Is injur a word? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Am I going crazy? I think "injur" must be a transitive verb meaning "to cause injury to," as in "the flying debris might injur the bystanders " Yet when I google around and check online dictionaries, I get results saying in effect, "did you mean 'injury', or 'incur', etc ?" Also, the spell checker on WordPerfect X5 doesn't recognize the word
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Why do victims “sustain” injuries? - English Language Usage Stack . . . It comes from the sense of suffer, and surely you can see how someone would suffer an injury From Etymonline: c 1300, "give support to," from stem of Old French sostenir "hold up, bear; suffer, endure" (13c ), from Latin sustinere "hold up, hold upright; furnish with means of support; bear, undergo, endure," from assimilated form of sub "up from below" (see sub-) + tenere "to hold," from PIE