injury

Definitions


[ˈɪn(d)ʒ(ə)ri], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an instance of being injured
(e.g: she suffered an injury to her back)

- damage to a person's feelings
(e.g: compensation for injury to feelings)


Phrases:
- do oneself an injury

Origin:
late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French injurie, from Latin injuria ‘a wrong’, from in- (expressing negation) + jus, jur- ‘right’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries