injure
Meaning of injure
verb
- do physical harm or damage to (someone).
the explosion injured several people
- harm or impair (something).
a libel calculated to injure the company's reputation
late Middle English: back-formation from injury.
Information about injure
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of injure is: injures.
- Languages in which injure is used:
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Hyphenation of injure
in-jure
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- injure is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
injure synonyms
Meaning wound:
Meaning hurt:
hurt, wound, bruise, offend, spite
Meaning physically injure:
Meaning inflict physical harm on (something) so as to impair its value, usefulness, or normal function:
Meaning (of a disease, injury, or accident) limit (someone) in their movements, senses, or activities:
Meaning wound or injure (a person or animal) so that part of the body is permanently damaged:
Meaning inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on:
Meaning distort the shape or form of; make misshapen:
Meaning destroy or severely damage by tearing or crushing:
Meaning compress or squeeze forcefully so as to break, damage, or distort in shape:
Meaning break or cause to break suddenly and violently into pieces:
Meaning violently break (something) into pieces:
Meaning separate or cause to separate into pieces as a result of a blow, shock, or strain:
Meaning tire (someone) out:
Meaning harm; injure:
Meaning weaken or damage (something, especially a faculty or function):
Meaning lessen the effectiveness, power, or ability of, especially gradually or insidiously:
Meaning make or become less:
Meaning delay or prevent (someone or something) by obstructing them; hinder:
Meaning make or become weaker in power, resolve, or physical strength:
Meaning make weak or feeble:
Meaning spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of:
Meaning impair the quality or appearance of; spoil:
Meaning diminish or destroy the value or quality of:
Meaning cause great and usually irreparable damage or harm to; have a disastrous effect on:
Meaning have a severely detrimental effect on:
Meaning spoil the appearance or quality of (something):
Meaning damage (someone's reputation):
Meaning make or become less valuable or respected:
Meaning damage or destroy (someone's reputation) by speaking badly of them:
injure antonyms
Meaning cause (a wound, injury, or person) to become sound or healthy again:
Translation of injure
Words that rhyme with injure
jure, abjure, objure, adjure, conjure, disconjure, preinjure, reinjure, upconjure, perjure, Yurujure
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