Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause physical harm to; hurt.
- transitive verb To experience injury in (oneself or a body part).
- transitive verb To cause damage to; impair.
- transitive verb To commit an injustice or offense against; wrong.
- transitive verb To cause distress to; wound.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
injury . - To do harm to; inflict damage or detriment upon; impair or deteriorate in any way; subject to any deleterious or noxious action or influence; hurt; harm: a word of very wide application: as, to
injure property by misuse or neglect; to injure the health by overwork or dissipation; to injure another's reputation by slander; to injure the cause of morality by bad example. - Synonyms To mar, disfigure, abuse, maltreat, wrong.
- In law; in jurisprudence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health.
- transitive verb To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate.
- transitive verb To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character.
- transitive verb To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue.
- transitive verb To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy.
- transitive verb To impair, as the intellect or mind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To wound or cause
physical harm to a livingcreature . - verb transitive To damage or impair.
- verb transitive To do
injustice to.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb hurt the feelings of
- verb cause damage or affect negatively
- verb cause injuries or bodily harm to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Anyone out to injure is probably going to know enough to make those things all stabby anyway.
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That may actually in the long term injure more people then the Toyota that speed ahead.
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And high levels of cortisol over the long term injure the hippocampus, leading to impaired memory,5 dementia, and depression.6 Sonia Lupien from McGill University has also shown how stress shrinks the memory center and has damaging effects on our brain function and cognition.7;8
The UltraMind Solution M.D. Mark Hyman 2009
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Washington specifically used the term "injure" -- no mention of severe mental or physical pain.
Matthew Alexander: Former Senior Interrogator in Iraq Dissects Cheney's Lies and Distortions 2009
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If I were Rustum Ghazalah, I would remove all sharp metal objects and weapons from my vicinity, lest I get the temptation to "injure" myself really badly.
Monday, October 31, 2005 As'ad 2005
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This they do in order not to draw down on themselves the hatred of the spirits who live in the trees, and who are apt to avenge themselves by visiting with grievous sickness such as injure them wantonly.
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This they do in order not to draw down on themselves the hatred of the spirits who live in the trees, and who are apt to avenge themselves by visiting with grievous sickness such as injure them wantonly.
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Against night goblins when the night comes on, and from witches who bind by their magic knots, and from such as injure by the evil eye; I seek refuge with the Lord from charmers, from jinns [demons], and from evil men.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Various 1909
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This they do in order not to draw down on themselves the hatred of the spirits who live in the trees, and who are apt to avenge themselves by visiting with grievous sickness such as injure them wantonly.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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Those Obama supporters are probably really lazy anyway, or looking to "injure" themselves on the job so that they can suck off the workers 'comp claim and eventually file for disability.
Center for American Progress Action Fund Amanda Terkel 2010
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