English > injure: 3 senses > verb 1, body| Meaning | Cause injuries or bodily harm to. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
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| Synonym | wound |
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| Entailed by | maul, mangle | injure badly by beating |
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| spur | strike with a spur |
| Narrower | bruise, contuse | injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of |
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| calk | injure with a calk |
| concuss | injure the brain |
| disable, invalid, incapacitate, handicap | injure permanently |
| fracture, break | fracture a bone of |
| graze | break the skin (of a body part) by scraping |
| harm | Cause or do harm to |
| knife, stab | Use a knife on |
| maim | injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation |
| pull, overstretch | strain / strain abnormally |
| run down, run over | injure or kill / kill by running over, as with a vehicle |
| shoot, hit, pip | hit with a missile from a weapon |
| skin, scrape | bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of |
| subluxate | sprain or dislocate slightly |
| torture, excruciate, torment | subject to torture |
| trample | injure by trampling or as if by trampling |
| traumatize, traumatise, shock | inflict a trauma upon |
| twist, sprain, wrench, turn, wrick, rick | Twist suddenly so as to sprain |
| Broader | hurt | Give trouble or pain to |
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| Spanish | herir, lastimar, lesionar |
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| Catalan | ferir-se, ferir, fer-se mal, lesionar |
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| Nouns | injury | an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage |
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| 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. |
English > injure: 3 senses > verb 2, emotion| Meaning | hurt the feelings of. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
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| Model | Sam cannot injure Sue |
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| Synonyms | hurt, wound, bruise, offend, spite |
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| Narrower | diss, insult, affront | treat, mention, or speak to rudely |
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| humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase | Cause to feel shame |
| lacerate | Deeply hurt the feelings of |
| sting | Cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging |
| Broader | arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke | Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) |
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| Spanish | dañar, herir, insultar, lastimar, lesionar, ofender |
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| Catalan | danyar, ferir, fer mal, insultar, lesionar, nafrar, ofendre |
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