injure
Meaning
- To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
- To damage or impair.
- To do injustice to.
Synonyms
cause pain
cause damage
stick on
be in a bad way
be injured
do violence to
make crooked
tear open
make sad
treat cruelly
cause to suffer
be grieved over
fail in doing
be downhearted
be noxious
be terrible
be worse
commit an offense
be injurious
do damage
do harm
encroach upon
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ/
Etymology
A back-formation from injury, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + iūs, iūris (“right, law”).
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