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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhile the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years. Abraham Lincoln
Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace. Morihei Ueshiba
Soft speeches injure not the mouth of the speaker. Latin Proverb
It is a wretched thing to injure a poor man. Egyptian Proverb
Just scales and full measure injure no man. Chinese Proverb