grave injury

collocation in English

meaningsofgraveandinjury

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grave
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪv/us
/ɡreɪv/
seriously ...
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injury
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈɪn.dʒər.i/us
/ˈɪn.dʒər.i/
physical harm or damage to someone's body caused by an accident or ...
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(Definition ofgraveandinjuryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgrave injury

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It must be fear of something very bad, such as death orgraveinjuryto self or others.
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Is there any major labour dispute which does not cause "graveinjuryto the national economy"?
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I submit that it is also very dangerous abroad, and is calculated to do usgraveinjuryabroad.
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They may inflictgraveinjury, and the persons who suffer from those injuries will have no remedy at all for damages caused by them.
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I think it has donegraveinjuryto this country in business circles throughout the world.
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I venture to think, also, that if you will mix up political matters with trade unions you dograveinjuryto your trade unions.
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It would, thereby, do agraveinjuryto public health.
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In the vicinity of welfare clinics there is the danger ofgraveinjuryoccurring to small children.
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They cannot be cut down beyond a point withoutgraveinjuryto home food production.
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It is useless, therefore, to expect to be able to transport persons withgraveinjuryany distance.
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If it is not, agraveinjurywill be done to him.
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I think that he, and those who took that view, did a verygraveinjuryto the cause of peace in the world.
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It is fundamentally absurd to think that you can put that through without committinggraveinjuryto the electorate.
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Every day that there was fighting or civil instability was agraveinjuryto our economic situation in this country.
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I am not passing judgment on their cause, but they inflictgraveinjuryon our industrial performance.
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We could not follow that policy ourselves without riskinggraveinjury.
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In my view, it would causegraveinjuryto the appearance of this world-famous area.
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Therefore, media concentration jeopardises freedom of conscience and is agraveinjuryto human dignity.
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Agraveinjuryto the health of the children would inevitably result.
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One can see that they are capable of causinggraveinjuryto the birds involved in the fighting.
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