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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 That might be a good sign regarding guard James Daniels, who sustained an ankle injury during Thursday’s practice and is listed as questionable. Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025 The Los Angeles Chargers took a 10-point lead, and one of the Kansas City Chiefs’ best wide receivers collided with a star player, resulting in a serious injury. Jeff Fedotin, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025 The woman who was driving the vehicle was fatally injured and a man riding in the vehicle was taken to an area hospital with critical injuries. Arkansas Online, 2 Sep. 2025 Giuliani, 81, was hospitalized with a fractured vertebrae and multiple cuts and bruises, including injuries specifically to his left arm and lower leg, after his rent-a-car was hit from behind, spokesman Michael Ragusa said Sunday. Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for injury
Recent Examples of Synonyms for injury
Noun
  • That means having to cut jokes that don't fit his do-no-harm MO.
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Since 1972, The Marine Mammal Protection Act has served as a buffer against this cacophony, giving regulators tools to limit harm and protect species from deadly entanglements, vessel strikes, and industrial noise.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Vogel also advocated for the passage of legislation that eventually acknowledged the injustice of the exile and imprisonment and provided a payment of $20,000 to Japanese American camp survivors.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Any place where there’s injustice.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The tool automatically adjusts its temperature to help prevent heat damage, while its powerful motor dries hair quickly.
    Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That justifies the team orders to right a wrong.
    Rob Reed, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Almost a quarter of a century has passed since the Republic of Ireland last featured in the finals of a World Cup, and the Boys In Green host Hungary on Saturday hoping to right that wrong.
    Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Perhaps, like Elizabeth in the face of Darcy’s insult, Austen would also be prompted to spread spirited gossip about her heroine’s doubters and haters.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • When big gatherings of police and federal agents suddenly show up in residential areas, crowds often meet them with cell phone cameras, righteous indignation and insults.
    Daniel C. Vock, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025

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“Injury.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/injury. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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