INDEX:
1. hurt or injured in an accident, fight etc
2. to hurt a part of your body
3. to hurt or injure someone
4. to permanently injure someone
5. damage to a part of the body
6. someone who is injured
7. not hurt or injured
RELATED WORDS
see also
↑ HARM
↑ DAMAGE
↑ ACCIDENT
↑ SHOOT
↑ HIT
↑ PAIN
↑ HOSPITAL
↑ MEDICAL TREATMENT
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1. hurt or injured in an accident, fight etc
▷ be injured/be hurt /biː ˈɪndʒəʳd, biː ˈhɜːʳt/ [verb phrase]
if someone is hurt or is injured, part of their body is damaged, especially in an accident or fight :
▪ ‘Did you hear about that fire in the school?’ ‘Yes, thank God no one was hurt.’
▪ Four people have been injured in a road accident on the Arizona highway.
badly/seriously injured
▪ One man died, and another was seriously injured when a wall on a construction site collapsed.
badly/seriously hurt
▪ Fortunately, the driver of the van was not badly hurt.
slightly injured/hurt
▪ Six soldiers were slightly injured when a grenade exploded in a nearby truck.
get hurt
▪ There were so many people at the match - it was lucky that no one got hurt.
be fatally injured
be injured so badly that someone dies
▪ The motorbike rider, Gregory Watts, was fatally injured in the crash.
▷ be wounded /biː ˈwuːndə̇d/ [verb phrase]
to be injured in a war, a fight etc, by a weapon such as a knife, gun, or bomb :
▪ The man, in his early 30s, was wounded in the stomach after two gunmen opened fire.
be badly/seriously wounded
▪ During the first five months of the war, 10, 000 people died and over 12,000 were seriously wounded.
be fatally wounded
be wounded so badly that someone dies
▪ We heard that my brother had been fatally wounded in the battle, and died two days later.
2. to hurt a part of your body
▷ hurt /hɜːʳt/ [transitive verb]
if you hurt a part of your body, you accidentally damage it so that it feels painful or you cannot move it easily :
▪ Nick’s hurt his back, and the doctor says he will have to rest for a few weeks.
▪ I can’t go running this week - I’ve hurt my foot.
hurt yourself
▪ That’s a sharp knife. Be careful you don’t hurt yourself.
▷ injure /ˈɪndʒəʳ/ [transitive verb]
to hurt a part of your body, especially seriously and in a way that takes a long time to get better :
▪ Tom injured his shoulder playing tennis.
injure yourself
▪ Many elderly people injure themselves in their own homes, for example by slipping in the bath.
▷ bruise /bruːz/ [intransitive/transitive verb]
to hurt a part of your body when you fall or hit it against something, causing a dark, painful mark to form on your skin :
▪ Mom fell on the ice and bruised the side of her leg.
badly bruise
▪ Keller badly bruised a hip, and came off early in the second half of the match.
▪ My skin bruises quite easily.
bruised [adjective]
▪ Some of his teeth were damaged and his jaw was badly bruised.
▷ sprain /spreɪn/ [transitive verb]
to hurt your knee, wrist, or another joint by twisting or pulling it suddenly and awkwardly :
▪ I sprained my knee while I was playing basketball.
▪ You’ll need strong walking boots in the mountains, if you don’t want to sprain an ankle.
sprained [adjective]
▪ Stadler had to withdraw from the tournament, because of a sprained wrist.
▷ break /breɪk/ [transitive verb]
to break a bone in your body :
▪ It was such bad luck - it was our first time skiing and Nicola broke her leg.
broken /ˈbrəʊkən/ [adjective]
▪ Chris escaped from the accident with no more than a broken arm.
▷ twist/wrench /twɪst, rentʃ/ [transitive verb]
to hurt your knee or another joint, by turning it too suddenly or strongly while you are moving :
▪ I couldn’t play, having twisted my knee in the previous night’s game.
▪ The doctor said that I’d wrenched my shoulder and shouldn’t drive for a while.
twisted [adjective]
▪ Scott insisted on coming, despite his twisted ankle.
▷ pull /pʊl/ [transitive verb]
pull a muscle
to injure a muscle by stretching it too much, especially during hard physical activity :
▪ I pulled a muscle trying to move the piano into the apartment.
▪ Crawford had been ordered to take a day’s rest after pulling a leg muscle.
pulled [adjective]
▪ Ted was having treatment for a pulled muscle.
▷ damage /ˈdæmɪdʒ/ [transitive verb] written
to injure a part of your body fairly seriously, especially in a way that means it will take a long time to get better or will never get better :
▪ Lewis damaged his knee in training and will not appear in the game.
▪ When carrying out the operation, doctors have to take great care not to damage the delicate nerve endings.
damaged [adjective]
▪ His damaged left foot will keep him off the field for the rest of the season.
▷ dislocate /ˈdɪsləkeɪt/ [transitive verb]
to injure a joint by falling on it or stretching it so that the two parts of the joint are moved out of their normal position and stay out of position :
▪ Sam dislocated his shoulder in a riding accident.
dislocated [adjective]
▪ The fall left her with several bruises and a dislocated shoulder.
▷ be bleeding /biː ˈbliːdɪŋ/ [verb phrase]
if part of your body is bleeding, blood is coming out of it because you have been injured :
▪ His head was bleeding, and he’d obviously been in a fight.
be bleeding from
▪ John saw that he was bleeding from some sort of wound on his chest.
be bleeding heavily/profusely
a lot of blood is coming out
▪ The cut on her leg had opened again and was bleeding heavily.
3. to hurt or injure someone
▷ hurt /hɜːʳt/ [transitive verb]
to cause physical harm to someone and make them feel pain :
▪ Let go of my arm! You’re hurting me!
▪ Dan was a good man. He’d never hurt anyone deliberately.
hurt somebody with something
▪ Put the stick down, Terry. You might hurt someone with it.
▷ injure /ˈɪndʒəʳ/ [transitive verb]
to cause physical harm to someone, for example in an accident or fight :
▪ The bomb killed eleven people and injured 55.
badly/seriously/critically injure
▪ Several shots were fired, critically injuring three women.
▷ wound /wuːnd/ [transitive verb]
to injure someone with a weapon such as a knife or gun, causing cuts, bleeding etc :
▪ Two boys were on trial for wounding a sixteen-year-old girl with a revolver.
wound somebody in the chest/knee etc
▪ The bullet wounded him in the shoulder.
▷ inflict pain /ɪnˌflɪkt ˈpeɪn/ [verb phrase] formal
to deliberately hurt a person or an animal :
▪ Inflicting pain as a means of teaching children discipline is wrong.
inflict pain on
▪ Most drugs can be produced quite successfully without inflicting pain on helpless animals.
4. to permanently injure someone
▷ cripple /ˈkrɪp ə l/ [transitive verb]
to injure someone’s legs or back so that they can never move or walk properly again :
▪ The driver, who had been taking drugs, crippled the young woman for life.
▪ Richard was crippled in the bombing of 1984, and had been in a wheelchair ever since.
crippled [adjective not usually before noun]
▪ He came home from Africa crippled, his career in the army over.
▷ maim /meɪm/ [transitive verb]
to injure someone very seriously and permanently, especially in an accident or deliberate attack :
▪ Surely terrorists cannot believe that killing and maiming ordinary people is an achievement?
maimed []
▪ Of those who survived, most were sick, physically maimed, or mentally impaired.
5. damage to a part of the body
▷ injury /ˈɪndʒəri/ [countable/uncountable noun]
▪ The glass roof collapsed onto the crowd, causing horrific injuries.
▪ Our insurance provides cover in the case of illness or injury.
leg/back etc injury
▪ Unfortunately, she had to withdraw from the game because of a leg injury.
serious injury
▪ Wearing a helmet may protect you from serious injury.
suffer an injury
be injured
▪ He suffered serious injuries in the car crash, and died on the way to hospital.
escape injury
not be injured
▪ Ten passengers were lucky to escape injury when their train was derailed last night.
injury to your leg/chest etc
▪ Morrison had to undergo surgery on an injury to his left knee.
▷ wound /wuːnd/ [countable noun]
an injury caused by a weapon such as a knife, gun, or bomb :
deep wound
▪ The wound was deep and needed eighteen stitches.
bullet/stab/gunshot etc wound
▪ Barratt was taken to the hospital with stab wounds to his chest and neck.
wound to the leg/chest etc
▪ He died of a single gunshot wound to the left side of his head.
▷ bruise /bruːz/ [countable noun]
a dark, painful mark on your skin where you have fallen or been hit :
▪ Jenny looked as though she’d been crying, and there was a nasty bruise on her cheek.
be covered in cuts and bruises
▪ Jack often comes home from rugby covered in cuts and bruises.
▷ sprain /spreɪn/ [countable noun]
an injury in which you hurt a joint by twisting or pulling it suddenly and awkwardly :
▪ It’s a slight sprain - you should rest it for a few days.
ankle/shoulder/knee etc sprain
▪ Robinson is suffering from an ankle sprain, and can’t train this week.
▷ damage /ˈdæmɪdʒ/ [uncountable noun] written
an injury that will take a long time to get better or that may never get better :
▪ Never look straight at the sun. Any damage to the retina could cause permanent blindness.
▪ Rubella is a serious infection, which can cause severe physical damage to the unborn child.
6. someone who is injured
▷ injured /ˈɪndʒəʳd/ [adjective]
hurt in an accident, fight etc :
▪ Firefighters had to cut off the roof of the car, so that the injured man could be lifted out.
the injured
people who are injured
▪ The injured were rushed to St Thomas’s Hospital.
▷ wounded /ˈwuːndɪd, ˈwuːndəd/ [adjective]
injured, especially in a war, by a weapon such as a knife, gun, or bomb :
▪ a wounded soldier
▪ There are over 4000 refugees in the camp, many of them wounded.
the wounded
people who are wounded
▪ Helicopters have been sent in to rescue the wounded from the war zone.
▷ paralysed also paralyzed American /ˈpærəlaɪzd/ [adjective]
unable to move part or all of your body because of a serious injury or illness :
▪ Mrs Burrows had been paralysed by a stroke, and could not move or speak.
leave somebody paralysed
▪ The fall had left him permanently paralysed.
be paralysed from the neck/chest/waist down
▪ Paralysed from the neck down, Bundini could only move his eyes.
▷ casualty /ˈkæʒuəlti/ [countable noun usually plural]
someone who has been injured or killed in a war, attack, or accident :
▪ The bomb caused serious damage to the building, but there were no casualties.
suffer casualties
▪ Indian troops have suffered more than 1200 casualties.
7. not hurt or injured
▷ unhurt /ʌnˈhɜːʳt/ [adjective not before noun]
to not be hurt, even though you have been in a dangerous situation such as an accident :
▪ The driver of the car was unhurt, but his passenger was killed.
escape unhurt
▪ Six day trippers escaped unhurt when their hot air balloon hit power lines.
otherwise unhurt
apart from a condition that is not serious or physical
▪ The younger woman was suffering from shock but was otherwise unhurt.
shaken/shocked but unhurt
shocked, but not physically hurt
▪ The two youths, shaken but unhurt, declined to talk about the incident.
▷ unharmed /ʌnˈhɑːʳmd/ [adjective not before noun]
to not be hurt or harmed, even though you have been in a dangerous situation :
▪ The hostages were released unharmed some time afterwards.
escape unharmed
▪ All fourteen people who were working inside the building when the blaze started escaped unharmed.
▷ without a scratch /wɪðˌaʊt ə ˈskrætʃ/ [adverb] informal
if you have a dangerous experience and escape from it without a scratch, you do not have any injury at all, because you have been very lucky :
walk away/escape without a scratch
▪ All four people in the car were seriously hurt, but the truck driver walked away without a scratch.
▷ in one piece /ɪn ˌwʌn ˈpiːs/ [adjective phrase not before noun] informal
not seriously hurt in a war, accident etc :
▪ Unlike Ed, Josh returned from the war in one piece.
all in one piece
▪ I was extremely relieved when my son came back from the warzone all in one piece.
▷ walk away from /ˌwɔːk əˈweɪ frɒm/ [verb phrase]
to not get injured in a very dangerous situation you have been involved in, because you have been very lucky - used especially in news reports :
▪ I can hardly believe they were able to just walk away from the crash -- I thought they’d all been killed.
▷ unscathed /ʌnˈskeɪðd/ [adjective not before noun] written
not injured at all, even though you have had a dangerous experience :
▪ The bullet grazed the side of his head, leaving him virtually unscathed.
escape/emerge/come out of something unscathed
▪ Most of the passengers escaped from the plane unscathed.
▷ come to no harm/not come to any harm /ˌkʌm tə ˌnəʊ ˈhɑːʳm, nɒt ˌkʌm tʊ ˌeni ˈhɑːʳm/ [verb phrase]
use this to say that someone will not be hurt if they do something, or was not hurt by doing something, going somewhere etc :
▪ If you keep quiet, you’ll come to no harm.
▪ I’m sure Craig’s old enough to catch a train into town without coming to any harm.
▪ Fortunately, none of the hostages came to any serious harm.