injure
Other forms: injured; injuring; injures
Injure means to hurt, physically or mentally. Lose a bet and you might injure or bruise your pride, but lose your footing and you could injure your body instead.
When a player in a sport is injured, they leave the field to be examined by a trainer or a physician, to see how severe their injury really is. If you slip and fall on the ice, your mom might say, "Are you injured?" She doesn't mean a bruise–––she's talking about a broken bone or a sprained ankle. You can also injure or wound someone else. Insult your mother's cooking or tackle your little brother too roughly to the ground and you'll injure them, either emotionally or physically.
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cause injuries or bodily harm tosynonyms: woundtypes:trampleinjure by trampling or as if by tramplingconcussinjure the brain; sustain a concussioncalkinjure with a calkmaiminjure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilationsubluxatesprain or dislocate slightlyharmcause or do harm tograzebreak the skin (of a body part) by scrapingmacespray with a liquid that irritates the eyes and temporarily disables a personracktorture on the racksickenmake sick or illhockdisable by cutting the hockgun downstrike down or shoot downgrassshoot down, of birdskneecapshoot in the kneecap, often done by terrorist groups as a warningponiardstab with a poniardbayonetstab or kill someone with a bayonettype of:hurtgive trouble or pain to
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cause damage or affect negatively
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hurt the feelings of
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Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 6, Unit 3, Lesson 1.
The Latin roots jur and jus refer to "law," "justice," and "taking an oath." Do you swear to practice these words to improve your law-related vocabulary?