injured
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- adjective
- /ˈɪnʤərd/
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- A number of injured patients sued again.
- injured worker
- injured man
- injured athlete
He used that hospital room and those injured, traumatized children as props.
- He used that hospital room and those injured, traumatized children as props.
- Hip, ribs, elbow, arm, all injured pretty severely.
- If you're ever injured, you can check out Morgan and Morgan.
- But the person is beaten, they are injured severely.
- I think he was lucky I was injured, mate.
- They're all veterans and a lot of them are injured.
- I'll wait till they boot the door and pretend I'm injured.
- Our job was to go in and make sure nobody was dead or injured in the camp.
- Two more dead, more injured, more birds coming in on my sobriety date.
Examples
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I took care of the injured arm of the man they called Spence.
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Four were injured in the attacks.
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And I was going in and talking to men that had been injured on the job.
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'and there was an injured man on the ground.'
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An injured young female came towards us from outside the boat house.
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And you were knocked unconscious and pretty seriously injured.
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We have been told that the injured officer, Jennifer Montgomery, was taken off life support and declared dead just minutes ago.
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The injured suspect is Officer McDonald's son.
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Javad feared that many of those who were injured would soon die.
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The athlete was injured during the final match and had to be carried off the field.
Synonyms
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Feeling physical pain after an accident or attack
Having rough, jagged cuts or tears often caused by an injury
Antonyms
Compounds
A place where injured wild animals get care and recover safely
How Hurt
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Injured comes from an old word meaning 'wrong' — the prefix in- means 'not' and the same root is in justice, which is about what is 'right'. So to be injured meant being 'hurt' or harmed, which is why we use it for physical damage.