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How does the noun injury contrast with its synonyms?

Some common synonyms of injury are grievance, injustice, and wrong. While all these words mean "an act that inflicts undeserved hurt," injury applies in law specifically to an injustice for which one may sue to recover compensation.

libel constitutes a legal injury

When could grievance be used to replace injury?

The synonyms grievance and injury are sometimes interchangeable, but grievance applies to a circumstance or condition that constitutes an injustice to the sufferer and gives just ground for complaint.

a list of employee grievances

When is it sensible to use injustice instead of injury?

In some situations, the words injustice and injury are roughly equivalent. However, injustice applies to any act that involves unfairness to another or violation of one's rights.

the injustices suffered by the lower classes

In what contexts can wrong take the place of injury?

While in some cases nearly identical to injury, wrong applies also in law to any act punishable according to the criminal code; it may apply more generally to any flagrant injustice.

determined to right society's wrongs

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of injury The Bonner hamstring injury further hinders this crew. Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025 After missing the first five games of the season because of groin and neck injuries, Flynt made his debut on Oct. 13, 2007, and was integral to his team’s 45-42 overtime win against Texas Lutheran University. Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Aug. 2025 Fox News Digital can not independently verify O'Rourke's injury statistic. Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2025 That’s taken the primary DH role away from Stanton, who has returned to playing right field since Judge’s injury. Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for injury
Recent Examples of Synonyms for injury
Noun
  • Another post fact-checking Kennedy’s claims about potential harms from aluminum in vaccines had 1 million views in its first 48 hours.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Invasive species are non-native plants that spread across a landscape, causing harm to economic, environmental or human health.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • There are many powers working to stifle our access to literature and historical accounts — aiming to erase hundreds, if not thousands of years of injustices, hardships, and lessons learned.
    Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The media fixture Amanda Knox — who was accused, convicted and exonerated of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher while both women were studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, in fall 2007 — has lived through a litany of injustices.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Virtually every European country suffered extensive war damage, but the British economy emerged unscathed.
    S. C. M. Paine, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Todd went on to reference scenes where Alexia and her son Peter accused him of dramatically moving out of their home while her other son Frankie, who has permanent brain damage, was there watching.
    Liza Esquibias, People.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The best way to rectify such wrongs is to prevent them from happening.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Did Biden, and now Trump, get this wrong when Russia experts say Putin will only be forced into concession with the threat of true military defeat and U.S. and European allies help Ukraine fight, but not really defeat Russia.
    Leila Fadel, NPR, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Amid this totalizing assault, the nutria’s assiduous gnawing may seem a relatively mild insult; in the state’s coastal-threat index, the nutria would come in sixth place.
    Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • According to a cell phone video obtained through the Connecticut chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the man shouted several Islamophobic insults, including insults attacking Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2025

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“Injury.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/injury. Accessed 1 Sep. 2025.

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