English noun: injury |
1. | injury (state) any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. |
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| Synonyms | harm, hurt, trauma |
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| Broader (hypernym) | health problem, ill health, unhealthiness |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | birth trauma, bite, blast trauma, bleeding, blunt trauma, brain damage, break, bruise, bump, burn, contusion, cryopathy, dislocation, electric shock, fracture, frostbite, haemorrhage, hemorrhage, insect bite, intravasation, lesion, penetrating injury, penetrating trauma, pinch, pull, rupture, sting, strain, twist, wale, weal, welt, wheal, whiplash, whiplash injury, wound, wrench |
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2. | injury (event) an accident that results in physical damage or hurt |
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| Synonyms | accidental injury |
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| Broader (hypernym) | accident |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | concussion, mutilation |
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3. | injury (event) a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat |
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| Synonyms | combat injury, wound |
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| Broader (hypernym) | loss, personnel casualty |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | blighty wound, flesh wound |
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| Domain category | armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine |
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4. | injury (act) an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage |
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| Broader (hypernym) | actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | disservice, ill service, ill turn, spoil, spoilage, spoiling |
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5. | injury (act) wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted |
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| Broader (hypernym) | actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | damage, legal injury, wrong |
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