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Synonyms for injure
ˈɪn dʒərin·jure
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
injure
Abuse covers all unreasonable or improper use or treatment by word or act. A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect. It is possible to abuse a man without harming him, as when the criminal vituperates the judge; or to harm a man without abusing him, as when the witness tells the truth about the criminal. Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense. One may be justly reproached. To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence. To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives. "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy," Deut. xxiv, 14. Misemploy, misuse, and pervert are commonly applied to objects rather than to persons. A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms his associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, abuses every good gift of God.
Synonyms:
abuse, aggrieve, damage, defame, defile, disparage, harm, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, reproach, revile, ruin, slander, victimize, vilify, violate, vituperate, wrongAntonyms:
applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate
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Princeton's WordNet
injure, woundverb
cause injuries or bodily harm to
hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spiteverb
hurt the feelings of
"She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"
Synonyms:
hurt, suffer, smart, violate, shock, appall, wound, transgress, scandalise, pique, contuse, appal, scandalize, outrage, bruise, go against, breach, pain, offend, infract, spite, anguish, ache, breakhurt, injureverb
cause damage or affect negatively
"Our business was hurt by the new competition"
Synonyms:
smart, hurt, wound, bruise, offend, ache, suffer, anguish, spite, pain
Dictionary of English Synonymes
injureverb
Synonyms:
maltreat, wrong, abuse, do wrong to, do an ill office to, treat unjustlyinjureverb
Synonyms:
harm, hurt, damage, spoil, impair, mar, disfigure, do harm to, PLAY THE DEUCE WITH
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
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#772 | mar | |
#1618 | break | |
#1673 | wrong | |
#1938 | pain | |
#2207 | smart | |
#2225 | abuse | |
#2266 | damage | |
#4602 | shock | |
#5093 | hurt | |
#6159 | harm | |
#6848 | suffer | |
#9001 | breach | |
#9117 | wound | |
#10782 | spite | |
#12746 | violate | |
#14038 | misuse | |
#14164 | ruin | |
#20114 | outrage | |
#21436 | spoil | |
#23039 | offend | |
#25311 | ache | |
#25560 | impair | |
#26033 | cripple | |
#27991 | anguish | |
#28024 | prostitute | |
#33274 | slander | |
#33441 | pique | |
#34306 | injure | |
#34734 | pervert | |
#41477 | sully | |
#42903 | reproach | |
#45961 | bruise | |
#65039 | persecute | |
#66795 | oppress | |
#72172 | malign | |
#73765 | defame | |
#78097 | defile | |
#84156 | disparage | |
#85386 | molest | |
#98708 | transgress | |
#141077 | vilify | |
#148587 | revile | |
#151654 | ravish | |
#164852 | victimize | |
#216390 | appal | |
#290491 | appall | |
#317019 | maltreat |
How to use injure in a sentence?
The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
The guidelines really don't help -- in fact, they hurt, they injure, they keep people who could benefit from genetic testing from getting it.
We see you, value you and accept you. My role ; however, is also to stand up here, having asked our world governing body, FINA, to investigate, deliberate and uphold the cornerstone of fairness in elite women’s competition, and it pains me that this part of my role, may injure, infuriate and potentially alienate people from an already-marginalized trans community.
Dozens of toddlers injure themselves, even kill people with guns, because, not everyone who has loaded guns in their homes takes appropriate precautions.
You attack a police officer, you harm, injure and kill a law enforcement officer, you should be held accountable to the highest level permissible by law.
Translations for injure
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- جرحArabic
- ferirCatalan, Valencian
- zranitCzech
- verletzenGerman
- herirSpanish
- loukata, epäoikeudenmukainen, haavoittaa, vahingoittaaFinnish
- blesserFrench
- déan díobháil, díobháilIrish
- ferirGalician
- slasaIcelandic
- ferireItalian
- birîndar kirinKurdish
- nocereLatin
- tunuhuruhuruMāori
- skade, såreNorwegian
- ranićPolish
- ferir, machucarPortuguese
- повредить, ранитьRussian
- fèrrereSardinian
- skadaSwedish
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