INJURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does injure mean? 

• INJURE (verb)
  The verb INJURE has 3 senses:

1. cause injuries or bodily harm to

2. hurt the feelings of

3. cause damage or affect negatively

  Familiarity information: INJURE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INJURE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they injure    ... he / she / it injures   
Past simple: injured   
Past participle: injured   
-ing form: injuring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause injuries or bodily harm to

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

injure; wound

Hypernyms (to "injure" is one way to...):

hurt (give trouble or pain to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "injure"):

concuss (injure the brain; sustain a concussion)

graze (break the skin (of a body part) by scraping)

bruise; contuse (injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of)

scrape; skin (bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of)

knife; stab (use a knife on)

hit; pip; shoot (hit with a missile from a weapon)

break; fracture (fracture a bone of)

run down; run over (injure or kill by knocking (someone or something) down and passing over the body, as with a vehicle)

harm (cause or do harm to)

disable; handicap; incapacitate; invalid (injure permanently)

subluxate (sprain or dislocate slightly)

rick; sprain; turn; twist; wrench; wrick (twist suddenly so as to sprain)

maim (injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation)

shock; traumatise; traumatize (inflict a trauma upon)

overstretch; pull (strain abnormally)

excruciate; torment; torture (subject to torture)

calk (injure with a calk)

trample (injure by trampling or as if by trampling)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

injury (an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage)

injury (an accident that results in physical damage or hurt)

injury (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hurt the feelings of

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

bruise; hurt; injure; offend; spite; wound

Context example:

This remark really bruised my ego

Hypernyms (to "injure" is one way to...):

arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "injure"):

affront; diss; insult (treat, mention, or speak to rudely)

lacerate (deeply hurt the feelings of; distress)

sting (cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging)

abase; chagrin; humble; humiliate; mortify (cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot injure Sue

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cause damage or affect negatively

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

hurt; injure

Context example:

Our business was hurt by the new competition

Hypernyms (to "injure" is one way to...):

damage (inflict damage upon)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

When the retina is injured, however, microglia have an additional role: They migrate quickly to the injury site to remove unhealthy or dying cells.

(Immune cells in the retina can spontaneously regenerate, National Institutes of Health)

Several people have been injured through doing that.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not that St. John harboured a spirit of unchristian vindictiveness—not that he would have injured a hair of my head, if it had been fully in his power to do so.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Results in mouse brains showed that during stroke, the skull is more likely to supply neutrophils to the injured tissue than the tibia.

(Researchers unearth secret tunnels between the skull and the brain, National Institutes of Health)

When a zebrafish injures its eye, cells within the eye naturally regenerate, allowing the fish to maintain vision.

(Researchers unlock regenerative potential of cells in the mouse retina, National Institutes of Health)

"I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy, with an injured sniff.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Krag said it still not yet known where the space station will hit Earth, but said it would be extremely unlikely for anyone to be injured when it does.

(Scientists Track Chinese Space Station as It Falls to Earth, VOA)

You must allow for an injured, angry woman.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Then you want me not to let some previous conviction injure the receptivity of my mind with regard to some strange matter.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

On Wednesday, the strong tremor left five dead and, by early reports, at least 30 injured.

(Aftershocks increase death toll of magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Philippines, Wikinews)