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Injurious vs Kerokan - What's the difference?

injurious | kerokan |

As an adjective injurious

is causing physical harm or injury; harmful.

As a noun kerokan is

a sometimes injurious traditional indonesian folk cure wherein a coin or ladle is drawn across the back in order to draw wind or bad spirits from the body.

injurious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing physical harm or injury; harmful.
  • Causing harm to one's reputation; slanderous, libelous, invidious.

    • Synonyms

    * harmful; see also * slanderous, libelous, defamatory * See also

    Derived terms

    * injuriously * injuriousness

    kerokan

    English

    (wikipedia kerokan)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A sometimes injurious traditional Indonesian folk cure wherein a coin or ladle is drawn across the back in order to draw wind or bad spirits from the body.
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    • , passage=Whatever injuries the women may have suffered, the lawyers said, were self-inflicted in the practice of a traditional Indonesian folk cure known as kerokan . }}