to injure
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1.0
- verb
- /ˈɪnʤər/
- Several Japanese sailors were injured in the attack, which provides the Japanese government further grounds for quick extradition.
- seriously injured
- fatally injured
- killed or injured
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Watch on YouTubeHe says, Jason, when you got injured, who got you the Band-Aid?
- He says, Jason, when you got injured, who got you the Band-Aid?
- It wasn't whether we one of us gets injured or God forbid, killed.
- And throughout the project, if you get injured, you can roll to another class.
- So you stop work, you get injured in the fight, you can't do a job.
- He was badly injured, two very big, powerful men.
- Two were injured, and the gunman was killed.
- So not really a great prediction unless I get injured this time.
- And that was when Joyce fell down and injured her hip.
- Like you can injure yourself while just sitting still somehow?
- First, the court said he is not injured.
Examples
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Research staff at each hospital identified injured cyclists and provided contact information to study coordinators.
Academic text (2012) -
Look, are any of you men injured?
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Hey, my father was injured in the war.
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Like you can injure yourself while just sitting still somehow?
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So I think it's been a month almost since I injured my hand, right.
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I got injured at my old job.
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The sick, the displaced, the injured all need our help...
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Two were injured, and the gunman was killed.
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However, if not balanced properly, the stress of the weight could injure your back or damage your muscles.
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He accidentally injured his leg while playing soccer.
Synonyms
451
4.1
To attack someone by hitting them again and again to hurt them
103
2.6
To hit or bump part of your body so it becomes dark and painful
67
4.1
Cause serious harm to people or things with a sharp object
62
4.9
To start damaging something, for example by disease or chemicals
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7.5
Hit something hard so it breaks or opens
14
3.0
To scrape and damage the outer surface of the body by rubbing or falling
12
2.3
To cut or hurt someone's body physically
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9.5
To hurt soft parts under the skin or a bone without opening the skin, causing a bruise
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Injure comes from Latin parts in- ('not') and jur- ('right' or 'law'), originally meaning to do someone a wrong. So to injure a person physically—cutting, breaking, or hurting their body—is one way of doing that wrong.