injure
UK /ˈɪn.dʒə/ · US /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ verb
Forms injures injuring injured
- verb (transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature. “The rugby team's star player got injured in a violent collision.”
- verb (transitive) To damage or impair.
- verb (transitive) To do injustice to.
Synonyms
harm wound traumatize abuse annoy bewound damage damnify dere do damage to do for do ill do violence to forwork grieve harrow hurt maul mayhem misdo bruise offend spite
Antonyms
Etymology
A back-formation from injury, from Middle English injurie, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + iūs, iūris (“right, law”).
Webster’s 1913
- verb To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; --used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. (b) To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. (c) To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character. (d) To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue. (e) To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy. (f) To impair, as the intellect or mind.
Etymology [L. injuriari, fr. injuria injury, perh. through F. injurier to insult, in OF. also, to injure; or perhaps fr. E. injury, or F. injure injury. See Injury.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “injure”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details