What is the difference about injury,wound and hurt?
What is the difference about meaning of injury,wound and hurt?
Do they have different meanings?
When can you use them?
For example:
How is your injury?
How is your wound?
How is your hurt?
Are they all correct?
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Answers · 8
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How is your injury?correct
How is your wound?correct
How is your hurt?incorrect
Yes, "wound" can be a noun. Example: I have a wound.
As a verb: He wounded me
"Hurt" is mainly used as a verb
Examples: He hurt me
I hurt. I am hurt because you hit me.
(you can't do that with wound or injure.)
You can also use "injure" as a verb
He injured me.
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Here are definitions.
injury (noun) - physical harm or damage to someone's body caused by an accident or an attack
a head/back/knee injury
Several train passengers received/sustained serious injuries in the crash.
Injuries to the spine are common amongst these workers.
They were lucky to escape (without) injury.
wound (noun) - a damaged area of the body, such as a cut or hole in the skin or flesh made by a weapon
a gunshot wound
a chest/leg wound
a flesh (= not deep) wound
He died from multiple stab wounds to the neck and upper body.
hurt (noun) - emotional pain
The hurt after a relationship breaks up can be awful.
Her brave smile concealed a deep hurt.
You can use 'injury' and 'hurt' as verbs as well.
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The first two are correct and the last one is not since "hurt" is a verb. Injury in most cases describes a wound that puts a person in a handicapped status. Wound can mean any harm or damage dealt to a person. Hurt means pain. So a broken bone is an injury and a wound but a tiny cut can be a wound but not an injury.
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Thank you for telling me the detailed answers.
These all were very useful for me :)
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