Accident vs. Injury — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Accident and Injury
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Definitions
Accident
An instance of involuntary urination or defecation.
Injury
(Law) Violation of the rights of another party for which legal redress is available.
Accident
An accident is an unintended, normally unwanted event that was not directly caused by humans. The term accident implies that nobody should be blamed, but the event may have been caused by unrecognized or unaddressed risks.
Injury
Injury, also known as physical trauma, is damage to the body caused by external force. This may be caused by accidents, falls, hits, weapons, and other causes.
Accident
An unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury
If you are unable to work owing to accident or sickness
He had an accident at the factory
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Injury
An instance of being injured
She suffered an injury to her back
Accident
An event that happens by chance or that is without apparent or deliberate cause
The pregnancy was an accident
It is no accident that Manchester has produced more than its fair share of professional comics
Injury
Damage to a person's feelings
Compensation for injury to feelings
Accident
(in Aristotelian thought) a property of a thing which is not essential to its nature.
Injury
Damage or harm done to or suffered by a person or thing
Escaped from the accident without injury.
A scandal that did considerable injury to the campaign.
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Accident
An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm
An accident on the assembly line.
Car accidents on icy roads.
Injury
A particular form of hurt, damage, or loss
A leg injury.
Accident
An unforeseen event that is not the result of intention or has no apparent cause
A series of happy accidents led to his promotion.
Injury
(Obsolete) An insult.
Accident
Lack of intention; chance
Ran into an old friend by accident.
Injury
Damage to the body of a living thing.
The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.
Accident
(Philosophy) An attribute of a substance that is not essential to its nature.
Injury
Other forms of damage sustained by a living thing, e.g. psychologically.
Accident
An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
To die by an accident such as an act of God
Act of God
Injury
The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.
Slander is an injury to the character.
Accident
(legal) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
Injury
(archaic) Injustice.
Accident
(transportation) A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity.
There was a huge accident on I5 involving 15 automobiles.
My insurance went up after the second accident in three months.
Injury
(obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
Accident
Any chance event.
Injury
Any damage or hurt done to a person or thing; detriment to, or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character.
For he that doeth injury shall receive that that he did evil.
Many times we do injury to a cause by dwelling on trifling arguments.
Riot ascends above their loftiest towers,And injury and outrage.
Accident
(uncountable) Chance; random chance.
Injury
Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
Accident
Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
Beauty is an accident.
Lexical gaps are called accidental because their existence is by accident; it is not essential.
Injury
An accident that results in physical damage or hurt
Accident
(grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
Injury
A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
Accident
(euphemistic) An instance of incontinence.
Injury
An act that injures someone
Accident
Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
Accident
(euphemistic) An unintended pregnancy.
Accident
A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
Taylor was our sweet little accident, and we're so glad!
Well I may be annoying but at least I'm not an accident like you are
Accident
(geology) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
Accident
(geology) A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.{{cite book|
Accident
(heraldry) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
Accident
(transportation) Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident.
The NTSB report revealed that the accident airplane was a Cessna 172.
Accident
Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.
Of moving accidents by flood and field.
Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident:It is the very place God meant for thee.
Accident
A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.
Accident
A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
Accident
A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.
Accident
Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.
This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea.
Accident
Unusual appearance or effect.
Accident
A mishap; especially one causing injury or death
Accident
Anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause
