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to injure

to injure

10 1.6
Cause harm to people or things, for example to a company's good name
  • verb
  • /ˈɪnʤər/
: perjudicar
  • Not long after, I injured my knee badly during a game.
  • injured party
  • injure or destroy
  • injure competition

Because they injure or destroy our frail flesh.

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Examples

  • People that go through hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and the like, these are events that can injure or destroy people's lives.

  • And seriously injure numerous other people in the attacks where these 11 people died.

    Unquiet Graves (2018)

  • And the fire that injured you took everything with it.

    Bad Dreams (1988)

  • Almost all expected to be injured at work within a year.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Many are being treated for life threatening conditions and we know that among those killed and injured were many children and young people.

    10 Downing Street

  • Every thoughtless action by the single human character comes back around to injure him in some way.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Such shifts in production, and hence emissions, injure the nation's economy yet provide no global environmental benefit.

    Academic text (1997)

  • More than 20% of boys and 13% of girls reported unintentionally injuring another person in the past year.

    Academic text (2011)

  • He fell off his bike and injured his leg when he hit the pavement.

  • The accident injured several people, causing them to seek medical attention.

Synonyms

to hurt
vsto injure
∞ 1.0

Make someone suffer physical or emotional pain

focuses on causing damage or loss rather than only pain
to harm
vsto injure
500 1.0

To cause a bad effect on people or things

is broader and also covers causing loss as well as damage
to bruise
vsto injure
103 2.6

To hit or bump part of your body so it becomes dark and painful

is broader covering damage types that may break skin or destroy tissue
to attack
vsto injure
62 4.9

To start damaging something, for example by disease or chemicals

is the general act of causing damage not limited to specific causes
to wound
vsto injure
12 2.3

To cut or hurt someone's body physically

covers many kinds of damage beyond cuts to skin

Antonyms

to protect
∞ 1.0

To keep someone or something safe from harm

to heal
726 1.2

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

How Harmful

to destroy
∞ 1.0
to maim
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48 7.0
to wound
12 2.3
to injure
10 1.6
to damage
323 1.4
to harm
500 1.0

Surface Forms

injure infinitive
injured past
injured past participle
injuring present participle
injures third person singular

Etymology

Injure comes from the Latin root jur- (the same root you see in justice and jury), with in- meaning 'not', so it meant to take away someone's right or do them wrong. So to injure something or someone is to cause harm, damage, or loss, like hurting a company's reputation.