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Injured   /ˈɪndʒərd/   Listen
adjective
injured  adj.  
1.
Having received an injury; usually used of physical or mental injury to persons. Opposite of uninjured. (Narrower terms: abraded, scraped, skinned; battle-scarred, scarred; bit, bitten, stung; black-and-blue, livid; bruised, contused, contusioned; bruised, hurt, wounded; burned; cut, gashed, slashed, split; disabled, hors de combat, out of action; disjointed, dislocated, separated; hurt, wounded; lacerated, mangled, torn; maimed, mutilated) Also See: broken, damaged, damaged, impaired, unsound, wronged.
2.
Subjected to an injustice.
Synonyms: aggrieved.






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"Injured" Quotes from Famous Books



... sent for him. He went at once, for he was preparing, with Joe, to go to the injured horse. Mrs. Hempstead took him to Miss Farnsworth's room, and stayed stiffly by while he crossed to the bed where the girl lay, still in her riding habit. As he came to her she held ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various

... Mamsie," repeated Joel, in a very injured tone. "I called just like this, 'come quick! and ride in Miss Parrott's coach;' ...
— The Adventures of Joel Pepper • Margaret Sidney

... Hockin replied, perceiving my distress at this view of the subject, "I should have done exactly what you did. If the laws of this country ordain that women are to carry them out against great strong men, who, after all, have been sadly injured, why, it proves that women ought to make the laws, which to ...
— Erema - My Father's Sin • R. D. Blackmore

... four beds in the cabin proper were full, and some slept on floor mattresses. Lescott, because a guest and wounded, was given a small room aside. Samson, however, shared his quarters in order to perform any service that an injured man might require. It had been a full and unusual day for the painter, and its incidents crowded in on him in retrospect and drove off the possibility of sleep. Samson, too, seemed wakeful, and in the isolation ...
— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck

... they kept on calling to him, the belief that he had perished was confirmed, and very soon spread about the town. But he had only fainted, and at the end of a certain time he began to come to himself, and moaned, whereupon he was discovered, dazed with the blow, and injured, though not seriously, in several parts of his body. He had been saved by little short of a miracle: a beam had broken in half and had left each of its two ends in the side walls; and one of these had formed ...
— The Borgias - Celebrated Crimes • Alexandre Dumas, Pere


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