injuries

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of injury.

   The coach kept a detailed record of every player's injuries throughout the season.

   Doctors triaged the most life-threatening injuries first.

   Note

   The plural belongs to the countable uses of injury, where each wound or wrong is counted separately: injuries to the knee, injuries to someone's reputation or rights. When injury names harm in general, as in a risk of injury, it normally stays singular. The spelling follows the regular rule for a consonant plus y. The same spelling also serves an obsolete verb form.

2. 2
   verbobsolete

   Third-person singular simple present of injury.

   Note

   An obsolete form: injury once served as a transitive verb meaning to wrong someone, and this is its present tense with he, she or it. Modern English uses injure for that job, so a present-day writer says the frost injures the shoots. Outside deliberate archaism, injuries used as a verb will read as a mistake for injures.

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