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Used with adjectives:
"
He suffered a bad injury in the accident."
(bad, catastrophic, devastating, horrendous, major, serious, severe, terrible)
"
She sustained multiple injuries when she fell off the roof."
(multiple, extensive, minor, slight)
"
He suffered a facial injury while skiing."
(facial, head, knee, leg, spinal)
"
That baseball player suffered a career-ending injury."
(career-ending, season-ending, career-threatening)
"
My knee hurts from a sports injury."
(sports, sports-related, work-related)
"
The collision caused permanent injury."
(permanent, long-term, internal, bodily)
"
She suffered a fatal injury in the car crash."
(fatal)
Used with verbs:
"
He suffered a head injury."
(suffered, sustained, had, experienced)
"
Her reckless driving caused serious injury to the passenger."
(caused, resulted in)
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Do not risk injury by climbing that tall tree."
(risk)
"
He was accused of faking an injury."
(faking)
"
Wearing a bicycle helmet can help avoid injury."
(avoid, prevent)
"
Sadly his father died from multiple injuries."
(died from, died of)
"
The injury ended his football career."
(ended, shortened, ruined, destroyed)
"
Her injuries are healing well."
(be + healing)
"
How did the injury occur?"
(occur, happen)
Used with nouns:
"
The team suffered lots of injury problems."
(problems)
"
She taught a class on injury prevention."
(prevention)
"
The doctor asked for his injury history."
(history)
"
What is the injury risk associated with this sport?"
(risk, rate)
"
He filed an injury claim."
(claim, case, lawsuit, report)
Used with prepositions:
"
He continued to play through his knee injury."
(through, with)
"
John suffered injuries from the fire."
(from, in)
"
She suffered an injury to her spinal cord."
(to)
