Injuryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 injurie, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + iūs, iūris (“right, law”). Doublet of injuria.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɪn.d͡ʒə.ɹi/, /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɹi/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ.i/, /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɹi/
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈɪɲdʒʊri/
• ハイフネーション: in‧ju‧ry

名詞

injury (countable and uncountable, plural injuries)

1. Damage to the body of a living thing.

   The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.

   He got a shoulder injury in the nets three days before the match.

   • 2017 February 17, Dana Santas, “Recovering from surgery or stress? Yoga can help”, in CNN‎:

     Whether you need to recover from a stressful day, a strenuous workout or even an injury or surgery, restorative yoga may be just the thing for you.

   • 2022 August 10, Melanie Radzicki McManus, “How to avoid soft tissue injuries, according to experts”, in CNN‎:

     Soft tissue injuries are the bane of any physically active person. They are the most common injuries in sport, can be difficult to heal and often reoccur, according to Sports Medicine Australia.

2. Other forms of damage sustained by a living thing, e.g. psychologically.
3. The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.

   Slander is an injury to the character.

4. (archaic) Injustice.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:injury

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動詞

injury (third-person singular simple present injuries, present participle injurying, simple past and past participle injuried)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     II.12:

     The best of us doth not so much feare to wrong him, as he doth to injurie his neighbour, his kinsman, or his master.

Further reading

• “injury”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “injury”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

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