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UNINJURED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does uninjured mean?
• UNINJURED (adjective)
The adjective UNINJURED has 1 sense:
1. not injured physically or mentally
Familiarity information: UNINJURED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not injured physically or mentally
Similar:
intact; inviolate ((of a woman) having the hymen unbroken)
uncut (not cut)
unharmed; unhurt; unscathed; whole (not injured or harmed)
unwounded (not wounded)
Also:
unbroken (not broken; whole and intact; in one piece)
undamaged (not harmed or spoiled; sound)
unimpaired (not damaged or diminished in any respect)
safe (free from danger or the risk of harm)
sound (financially secure and safe)
Antonym:
injured (harmed)
Context examples
Nor was his uninjured hand behind his back hiding something.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
When they were fast, bow and stern, and the two uninjured men prepared to come aboard, the hunter picked up his rifle as if to place it in a secure position.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
University of California, Los Angeles scientists used a novel method known as Drop-seq to closely look at individual brain cells in the hippocampus, a region involved in learning and memory, after TBI or in uninjured control animals.
(Every cell has a story to tell in brain injury, National Institutes of Health)
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