injure

Verb

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

harm wound hurt mar damage impair bruise cripple break wrong abuse spite strain upset insult
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Antonyms

help benefit preserve minister garland laver
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Hypernyms

kindle fire damage raise provoke evoke

Hyponyms

rick pip turn knife sprain calk

Related terms

injury injurious

Phrases with the word

to injure injure oneself resulting

Derivatives

injured injuring

Examples

While 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

Close letter words and terms

injunctively injurable injurant injure oneself resulting injured injured bed