injuredadjective
uk/ˈɪn.dʒəd/us/ˈɪn.dʒɚd/B2 hurt or physically harmed:
She was told to stay in bed to rest her injured back.
If your feelings are injured, someone has offended or upset you:
It's nothing more than injured pride.
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- He's still conscious but he's fairly badly injured.
- The injured soldier crawled to safety.
- Several people were injured, two fatally.
- The hunt for the injured climber continued throughout the night.
- The air was abuzz with military helicopters, airlifting injured people and equipment.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
In bad condition
- battered
- battle-scarred
- be on the skids idiom
- beat up
- blasted
- fleabitten
- have seen better days idiom
- hors de combat
- impair
- in good, bad, etc. repair idiom
- sad
- scuff
- shabby
- shattered
- shop-soiled
- worm-eaten
- worn out
- worse
- worsen
- wrack
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Feeling sad and unhappy
injurednoun [ plural ]
uk/ˈɪn.dʒəd/us/ˈɪn.dʒɚd/the injured
people who are injured, considered as a group:
The injured were taken to several nearby hospitals.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Medical treatment: people who receive medical treatment
- admission
- asthmatic
- case
- casualty
- convalescent
- day patient
- donor
- dying
- epileptic
- geriatric
- inpatient
- invalid 1
- outpatient
- patient
- PWA
- sick
- sufferer
- under
- victim
- wounded