Synonyms 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

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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.

   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

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

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1. injure

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

   Antonyms:
   benefit, profit, repair, advance, advantage

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Arouse
   • Damage
   • Hurt

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1. injureverb

   Synonyms:
   maltreat, wrong, abuse, do wrong to, do an ill office to, treat unjustly

2. injureverb

   Synonyms:
   harm, hurt, damage, spoil, impair, mar, disfigure, do harm to, PLAY THE DEUCE WITH

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1. injureverb

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "injure":

   hurt, wound, harm

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How to use injure in a sentence?

1. Seneca:

   Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.

2. 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.

3. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

   There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.

4. Marcus Tullius Cicero:

   Never injure a friend, even in jest.

5. Stuart London:

   He used a takedown technique he was taught in the academy. He said he never exerted any pressure on the windpipe and never intended to injure Mr. Garner.