nounWord forms: plural -ries1. physical damage or hurt
2. a specific instance of this
a leg injury
3. harm done to a reputation
4. law a violation or infringement of another person's rights that causes him or her harmand is actionable at law
5. an obsolete word for insult
Word origin
C14: from Latin
injūria injustice, wrong, from
injūriōsus acting unfairly, wrongful, from
in-1 +
jūs right