What are some opposite words for injure?

Antonyms for injure
ˈɪn dʒərin·jure

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  1. injureverb

    Antonyms:
    praise, preserve, help, benefit

  2. injureverb

    Antonyms:
    help, praise, benefit, preserve

  3. injureverb

    Antonyms:
    preserve, praise, benefit, help

  4. injureverb

    Antonyms:
    preserve, help, benefit, praise

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. injure

    Abuse covers all unreasonable or improper use or treatment by word or act. A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect. It is possible to abuse a man without harming him, as when the criminal vituperates the judge; or to harm a man without abusing him, as when the witness tells the truth about the criminal. Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense. One may be justly reproached. To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence. To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives. "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy," Deut. xxiv, 14. Misemploy, misuse, and pervert are commonly applied to objects rather than to persons. A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms his associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, abuses every good gift of God.

    Antonyms:
    applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate

    Synonyms:
    abuse, aggrieve, damage, defame, defile, disparage, harm, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, reproach, revile, ruin, slander, victimize, vilify, violate, vituperate, wrong

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. injure

    Antonyms:
    benefit, profit, repair, advance, advantage

    Synonyms:
    damage, wound, hurt, wrong, impair, maltreat, cripple, mar, spoil, sully, harm

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. injure, woundverb

    cause injuries or bodily harm to

    Synonyms:
    spite, wound, bruise, hurt, offend

  2. hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spiteverb

    hurt the feelings of

    "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"

    Synonyms:
    hurt, suffer, smart, violate, shock, appall, wound, transgress, scandalise, pique, contuse, appal, scandalize, outrage, bruise, go against, breach, pain, offend, infract, spite, anguish, ache, break

  3. hurt, injureverb

    cause damage or affect negatively

    "Our business was hurt by the new competition"

    Synonyms:
    smart, hurt, wound, bruise, offend, ache, suffer, anguish, spite, pain

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  1. injureverb

    Synonyms:
    damage, harm, hurt, impair, disfigure, maim, mar, wound

How to use injure in a sentence?

  1. Isaac Asimov:

    One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

  2. Arabic Proverb:

    Words of blame from those who are hostile to a great man cannot injure him. The moon is not hurt when barked at by a dog.

  3. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu:

    The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

  4. Phil Derner of NYCaviation.com:

    Going into an engine can destroy an engine, going into the cockpit window can injure a pilot or even kill a pilot.

  5. The Guardian:

    And it pains me that this part of my role, may injure, infuriate and potentially alienate people from an already-marginalized trans community.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#76help
#1528consider
#1666repair
#1701respect
#1727benefit
#1837advance
#2157protect
#2314profit
#2419advantage
#3876regard
#4855tend
#5455favor
#6486shield
#6750preserve
#6760praise
#11256sustain
#19974conserve
#22440uphold
#25495cherish
#27690applaud
#34306injure
#70221laud
#79099extol
#80199vindicate
#323815eulogize

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