds XIX. 93 The Purple Sandpiper which nests on the..tundra has an ‘injury-feigning’ performance which must be hard to beat for elaboration.
1925 J. S. Huxley in Brit. Birds XIX. 94 In regard to ‘injury-feigning’ the Avocet is one of the most spectacular of birds.
1932 D. Lack in Ibis 282 Injury-feigning is, therefore, assumed to be primarily a partial paralysis due to anxiety.
1948 Brit. Birds 41 237 The cock several times gave ‘lure displays’ of the ‘injury-feigning’ type, creeping away from the dummy with wings dragging and depressed and tail fanned.
C2.
injury time n. the extra time allowed in a game of football or the like to make up for time spent in attending to injuries.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > time allowed for injury stoppages
extra time1911
injury time1960
1960 Sunday Times 18 Dec. 20/1 The winning score..did not come until the 43rd minute of the second half in what, in the absence of any official designation, is termed ‘injury time’.
1971 New Society 1 July 24/3 One of the better ideas in the competition is their tie-breaker. If there is a tie the teams play off to an instant death by goals scored from penalties kicked immediately after extra injury-time.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† injuryv.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To wrong; = injure v. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > harm, injury, or wrong > harm, injure, or commit offence against [verb (transitive)]
misdoc1230
forworkc1275
wrongc1330
to do (one) spite or a spitec1380
to commit (also do, make) an offencec1384
offenda1387
unrighta1393
to do disease toc1400
injuryc1484
offence1512
misfease1571
watcha1586
injure1597
envya1625
disserve1637
hinder1639
disservice1837
serve1887
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > [verb (transitive)] > to person or thing
werdec725
wemc900
forworkOE
evilc1000
teenOE
grievec1230
misdoc1230
mischievec1325
shond1338
endamagec1374
unrighta1393
damagea1400
disvail14..
disavail1429
mischief1437
outrayc1440
prejudice1447
abuse?1473
injuryc1484
danger1488
prejudicate1553
damnify?a1562
wrack1562
inviolate1569
mislestc1573
indemnify1583
qualify1584
interess1587
buse1589
violence1592
injure1597
bane1601
envya1625
prejudiciala1637
founder1655
society > morality > rightness or justice > wrong or injustice > act unjustly to [verb (transitive)]
to do (…) wrongc1220
wrongc1330
malign1432
injuryc1484
injure1597
to fuck over1961
to screw over1968
dork1969
to dick over1991
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unjustness > [verb (transitive)] > treat
wrongc1330
injuryc1484
injure1597
c1484 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 64 One Robart Walkinham is injuried & wronged of his tennor in Arkenden.
1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips lvii. 383 Rome hath spoiled the whole world, and iniuried al nations.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xi. 616 He..should greatly wrong himselfe, and injurie me as much.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxii. 119 If any particular member conceive himself injuried by the Body it self.
2. To abuse with words, revile, calumniate; = injure v. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > slander or calumniate [verb (transitive)]
to say or speak shame of, on, byc950
teleeOE
sayOE
to speak evil (Old English be) ofc1000
belie?c1225
betell?c1225
missayc1225
skandera1300
disclanderc1300
wrenchc1300
bewrayc1330
bite1330
gothele1340
slanderc1340
deprave1362
hinderc1375
backbite1382
blasphemec1386
afamec1390
fame1393
to blow up?a1400
defamea1400
noise1425
to say well (also evil, ill, etc.) of (also by)1445
malignc1450
to speak villainy of1470
infame1483
injury1484
painta1522
malicea1526
denigrate1526
disfamea1533
misreporta1535
sugill?1539
dishonest?c1550
calumniate1554
scandalize1566
ill1577
blaze1579
traduce1581
misspeak1582
blot1583
abuse1592
wronga1596
infamonize1598
vilify1598
injure?a1600
forspeak1601
libel1602
infamize1605
belibel1606
calumnize1606
besquirt1611
colly1615
scandala1616
bedirt1622
soil1641
disfigurea1643
sycophant1642
spatter1645
sugillate1647
bespattera1652
bedung1655
asperse1656
mischieve1656
opprobriatea1657
reflect1661
dehonestate1663
carbonify1792
defamate1810
mouth1810
foul-mouth1822
lynch1836
rot1890
calumny1895
ding1903
bad-talk1938
norate1938
bad-mouth1941
monster1967
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope i. xvi That he be not iniuryed and mocqued of euery one.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 1011/2 We must be more greued and tormented at it, then if wee our selues were reuiled and iniuried in most spiteful sort.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xlvii. 153 Where occasion brings vs neere the enemie, we freely give our souldiers liberty, to..injury him with all maner of reproaches.
3. To hurt, harm, damage; = injure v. 3.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)]
derec888
marc1275
hurt1297
shond1338
teenc1380
offendc1425
tamec1430
wreakc1440
supprisea1450
mischiefc1450
mischieve1465
wringa1529
strikea1535
danger1538
bemarc1540
violate1551
damnify?a1562
injury1579
aggrievea1716
crock1846
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)]
mareOE
shendOE
hinderc1000
amarOE
awemc1275
noyc1300
touchc1300
bleche1340
blemisha1375
spill1377
misdoa1387
grieve1390
damagea1400
despoil?a1400
matea1400
snapea1400
mankc1400
overthrowa1425
tamec1430
undermine1430
blunder1440
depaira1460
adommage?1473
endamage1477
prejudicec1487
fulyie1488
martyra1500
dyscrase?1504
corrupt1526
mangle1534
danger1538
destroy1542
spoil1563
ruinate1564
ruin1567
wrake1570
injury1579
bane1587
massacre1589
ravish1594
wrong1595
rifle1604
tainta1616
mutilea1618
to do violence toa1625
flaw1665
stun1676
quail1682
maul1694
moil1698
damnify1712
margullie1721
maul1782
buga1790
mux1806
queer1818
batter1840
puckeroo1840
rim-rack1841
pretty1868
garbage1899
savage1899
to do in1905
strafe1915
mash1924
blow1943
nuke1967
mung1969
1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 694 Least the trophee of our victorie by treading vpon..be iniuried.
1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects 83 They will not indure to see a fly or worme or anything living injuryed.
Derivatives
ˈinjuried adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > harm, injury, or wrong > [adjective] > affected by
wrongeda1547
injuried1600
offended1607
injured1634
ear-sore1865
1600 J. Mush in T.G. Law Archpriest Controv. (1896) I. 160 Vnlesse the iniuried freely forgiue.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [noun]
teleeOE
folk-leasinga1000
tolec1000
wrayingc1000
missaw?c1225
slanderc1290
disclanderc1300
famationc1325
noisec1325
skander1338
missaying1340
misspeecha1375
slanderingc1380
biting1382
defaminga1400
filtha1400
missaya1400
obloquya1438
oblocution?a1439
juroryc1440
defamationa1450
defamea1450
forspeaking1483
depravinga1500
defamya1513
injury?1518
depravation1526
maledictiona1530
abusion?1530
blasphemation1533
infamation1533
insectationa1535
calumning1541
calumniation?1549
abuse1559
calumnying1563
calumny1564
belying?1565
illingc1575
scandalizing1575
misparlance?1577
blot1587
libelling1587
scandal1596
traducement1597
injurying1604
deprave1610
vilifying1611
noisec1613
disfame1620
sycophancy1622
aspersion1633
disreport1640
medisance1648
bollocking1653
vilification1653
sugillation1654
blasphemya1656
traduction1656
calumniating1660
blaspheming1677
aspersing1702
blowing1710
infamizing1827
malignation1836
mud-slinging1858
mud-throwing1864
denigration1868
mud-flinging1876
dénigrement1883
malignment1885
injurious falsehood1907
mud-sling1919
bad-mouthing1939
bad mouth1947
trash-talking1974
1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) 278 The heynousnes of spitefull iniurying.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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