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injury
English
Etymology
From Middle English injurie, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin ini?ria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + i?s, i?ris (“right, law”). Doublet of injuria.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??n.d??.?i/, /??n.d??i/
- (US) IPA(key): /??n.d??.?i/, /??n.d??i/
Noun
injury (countable and uncountable, plural injuries)
- Damage to the body of a human or animal.
- The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.
- The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.
- Slander is an injury to the character.
- (archaic) Injustice.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:injury
Related terms
- injure
- injurious
Translations
See also
- damage
- detriment
- evil
- harm
- hurt
- impairment
- injustice
- loss
- mischief
- wrong
Verb
injury (third-person singular simple present injuries, present participle injurying, simple past and past participle injuried)
- (obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
- II.12:
- The best of us doth not so much feare to wrong him, as he doth to injurie his neighbour, his kinsman, or his master.
- II.12:
Further reading
- injury in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- injury in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Ry?jin
Middle English
Noun
injury
- Alternative form of injurie
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scar
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: skär, IPA(key): /sk??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sk??(?)/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English scar, scarre, a conflation of Old French escare (“scab”) (from Late Latin eschara, from Ancient Greek ?????? (eskhára, “scab left from a burn”), and thus a doublet of eschar) and Middle English skar (“incision, cut, fissure”) (from Old Norse skarð (“notch, chink, gap”), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz (“gap, cut, fragment”)). Akin to Old Norse skor (“notch, score”), Old English s?eard (“gap, cut, notch”). More at shard.
Displaced native Old English dolgswæþ.
Noun
scar (plural scars)
- A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
- (by extension) A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience.
- Any permanent mark resulting from damage.
- 1961, Dorothy Jensen Neal, Captive mountain waters: a story of pipelines and people (page 29)
- Her age-old weapons, flood and fire, left scars on the canyon which time will never efface.
- 1961, Dorothy Jensen Neal, Captive mountain waters: a story of pipelines and people (page 29)
Synonyms
- cicatrice, cicatrix
Related terms
- fire scar
- scar tissue
Translations
Verb
scar (third-person singular simple present scars, present participle scarring, simple past and past participle scarred)
- (transitive) To mark the skin permanently.
- (intransitive) To form a scar.
- (transitive, figuratively) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.
- Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.
Derived terms
- battle-scarred
Translations
See also
- birthmark
Etymology 2
From Middle English scarre, skarr, skerre, sker, a borrowing from Old Norse sker (“an isolated rock in the sea; skerry”). Cognate with Icelandic sker, Norwegian skjær, Swedish skär, Danish skær, German Schäre. Doublet of skerry.
Noun
scar (plural scars)
- A cliff or rock outcrop.
- A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.
- A bare rocky place on the side of a hill or mountain.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Latin scarus (“a kind of fish”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (skáros, “parrot wrasse, Sparisoma cretense, syn. Scarus cretensis”).
Noun
scar (plural scars)
- A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae).
Anagrams
- CRAs, RACs, arcs, ascr., cars, csar, sacr-, sarc-
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish scaraid, from Proto-Celtic *skarati, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ska??/
Verb
scar (present analytic scarann, future analytic scarfaidh, verbal noun scaradh, past participle scartha)
- (transitive) sever
- (transitive) separate
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 194:
- Synonyms: dealaigh, deighil
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 194:
- (transitive) tear asunder
Conjugation
- Alternative verbal noun: scarúint (Munster)
Derived terms
- soscartha (“easily separated; isolable”, adjective)
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “scaraid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “scaraim” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 602.
- "scar" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “scar” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- “scar” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- ·scart
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skar/
Verb
·scar
- third-person singular preterite conjunct of scaraid
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