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| Main Entry: |
injury
 [in-juh-ree] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hurt, harm |
| Synonyms: | abrasion, abuse, affliction, affront, agony, bad, bite, blemish, boo-boo, bruise, burn, chop, cramp, cut, damage, deformation, detriment, discomfiture, disservice, distress, evil, fracture, gash, grievance, hemorrhage, ill, impairment, indignity, injustice, insult, laceration, lesion, libel, loss, mischief, misery, mutilation, nick, ouch, outrage, pang, ruin, scar, scratch, shock, slander, sore, sprain, stab, sting, suffering, swelling, trauma, twinge, wound, wrong |
| Antonyms: | aid, assistance, benefit, blessing, favor, good, health, help, right |
| Main Entry: | abuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical hurting, injuring |
| Synonyms: | crime, damage, defilement, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, malevolence, maltreatment, manhandling, misdeed, offense, pollution, violation, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | aid, help, preservation, respect |
| Main Entry: | affront |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | an insult |
| Synonyms: | abuse, backhanded compliment, brickbat, dirty deed, indignity, injury, left-handed compliment, offense, outrage, provocation, put-down, slap in the face, slap, slight, slur, vexation, wrong |
| Antonyms: | appeasement, compliment, pleasantry |
Example Sentences
- When vision fails, it's often the result of damage to the eye caused by an injury or degenerative disease.
- They have a long muzzle and sharp fangs designed to inflict deadly injury.
- Advocates of stem cell research get a boost when a researcher details his methods to cure a mouse with a spinal cord injury.
| Main Entry: | aggression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attack, often military |
| Synonyms: | assailment, assault, blitz, blitzkrieg, encroachment, injury, invasion, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, push, raid |
| Main Entry: | boo boo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small hurt |
| Synonyms: | black and blue mark, bruise, cut, injury, laceration, scratch, sore |
| Main Entry: | bruise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | black and blue mark under skin |
| Synonyms: | black eye, black mark, blemish, boo-boo, contusion, discoloration, injury, mark, mouse, swelling, wale, wound |
| Main Entry: | concussion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collision, shaking |
| Synonyms: | blast, blow, buffeting, bump, clash, clout, crack, crash, hit, impact, injury, jar, jarring, jolt, jolting, jounce, pounding, punch, shock, trauma |
| Main Entry: | cost |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | penalty, sacrifice |
| Synonyms: | damage, deprivation, detriment, expense, forfeit, forfeiture, harm, hurt, injury, loss, suffering |
| Antonyms: | repayment, retribution |
| Main Entry: | cyst |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unusual growth |
| Synonyms: | bag, bleb, blister, injury, pouch, sac, sore, vesicle, wen |
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