Injure

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cause physical harm to; hurt.
  • v. To cause damage to; impair.
  • v. To cause distress to; wound: injured their feelings.
  • v. To commit an injustice or offense against; wrong.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
  • v. To damage or impair.
  • v. To do injustice to.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health.
  • v. To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate.
  • v. To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character.
  • v. To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue.
  • v. To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy.
  • v. To impair, as the intellect or mind.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A Middle English form of injury.
  • To do harm to; inflict damage or detriment upon; impair or deteriorate in any way; subject to any deleterious or noxious action or influence; hurt; harm: a word of very wide application: as, to injure property by misuse or neglect; to injure the health by overwork or dissipation; to injure another's reputation by slander; to injure the cause of morality by bad example.
  • Synonyms To mar, disfigure, abuse, maltreat, wrong.
  • In law; in jurisprudence.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. hurt the feelings of
  • v. cause damage or affect negatively
  • v. cause injuries or bodily harm to
  • Antonym
    help    benefit    praise    preserve   
    Verb Form
    injured    injures    injuring   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    damage   
    Cross Reference
    harm    illtreat    damage    confession in jure   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abuse    sully    harm    spoil    damage    affront    maltreat    wrong    mar    insult   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ginger    fringer    ginger    hinger   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts