INJURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does injured mean? 

• INJURED (adjective)
  The adjective INJURED has 2 senses:

1. harmed

2. emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed

  Familiarity information: INJURED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INJURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Harmed

Context example:

injured soldiers

Similar:

battle-scarred (scarred by battle)

black-and-blue; livid (discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin)

disjointed; dislocated; separated (separated at the joint)

eviscerate (having been disembowelled)

hurt; wounded (suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle)

lacerate; lacerated; mangled; torn (having edges that are jagged from injury)

raw (having the surface exposed and painful)

Also:

broken (physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split)

damaged (harmed or injured or spoiled)

impaired (diminished in strength, quality, or utility)

unsound (not sound financially)

Antonym:

uninjured (not injured physically or mentally)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed

Synonyms:

injured; offended; pained

Context example:

injured feelings

Similar:

displeased (not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure)

 Context examples 

His efforts were so vigorous, I thought he could not be much hurt; but I asked him the question—Are you injured, sir?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Within the first day of injury, immune cells from the blood called inflammatory monocytes entered the core of the injured meningeal tissue and started clearing away dead cells.

(Scientists watch the brain’s lining heal after a head injury, National Institutes of Health)

Injured rats treated with morphine were sensitive for longer and to a higher degree; lighter touches caused them to withdraw their paws from the stimulus more often than saline-treated animals.

(Opioid Pain Relievers May Prolong Pain, NIH)

The process helps the immune system detect whether an organ is under attack from bacteria or viruses or has been injured.

(NIH researchers uncover drain pipes in our brains, National Institutes of Health)

The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“He is a deeply-injured man, Miss Dartle,” I replied.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The injured hip is turned outward and the leg appears shorter on that side.

(Hip Fracture, NCI Thesaurus)

And nine years, Catherine knew, was a trifle of time, compared with what generally elapsed after the death of an injured wife, before her room was put to rights.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Also, he recinched the injured ankle and prepared himself for a day of travel.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Early reconstitution of a lost or injured part.

(Early Regeneration, NCI Thesaurus)