HyperDic: injure

English > 3 senses of the word injure:
VERBbodyinjure, woundcause injuries or bodily harm to
emotioninjure, hurt, wound, bruise, offend, spitehurt the feelings of
changeinjure, hurtcause damage / damage or affect negatively
injure > pronunciation
Soundsih'njher
RhymesAlger ... wager: 53 rhymes with jher...
English > injure: 3 senses > verb 1, body
MeaningCause injuries or bodily harm to.
PatternSomebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something
Synonymwound
Entailed bymaul, mangleinjure badly by beating
spurstrike with a spur
Narrowerbruise, contuseinjure the underlying soft tissue or bone of
calkinjure with a calk
concussinjure the brain
disable, invalid, incapacitate, handicapinjure permanently
fracture, breakfracture a bone of
grazebreak the skin (of a body part) by scraping
harmCause or do harm to
knife, stabUse a knife on
maiminjure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation
pull, overstretchstrain / strain abnormally
run down, run overinjure or kill / kill by running over, as with a vehicle
shoot, hit, piphit with a missile from a weapon
skin, scrapebruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
subluxatesprain or dislocate slightly
torture, excruciate, tormentsubject to torture
trampleinjure by trampling or as if by trampling
traumatize, traumatise, shockinflict a trauma upon
twist, sprain, wrench, turn, wrick, rickTwist suddenly so as to sprain
BroaderhurtGive trouble or pain to
Spanishherir, lastimar, lesionar
Catalanferir-se, ferir, fer-se mal, lesionar
Nounsinjuryan act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage
injuryan accident that results in physical damage or hurt
injuryany physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
English > injure: 3 senses > verb 2, emotion
Meaninghurt the feelings of.
PatternSomebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody
ModelSam cannot injure Sue
Synonymshurt, wound, bruise, offend, spite
Narrowerdiss, insult, affronttreat, mention, or speak to rudely
humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abaseCause to feel shame
lacerateDeeply hurt the feelings of
stingCause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
Broaderarouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provokeCall forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
Spanishdañar, herir, insultar, lastimar, lesionar, ofender
Catalandanyar, ferir, fer mal, insultar, lesionar, nafrar, ofendre
English > injure: 3 senses > verb 3, change
MeaningCause damage / damage or affect negatively.
PatternSomebody ----s something; Something ----s something
Synonymhurt
Broaderdamageinflict damage / damage upon
Spanishlesionar, perjudicar
Catalanlesionar, perjudicar

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