injure
Verb
Verb Forms: injured, injuring, injures
- To cause harm or damage to someone or something.
- 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.
Examples
- Careless word placement could injure your score by blocking future opportunities.
- I injured my ankle playing tennis.
- The rugby team's star player got injured in a violent collision.
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
bruise, hurt, offend, spite, wound, abuse, annoy, befoul, besmirch, bewound, blemish, blight, 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, impair, injure, maim, mangle, mar, maul, misdo, mutilate, obliterate, pollute, put someone in hospital, ruin, scaith, scath, scathe, scratch, shend, soil, spoil, stain, sully, taint, tarnish, trash, uglify, undermine, vandalize, vulnerate, wet, worsen, wreck
Scrabble Score: 13
injure: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordinjure: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
injure: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary