to injure

Examples

• All

• She feels responsible for injuring her aunt, who she loves!

  The Five-Year Engagement (2012)

• At West Virginia University, subtle, even unintentional remarks and actions deeply injure and anger our minority citizens.

  Academic text (1998)

• Let's call it compensation for my injured feelings.

  Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

• The teasing that stirs people up only rarely has any serious meaning: injured vanity, insults.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Her comments during the meeting really injured my feelings, and I left feeling upset.

• He didn't mean to injure her pride, but his remarks came off as insensitive.

• When she rejected his invitation, he felt that it injured his self-esteem deeply.

Synonyms

H

to hurt

vsto injure

∞ 1.0

Make someone suffer physical or emotional pain

is limited to emotional damage rather than physical injury

H

to harm

vsto injure

500 1.0

To cause a bad effect on people or things

applies only to feelings, not to bodily injury

D

to damage

vsto injure

323 1.4

To harm something so it becomes less useful, valuable, or healthy

focuses specifically on harming feelings rather than damaging objects or things

O

to offend

vsto injure

283 2.8

Cause a person to feel hurt, upset and angry because of your words or actions

is more focused on causing emotional wound rather than mild upset

P

to pain

vsto injure

41 4.9

To make someone feel sad or upset

is the act of hurting feelings more deliberately than general sadness

B

to bruise

vsto injure

• Informal

28 4.2

To hurt someone's feelings or pride

is the wider idea of causing emotional damage, not only pride

W

to wound

vsto injure

10 5.7

To hurt a person's feelings deeply

is the general act of causing emotional hurt, not always lasting

H

to hurt pride

vsto injure

4 5.5

To make someone feel embarrassed and less confident

is general emotional harm not restricted to pride or esteem

C

to cut to the quick

vsto injure

• Literature

3 7.9

To hurt someone's feelings very deeply

is similar but covers emotional harm more generally and not only sudden depth

L

to lacerate

vsto injure

2 7.6

To deeply hurt someone's feelings

is broader, meaning emotional damage without stressing extreme intensity

A

to aggrieve

vsto injure

• Literature

1 8.9

To cause someone pain or deep sadness

is everyday emotional wounding rather than formal grievance or oppression

Antonyms

H

to heal

726 1.2

To become healthy again after an injury, illness, or emotional pain

C

to comfort

172 1.0

To make someone feel less upset or in pain

How Hurtful

to devastate

256 4.9

to wound

10 5.7

to injure

2 2.5

to hurt

∞ 1.0

to offend

283 2.8

to upset

273 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology