Elementary 📚 Vocabulary · #368 of 1319

injury (n.)

physical harm

Examples

  • He had a knee injury.

Key rules

  • An injury is physical harm to the body
  • Suffer an injury, a serious injury, a knee injury
  • Injury is countable or uncountable

Use cases

  • Sports
  • Accidents
  • Describing harm
💡 Tip: Injure is the verb; injured is the adjective: an injured player.
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