bodily injury

collocation in English

meaningsofbodilyandinjury

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bodily
adjective
uk
/ˈbɒd.əl.i/us
/ˈbɑː.dəl.i/
relating to the ...
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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 ofbodilyandinjuryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The textual unfixity of hisbodilyinjuryinsinuates its lingeringly irregular character, even though his body has ostensibly healed.
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Are any of these conditions of terror worse for their victims than death or gravebodilyinjury, keeping constant the number of people affected?
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Before the compacts were made, there was a dispute over rights: abodilyinjuryin one case, the appearance of a court official in the other.
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The position concerning the application of national victim law to determine damages in the case of accidents causingbodilyinjuryshould also be supported.
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Moreover, the scale is paid for anybodilyinjurycertified by the medical authority to be equivalent to the loss of a limb.
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He intends to use it to causebodilyinjury, but for a justifiable purpose.
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It may be extremely confidential; it may expose people to risk of life orbodilyinjury.
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You ought not to wait until one of them has caused seriousbodilyinjurybefore you enquire.
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In matters of safety involved in dealing with complicated machinery which can causebodilyinjury, we must err on the side of caution.
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There is also a desperate need to cater for public and employer liability, particularly in the area ofbodilyinjury.
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I suggest that there will be an increasing liability in respect ofbodilyinjurydue, for example, to defects.
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We already have a regulation establishing the limits of air carriers' liability to pay damages in the event of death andbodilyinjury.
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In connection with human suffering frombodilyinjury, there are perhaps three kinds of damages.
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All motor insurance policies now cover owners and drivers against liabilities for death of, orbodilyinjuryto.
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I am, of course, referring tobodilyinjury.
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We merely need to extend the principle tobodilyinjuryfrom road accidents, as many other countries do with great success.
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Any other offence involvingbodilyinjuryto a child or young person.
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Clause 34 defines the class of person who may issue insurance policies and the liability which must be assumed—that is, death orbodilyinjury.
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