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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



... John. I might hev knowed it was one of yer deceitful tricks", said Aunt Esther, trying to conceal her amusement, by putting on an injured look. "There, the fire burns now. Yer jest put on them dry clothes as quick as ever yer can, or mebbe ye'll lose another friend ...
— Adele Dubois - A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick • Mrs. William T. Savage
... of his energies. Too often from the standpoint of the psychologist, the prescription is simply rest. As far as rest involves sleep, it is certainly the ideal prescription. There is no other influence which builds up the injured central nervous system as safely as sound natural sleep, and loss of sleep is certainly one of the most pernicious conditions for the brain. Again rest is a great factor in those systematic rest cures which for a long while were almost the fashion ...
— Psychotherapy • Hugo Muensterberg
... beliefs prevalent at the time was the belief in lycanthropy, that is, that certain individuals can, under certain conditions, change their bodily shape, and appear as animals to persons at a distance! Frequently this animal would be injured, in which case the person whom the animal represented would be found to be injured in the same way, and in exactly the same place. The witch in such cases would frequently be lying at home in bed in a trance state, while her "fluidic double," in the shape ...
— The Problems of Psychical Research - Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal • Hereward Carrington
... Treatise on the Art of Illumination, written in the year 1525." This MS. is said by Edward Rowe Mores, in his Dissertation upon English Typographical Founders, to have been in the possession of Humphrey Wanley, who by its help "refreshed the injured or decayed illuminations in the library of the Earl of Oxford." The MS. was transcribed by Miss Elstob in 1710, and a copy of her transcript was in the possession of Mr. George Ballard. Where ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 35, June 29, 1850 • Various
... after what had happened she had in her secret heart come round to the same opinion so far as the baiting of the trap was concerned. She was far too cast down to make any reply and wept copiously, purely through injured pride and humiliation. ...
— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce


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