Injury vs. Knock — What's the Difference?

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.

To strike with a hard blow

An instance of being injured

To affect in a specified way by striking hard

Damage to a person's feelings

To cause to be displaced or unengaged; force

Damage or harm done to or suffered by a person or thing

To cause to collide

A particular form of hurt, damage, or loss

To produce by hitting or striking

(Law) Violation of the rights of another party for which legal redress is available.

(Informal) To find fault with; criticize

(Obsolete) An insult.

To strike a sharp audible blow or series of blows, as on a door.

Damage to the body of a living thing.

To collide with something

Other forms of damage sustained by a living thing, e.g. psychologically.

To make a pounding or clanking noise

The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.

An instance of striking or colliding.

(archaic) Injustice.

The sound of a sharp blow on a hard surface.

(obsolete) To wrong, to injure.

A pounding or clanking noise made by an engine, often as a result of faulty fuel combustion. Also called ping.

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.

(Slang) A cutting, often petty criticism.

Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.

An accident that results in physical damage or hurt

A sharp impact.

A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

(figuratively) A criticism.

An act that injures someone

(figuratively) A blow or setback.

Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition; also, the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.

(cricket) A batsman's innings.

Synonym of hunger knock

To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.

To criticize verbally; to denigrate; to undervalue.

To kick a ball towards another player; to pass.

To impress forcibly or strongly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.

To bump or impact.

(intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.

To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door.

To practice evil speaking or fault-finding; to criticize habitually or captiously.

To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the table.

To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.

To impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.

To criticise; to find fault with; to disparage.

A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.

A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap.

The sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing);

Negative criticism

A vigorous blow;

A bad experience;

The act of hitting vigorously;

Deliver a sharp blow or push :

Rap with the knuckles;

Knock against with force or violence;

Make light, repeated taps on a surface;

Sound like a car engine that is firing too early;

Find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws;