injured

/'indʤəd/

Thân thiện

The paramedic carefully treats an injured hiker's ankle.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Physically harmed: Having suffered damage or wounding to the body.
   • Emotionally hurt: Having suffered harm to one's feelings, pride, or dignity; offended.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The injured player was carried off the field. (The player who was physically hurt was taken away.)
  • She spoke in an injured tone after the criticism. (She spoke in a tone that showed she felt emotionally hurt.)

Advanced Usage

• "to feel injured": to feel wronged or unfairly treated.
  • He felt injured by their lack of trust. (He felt wronged because they did not trust him.)
• "the injured party": the person or group who has been wronged or harmed in a dispute or accident.
  • The court will compensate the injured party. (The court will pay damages to the person who was harmed.)

Variants and Related Words

• Injure (verb): To cause physical or emotional harm.
  • Careless words can injure someone's feelings.
• Injury (noun): An instance of being injured; a wound or damage.
  • He suffered a serious injury to his leg.

Synonyms

• Hurt: To cause pain or injury (verb); physically or emotionally damaged (adjective).
• Wounded: Injured, especially by a cut or break in the skin.
• Wronged: Treated unjustly or harmed morally.

Related Phrases

• Injured pride: A feeling of being humiliated or having one's self-respect damaged.
  • His injured pride prevented him from apologizing. (His damaged self-respect stopped him from saying sorry.)
• Injured look/expression: A facial expression showing that one feels offended or hurt.
  • She gave him an injured look when he forgot her birthday.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. harmed
   • injured soldiers
   • injured feelings