Collocations for "injured"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "injured" in context.
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injure
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- injured his [leg, arm, knee, elbow]
- (was) injured [playing, practicing, doing, attempting]
- injured myself (while) [playing]
- injured playing [football, soccer, with the kids]
- injured in the [match, race, warm-up, accident]
- injured in [a car crash, an accident, a car accident, a crash]
- injured on the [field, battlefield, pitch]
- injured at [home, work, school]
- injured as a result of
- injured when the car she was driving [collided, hit, was]
- injured by [debris, friendly fire, the tackle]
- injured by a [fall, third party]
- injured by accident
- [severely, slightly, gravely] injured
- (didn't mean to) injure your feelings
- [could, might, won't] injure your chances
'injured' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
ambush
- ankle
- attack
- backbone
- backlash
- badly
- battle
- blast
- blaze
- brain
- brawl
- bull
- carry
- collapse
- crash
- crush
- dart
- dead
- debris
- distressed
- eight
- extract
- falling
- favor
- fifteen
- fight
- five
- foot
- forty
- four
- fourteen
- groin
- harm
- hideous
- hoof
- hundred
- ill
- injure
- inmate
- internal
- kill
- knee
- knight
- leg
- limb
- lot
- lung
- match
- miracle
- misery