Injury and Penalty

Injury

Injury noun - Something that causes loss or pain.

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Penalty and injury are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Penalty" instead a noun "Injury".

Penalty noun - A sum of money to be paid as a punishment.

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Injury and penalty are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Injury" instead a noun "Penalty".

normal	normal injury	normal penalty
common	common injury	common penalty
specific	specific injury	specific penalty
single	single injury	single penalty
Other adjectives: heavy, nasty, actual, real, severe, massive, extreme, serious, little, personal, permanent, major, possible, broken, minor, minimal, further, significant, worst, resulting.

Deep into injury time, Arjen Robben was fouled in the penalty area, and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar converted the resulting penalty to put the Dutch through 2-1.

Source: Memes / Sports
The only "penalty" for going down with an injury is to leave the field for at least one play ... an outcome the player faking the injury likely wanted to do in the first place.

Source: Playing Possum
On Mighty Thews: the most an injury will do is provide you with a bit of a penalty later in the story.

Source: Made Of Iron / Tabletop Games

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