Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - injured

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. An injured person or animal has physical damage to part of their body, usually as a result of an accident or fighting. The other injured man had a superficial stomach wound... Many of them will have died because they were so badly injured. ADJ • The injured are people who are injured. Army helicopters tried to evacuate the injured. N-PLURAL: the N 2. If you have injured feelings, you feel upset because you believe someone has been unfair or unkind to you. ...a look of injured pride. = hurt ADJ