injure
Meanings
Verb
- cause injuries or bodily harm to
- hurt the feelings of
- cause damage or affect negatively
- To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
- To damage or impair.
- To do injustice to.
Origin / Etymology
A back-formation from injury, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + iūs, iūris (“right, law”).
Synonyms
abuse, annoy, befoul, besmirch, bewound, blemish, blight, bruise, contaminate, contort, damage, damnify, deface, defame, defile, deform, demolish, dere, destroy, destruct, devastate, dilapidate, disfigure, disgrace, distort, do damage to, do for, do ill, do violence to, forwork, grieve, harm, harrow, hurt, impair, injure, maim, mangle, mar, maul, misdo, mutilate, obliterate, offend, pollute, put someone in hospital, ruin, scaith, scath, scathe, scratch, shend, soil, spite, spoil, stain, sully, taint, tarnish, trash, uglify, undermine, vandalize, vulnerate, wet, worsen, wound, wreck
Scrabble Score: 13
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