Meaning & use
reinjury
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Meaning
nouncountable or uncountablemedicalsport
A new injury to a part of the body that was already hurt and may not have fully healed.
Grammar: Countable for one event (a reinjury), uncountable for the general risk (the risk of reinjury).
Patterns
- risk of reinjury
- suffer a reinjury
The runner returned slowly to avoid a reinjury of her knee.
Poor rest often leads to reinjury.
The doctor warned about the risk of reinjury if he played too soon.
Word forms
| plural | reinjuries |
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Common combinations
- risk of reinjury
- The risk of reinjury is highest in the first month.
- prevent reinjury
- Stretching can help prevent reinjury.
- suffer a reinjury
- He suffered a reinjury in training.
- avoid reinjury
- Rest helps avoid reinjury.
- fear of reinjury
- Her fear of reinjury slowed her comeback.
Synonyms and how they differ
- relapse
- Relapse is a return of an illness or condition, while reinjury is a second physical injury.
- setback
- Setback is general and may be any problem, not necessarily physical.
- recurrence
- Recurrence means something happening again, while reinjury names the second injury specifically.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: reinjury or reinsure?
reinjury vs reinsure
Reinsure is a finance term for insuring a risk again, not related to injury.
Practice
Why did the physiotherapist tell him to rest?
Choose one answer.
Reinjury means hurting the same place again. Rest lowers that risk, while the other answers have no link to it.
Make it your own
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