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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

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.

    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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. injure

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

    Antonyms:
    benefit, profit, repair, advance, advantage

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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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. injureverb

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "injure":

    hurt, wound, harm

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How to use injure in a sentence?

  1. Roger Federer:

    It was much better for me to look forward to the rest of the season, rest of my life, really, i didn't want to have setback after setback and injure Roger Federer maybe further. In hindsight, that was definitely the right decision.

  2. 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.

  3. Aaron McGruder:

    When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

  4. Amy Schumer:

    I’m not sure why this man chose my movie to end these two beautiful lives and injure nine others, but it was very personal for me.

  5. 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.


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