All injury synonyms

noun injury

• shock — a thick, bushy mass, as of hair.
• loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
• cramp — Cramp is a sudden strong pain caused by a muscle suddenly contracting. You sometimes get cramp in a muscle after you have been making a physical effort over a long period of time.
• cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
• bruise — A bruise is an injury which appears as a purple mark on your body, although the skin is not broken.
• burn — If there is a fire or a flame somewhere, you say that there is a fire or flame burning there.
• wound — the act of winding.
• damage — To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
• laceration — the result of lacerating; a rough, jagged tear.
• sore — suffering bodily pain from wounds, bruises, etc., as a person: He is sore because of all that exercise.
• suffering — the state of a person or thing that suffers.
• abuse — Abuse of someone is cruel and violent treatment of them.
• trauma — Pathology. a body wound or shock produced by sudden physical injury, as from violence or accident. the condition produced by this; traumatism.
• fracture — the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Compare comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, simple fracture.
• swelling — the act of swelling or the condition of being swollen.
• scar — a precipitous, rocky place; cliff.
• sprain — to overstrain or wrench (the ligaments of an ankle, wrist, or other joint) so as to injure without fracture or dislocation.
• deformation — the act of deforming; distortion
• mutilation — to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
• grievance — a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• scratch — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
• sting — to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
• pang — a sudden feeling of mental or emotional distress or longing: a pang of remorse; a pang of desire.
• affliction — An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
• mischief — conduct or activity that playfully causes petty annoyance.
• hemorrhage — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
• slander — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
• agony — Agony is great physical or mental pain.
• bite — If you bite something, you use your teeth to cut into it, for example in order to eat it or break it. If an animal or person bites you, they use their teeth to hurt or injure you.
• bad — If you say that it is bad that something happens, you mean it is unacceptable, unfortunate, or wrong.
• insult — to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront.
• nick — Old Nick.
• injustice — the quality or fact of being unjust; inequity.
• libel — the false accusation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals: blood libels that spread throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
• outrage — an act of wanton cruelty or violence; any gross violation of law or decency.
• impairment — the state of being diminished, weakened, or damaged, especially mentally or physically: cognitive impairment in older adults.
• gash — a long, deep wound or cut; slash.
• lesion — an injury; hurt; wound.
• indignity — an injury to a person's dignity; slighting or contemptuous treatment; humiliating affront, insult, or injury.
• twinge — a sudden, sharp pain: On damp days, he's often bothered by a twinge of rheumatism.
• abrasion — An abrasion is an area on a person's body where the skin has been scraped.
• wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
• stab — to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
• discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
• disservice — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
• blemish — A blemish is a small mark on something that spoils its appearance.
• affront — If something affronts you, you feel insulted and hurt because of it.
• ill — of unsound physical or mental health; unwell; sick: She felt ill, so her teacher sent her to the nurse.
• chop — If you chop something, you cut it into pieces with strong downward movements of a knife or an axe.