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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Injury \In"ju*ry\, noun; pl. {Injuries}. [OE. injurie, L. injuria, fr. injurius injurious, wrongful, unjust; pref. in- not + jus, juris, right, law, justice: cf. F. injure. See {Just}, a.] Any damage or hurt done to a person or thing; detriment to, or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character.
For he that doeth injury shall receive that that he did evil. --Wyclif(Col. iii. 25).
Many times we do injury to a cause by dwelling on trifling arguments. --I. Watts.
Riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage. --Milton.
Note: Injury in morals and jurisprudence is the intentional doing of wrong. --Fleming.
Syn: Harm; hurt; damage; loss; impairment; detriment; wrong; evil; injustice.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
injury
noun
1: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. [syn: {hurt}, {harm}, {trauma}]
2: an accident that results in physical damage or hurt [syn: {accidental injury}]
3: a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat [syn: {wound}, {combat injury}]
4: an act that injures someone
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
236 Moby Thesaurus words for "injury": abomination, abrasion, abuse, ache, aching, affront, agony, aspersion, atrocity, bad, bane, bankruptcy, befoulment, bereavement, blemish, blight, blow, breach, break, breakage, breakdown, brickbat, burn, chafe, check, chip, collapse, concussion, contempt, contumely, corruption, cost, crack, crack-up, crackle, cramp, craze, crime, crime against humanity, crippling, crying evil, cut, damage, dead loss, deadly sin, debit, defilement, delinquency, denial, denudation, deprivation, dereliction, despite, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, detriment, dilapidation, disablement, disadvantage, discomfiture, dispossession, disrepair, disservice, distress, divestment, dolor, drawback, dump, encroachment, enormity, error, evil, expense, failure, fault, felony, flash burn, flout, flouting, forfeit, forfeiture, fracture, fray, frazzle, gall, gash, genocide, gibe, great wrong, grief, grievance, gross injustice, guilty act, handicap, harm, havoc, heavy sin, hobbling, humiliation, hurt, hurting, ill, ill-treatment, ill-usage, ill-use, impairment, imposition, impropriety, incapacitation, incision, indignity, indiscretion, inexpiable sin, infection, infringement, iniquity, injustice, inroad, insult, jeer, jeering, laceration, lapse, lesion, liability, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, loss of ground, maiming, malefaction, malfeasance, maltreatment, malum, mayhem, minor wrong, miscarriage of justice, mischief, misdeed, misdemeanor, misery, misfeasance, mistreatment, mock, mockery, molestation, mortal sin, mortal wound, mutilation, nasty blow, nonfeasance, offense, omission, outrage, pain, pang, passion, peccadillo, peccancy, perdition, poison, pollution, prejudice, privation, puncture, put-down, raw deal, rent, rip, robbery, ruin, ruination, ruinousness, run, rupture, sabotage, sacrifice, scald, scathe, scoff, scorch, scrape, scratch, scuff, scurrility, second-degree burn, shock, sickening, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slash, slip, sore, sore spot, spasm, spoiling, spoliation, stab, stab wound, step backward, stress, stress of life, stripping, stroke, suffering, taking away, taunt, tear, tender spot, the worst, third-degree burn, throes, tort, total loss, toxin, transgression, trauma, trespass, trip, uncomplimentary remark, unutterable sin, venial sin, venom, vexation, violation, violence, weakening, woe, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench, wrong
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
INJURY, noun An offense next in degree of enormity to a slight.
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