injury

Definition

Examples

He missed two weeks of work because of a back injury.

Word Family

Synonyms

• woundan injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
• traumaany physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc
• damagethe occurrence of a change for the worse

Collocations

• Easy head injury
  to head injury, meaning to to go or travel towards
• Medium workplace injury compensation claim
  describing workplace injury compensation claim (a place where work is done)
• Hard career-ending injury in accident
  a collocation phrase: career-ending injury in accident
• Very Hard redress for catastrophic bodily injury
  to redress for catastrophic bodily injury, meaning to make reparations or amends for