Injure

Definition: Injure

Injure

Verb

1. Cause injuries or bodily harm to.

2. Hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised me ego".

3. Cause damage or affect negatively; "Our business was hurt by the new competition".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "injure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Injure \In"jure\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Injured; present participle verb or noun Injuring.]. (references)

Synonyms: Injure

Deterioration

Injure, impair, labefy, damage, harm, hurt, shend, scath, scathe, spoil, mar, despoil, dilapidate, waste; overrun; ravage; pillage.

Hindrance

Thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze, feeze; baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat; spike guns; (render useless); spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple; (injure); put an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten; (dissuade); discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like a millstone round one's neck.

Inexpedience

Verb: be hurtful; Adjective: cause evil, produce evil, inflict evil, work evil, do evil; damnify, endamage, hurt, harm; injure; (damage); pain.

Malevolence

Hurt; (physical pain); annoy; injure., harm, wrong; do harm to, do an ill office to; outrage; disoblige, malign, plant a thorn in the breast.

Uncleanness

Render unclean; Adjective: dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease;dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear; bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt; (injure); cover with dust; Noun: drabble in the mud; roil.

Crosswords: Injure

French (abuse, affront, insult, revile).

Books

• Cutting and Self-Mutilation: When Teens Injure Themselves (Teen Issues) (reference)

• Injure et sexualité : le corps du délit (reference)

• L'effet injure : de la pragmatique � la psychanalyse (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

'Tis not a change from the present state, which perhaps corruption or decay has introduced, that makes an inroad upon the government, but the tendency of it to injure or oppress the people, and to set up one part or party, with a distinction from, and an unequal subjection of the rest. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This had filled him with jealousy, and he had done what he could on all occasions to injure Madeleine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Activities that can injure the neck should be avoided. (references)

The amount of alcohol that can injure the liver varies greatly from person to person. (references)

Surgery (for example, prostate surgery) can injure nerves and arteries near the penis, causing impotence. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ghana

The laws provided for 10 years' maximum imprisonment for reporting intended to injure the reputation of the State. (references)

Economic History

Bulgaria

However, the competition law provides for fines of up to 500,000 levs for companies which use misleading packaging, trademarks or other signs which injure the interests of competitors. (references)

Human Rights

Nepal

Although their activities are focused on the police, the Maoists continued to kill and injure civilians. (references)

Trade

Bangladesh

Imported goods (including their containers) must not bear any words or inscriptions of a religious connotation, the use or disposal of which may injure the religious feelings and beliefs of any class of the citizens of Bangladesh. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "injure": injure one's eye ♦ injure oneself. Additional references.

Afrikaans

bederf (bribe, corruption, damage, decay, depravation, go bad, putrefy, rot, spoil, taint), beskadig (damage, spoil), benadeel (harm, hurt, prejudice). (various references)

Albanian

vras (assassinate, bag, bruise, bump off, damage, despatch, dispatch, do away with, drop, finish, finish off, get, hurt, kill, Lynch, make away with oneself, murder, poniard, put the sword, puzzle, shoot, slay, stab, stone to death, waste, zap), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), ofendoj (damnify, grieve, insult, mortify, offend, outrage, revile), lëndoj (harm, Harrow, hurt, sting, wound), fyej (affront, aggrieve, damnify, deal, desecrate, disoblige, displease, grieve, insult, offend, outrage, pique, revile, trespass, vex, vituperate), dëmtoj (affect, batter, blast, blight, break, concuss, cripple, damage, damnify, deface, disorder, do harm, harm, hurt, impair, kill, make mischief, mess, nip, prejudice, scathe, spoil, vitiate, wrench). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نزل به ضررا, ‏ضر (disadvantage, harm, hurt, impair, mar), ‏جرح (break, cut, flesh wound, gash, hurt, incision, injury, lacerate, laceration, lesion, maim, make mischief, maul, pierce, shoot, slash, stab, sting, wing, wound, wounding), ‏إنجرح (be wounded), ‏أهان (abase oneself, affront, debase, degrade, dishonor, dishonour, flout, give offence, give offense, insult, malign, offend, oppress, outrage, revile, slap, slight, take offence, take offense), ‏آذى (annoy, damage, disagree, harm, hurt, impair, lacerate, make mischief, malign, offend, prejudice, prey on, reflect, smear, work mischief). (various references)

Bulgarian 

увреждам (damnify, harm, prejudice, waste), развалям (alloy, bitch, blunder, break up, change, contaminate, corrupt, deprave, disaffirm, louse up, mangle, mess about, mess around, muddle, murder, mutilate, nip, perish, queer, spoil, uglify, undo, vitiate), ощетявам (damage, endamage, harm, prejudice), онеправдавам (wrong), обиждам (abuse, affront, aggrieve, belabor, belabour, dishonor, dishonour, give offense, give umbrage, huff, hurt, insult, inveigh, offend, outrage, slight, spite, vituperate, wrong), наранявам (cut, hurt, traumatize, wound), нанасям щета, нанасям вреда, похабявам (blunt, consume, spoil, waste), повреждам (blemish, damage, derange, disturb, endamage, flaw, hurt, ill use, impair, maim, maul, mutilate, ravage, scathe, spoil, strafe, trouble, vitiate), подбивам (beat down, kid, make fun of, underbid, undercut, undermine). (various references)

Chinese 

劌 (cut), 圮 (destroyed), 惎 (vilify), �"傷 (bruise), 殘 (cruel, destroy, disabled, incomplete, oppressive, ruin, savage, spoil), 損 (to damage, to harm, to lose), 伤害 (hurting, injured, Injuries, Injuring, INJURY), 儡 (puppet), 傷害 (harm), 傷 (injury, wound). (various references)

Czech

zranit (damnify, hurt, wound), urazit (give offence, insult, libel, offend, upset), ublížit (do harm, do smb. injury, harm, hurt), poškodit (aggrieve, corrupt, damage, harm, hurt, impair, prejudice, scar, violate). (various references)

Danish

beskadige (damage, spoil). (various references)

Dutch

havenen (damage, spoil), beschadigen (damage, spoil), bederven (bribe, damage, go bad, putrefy, rot, spoil). (various references)

Esperanto

kaŭzi malutilon al (harm, hurt, prejudice), kaŭzi malprofiton (harm, hurt, prejudice), difekti (damage, spoil). (various references)

Faeroese

spilla (coddle, damage, destroy, pamper, pet, quash, spoil), oyðileggja (damage, spoil). (various references)

Farsi 

اسیب زدن(به). (various references)

Finnish

vioittaa (damage), vikuuttaa (damage, do damage), vaurioittaa (damage), vammoittaa, vammauttaa, vahingoittaa (damage, do damage, harm, hurt, mar), turmella (damage, deprave, destroy, do damage, harm, hurt, mar, ruin, spoil), pilata (damage, mar, ruin, spoil), loukata (hurt, infringe, insult, offend, violate). (various references)

French

porter préjudice, offenser (insult), nuisons, nuisez, nuisent, nuis, nuire, léser, faire du tort, détériorer, blesser, abîmer. (various references)

Frisian

skansearje (damage, spoil). (various references)

German

verletzen (abuse, bless, blessed, blest, breach, break, bruise, damage, harm, hurt, infringe, insult, lacerate, offend, spoil, to bruise, to hurt, to infringe, to injure, touch, transgress, upset, violate, wound), beschädigen (blemish, bruise, chip, damage, deface, knock about, knock around, Mar, Mark, maul, nip, spoil, spoilt, strip, to damage, to injure). (various references)

Greek 

βλάπτω (damage, do damage, do harm, harm, hurt, mar, vitiate), πληγώνω (hurt, scar, scathe, scotch, wound), τραυματίζω (hurt, wound). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפ�'וע (affect, blight, come across, harm, hurt, impinge, offend, prejudice, slight, strike, wound), לפצוע (bruise, hurt, mangle, maul, scotch, slash, wound), לחמס (hurt), לחבל (damage, destroy, make mischief, sabotage, wound), לחבול (damage, harm, wound), ל�"זיק (damage, harm, hurt, impair, prejudice). (various references)

Hungarian

rongál (damage, spoil, to abuse, to batter), megsebesít (hurt, to gore, to hurt, to injure, to prick, to traumatize, to wound, wound), megsért (affront, give offence, give offense, hurt, insult, pique, to affront, to contravene, to entrench upon, to harm, to hurt, to injure, to insult, to miscall, to offend, to outrage, to violate, to wound, to wrong, violate), megrongál (damage, dilapidate, mutilate, spoil, to blemish, to damage, to impair, to injure, to mar, to mutilate, to scathe, to waste), kárt okoz (derogate, do harm, harm, hurt, to hurt, to injure, to scathe). (various references)

Indonesian

mencederakan, mencacati (damage, impair), melukai (chafe, hurt, scathe, wound). (various references)

Italian

danneggiare (damage, harm, hurt, impair, Mar, spoil). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

損う (to damage, to fail in doing, to harm, to hurt, to injure). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

がいする (to damage, to harm, to hinder, to injure, to kill), きずつける (to damage, to hurt someone's feelings, to injure, to wound), そ�"なう (to damage, to fail in doing, to harm, to hurt, to injure), そ�"ねる (to harm, to hurt, to injure), そ�"じる (to damage, to harm, to hurt, to injure), いためる (to afflict, to be grieved over, to bother, to cause pain, to damage, to hurt, to impair, to injure, to spoil, to stir-fry, to worry). (various references)

Korean 

손상되십시�". (various references)

Manx

lhottey (hurt, mutilate, mutilation, wound, wounding), gortey (dearth, destitution, famine, hurt, injury, scarceness, smart, starvation). (various references)

Norwegian

skade (bruise, damage, detriment, harm, hurt, injury), krenke. (various references)

Pig Latin

injureay.(various references)

Portuguese

prejudicar (bane, crack, damage, damnify, disserve, encroach, harm, hinder, hurt, impair, inhibit, jeopard, jeopardize, pocket, prejudice, prevent, queer, scathe, spoil, upset), ofender (abuse, affront, aggrieve, bespatter, bruise, despite, dishonor, dishonour, displease, grieve, harm, huff, hurt, insult, miscall, offend, outrage, shock, stab), fira, ferir (bite, bruise, buffet, clapperclaw, claw, cut, hit, huff, hurt, let by, scathe, shock, touch, wound), fazer mal a (harm), estragar (blunder, botch, bungle, deface, deteriorate, dilapidate, disconcert, foul up, impair, mar, mess, muck, muddle, overset, poison, queer, rub, screw up, spoil), deteriorar (damage, deteriorate, flaw, mar, rot, spoil), danificar (blemish, damage, flaw, harm, sabotage, scathe, shatter, spoil), avariar (spoil), arruinar (blight, break, crack, decay, demolish, depredate, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, fling, mar, mine, puncture, ravage, reave, reive, ruin, spoil, undo, unmake, waste). (various references)

Romanian

vãtãma (blight, damage, hurt, scathe, touch, wound, wrong), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), se rãni, rãni (bring down, cut, gash, hurt, offend, scathe, scotch, stab, sting, wound, wrong), prejudicia (harm, hurt), pãgubi (harm, hurt, spoil), ofensa (abuse, affront, damage, huff, hurt, insult, mortify, offend, spite, touch, vex), lovi (assail, attack, batter, beat, befall, buffet, bump, catch, clap, crack, cuff, cut, dab, drive, drub, fib, flap, hammer, harm, hit, hurt, impact, infect, jar, knock, lash, lay hands on, lunge at, Pat, put, reach, seize, shock, slam, slap, smite, spank, strike, swat, swinge, switch, tap, thrust, thump, touch, whack, whip, wipe, wound, wrong), leza (endanger, wound, wrong), jigni (aggrieve, cut, grate, Harrow, hit, hurt, insult, mortify, offend, pique, touch, vex, wrong), dãuna (harm, wound), avaria (damage, deteriorate, impair, spoil), a-şi face rãu. (various references)

Russian 

ушибить (bump, contuse), причинять боль (ail, hurt, pain, rankle, smart), повреждать (blast, cripple, damage, impair), повредить (hurt), испортить (foul, spoil). (various references)

Scottish

sgath (a wattled door, lop off, prune), s� raich (fatigue, harass, tire, wrong), mill (destroy, mar), dochainn, ciùrr (hurt). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

raniti (scar, traumatize, wing, wound), povrediti (damage, encroach, hurt, impinge, job, sear, violate, wound), ozlediti (hurt, jar, wound), činiti nepravdu. (various references)

Spanish

herir (bruise, cripple, cut up, hit, hurt, lacerate, offend, Pierce, pinch, pique, scorch, scotch, shoot, smite, spite, strike, touch, wound). (various references)

Swedish

såra (aggrieve, flesh, hurt, offend, pique, touch, wound), förorätta. (various references)

Thai

ทำร้าย (eat into, lay a finger on, lay a hand on). (various references)

Turkish

incitmek (aggrieve, cut, cut up, gall, harm, hurt, hurt deeply, mortify, offend, pique, scarify, scathe, scotch, sting, strain, touch, wound), zedelemek (bruise, contuse, outrage), zarar vermek (damage, do a disservice, do harm, encroach, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, infest, prejudice, scathe, scourge, shatter, spite), yaralamak (bruise, chafe, hit, hurt, lacerate, maul, pip, prick, rasp, scotch, wound), sakatlamak (cripple, disable, flaw, hamstring, lame, maim, Mar, mutilate, nobble), kötülük etmek (harm). (various references)

Turkmen 

kesdirmek (wound). (various references)

Ukrainian

ображати (abuse, affront, damnify, dishonor, dishonour, frump, huff, humiliate, insult, offend, outrage, revile, umbrage), зіпсувати (blunder, butcher, ravage), пошкодити (hurt, nip). (various references)

Welsh

niweidio (damage, harm, hurt), drygu (harm, hurt), amharu (damage, harm, impair). (various references)

laed, laedas, laedebantur, laedebit, laedere, laederent, laederet, laedet, laedetur, laedit, laesa, laeseris, laeserit, laeseritis, laesi, laesimus, laesiones, laesisti, laesit, laesum, laesura, laesus, misfacio, noceas, noceat, nocebis, nocebit, nocebunt, nocens, nocentes, nocenti, nocere, noceret, nocet, nocetis, nocui, nocuit, renoceri, vulnero. (various references)

hynan. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "injure": injured, injurer, injurers, injures. (additional references)

Words ending with "injure": reinjure. (additional references)

Words containing "injure": reinjured, reinjures, uninjured. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Injure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incure, indure, iniuria, injur, injurier, innure, inpure, inqure, Njiru, njure, onjune, Xianju. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: inure, urine.

-2 letters: rein, ruin, rune.

-3 letters: ern, ire, jeu, jin, jun, rei, rin, rue, run, urn.

-4 letters: en, er, in, ne, nu, re, un.

+1 letter: injured, injurer, injures, juniper, junkier.

+2 letters: injurers, injuries, jauntier, jointure, jouncier, junglier, junipers, reinjure, reinjury.

+3 letters: jointured, jointures, juddering, juniorate, perjuring, reinjured, reinjures, rejudging, uninjured.

+4 letters: journalize, journeying, juniorates, prejudging, reinjuries, reinjuring, rejuggling, surjection.

+5 letters: disjuncture, forejudging, journalized, journalizer, journalizes, prejudicing, readjusting, surjections.