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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IN'JURE, v.t. [L. injuria, injury.]
1. To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health.
2. To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate.
3. To slander, tarnish or impair, as reputation or character.
4. To impair or diminish; to annoy; as happiness.
5. To give pain to; to grieve; as sensibility or feelings.
7. To hurt or weaken; as, to injure a good cause.
8. To impair; to violate; as, to injure rights.
9. To make worse; as, great rains injure the roads.
10. In general, to wrong the person, to damage the property, or to lessen the happiness of ourselves or others. A man injures his person by wounds, his estate by negligence or extravagance, and his happiness by vices. He injures his neighbor by violence to his person, by fraud, by calumny, and by non-fulfillment of his contracts.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: cause injuries or bodily harm to [syn: injure, wound]
2: hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego" [syn: hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite]
3: cause damage or affect negatively; "Our business was hurt by the new competition" [syn: hurt, injure]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (injured; injuring) Etymology: Middle English enjuren, from Anglo-French *enjurer, from Late Latin injuriare, from Latin injuria injury Date: 15th century 1. a. to do an injustice to ; wrong b. to harm, impair, or tarnish the standing of <injured his reputation> c. to give pain to <injure a person's pride> 2. a. to inflict bodily hurt on b. to impair the soundness of <injured her health> c. to inflict material damage or loss on • injurer noun Synonyms: injure, harm, hurt, damage, impair, mar mean to affect injuriously. injure implies the inflicting of anything detrimental to one's looks, comfort, health, or success <badly injured in an accident>. harm often stresses the inflicting of pain, suffering, or loss <careful not to harm the animals>. hurt implies inflicting a wound to the body or to the feelings <hurt by their callous remarks>. damage suggests injury that lowers value or impairs usefulness <a table damaged in shipping>. impair suggests a making less complete or efficient by deterioration or diminution <years of smoking had impaired his health>. mar applies to injury that spoils perfection (as of a surface) or causes disfigurement <the text is marred by many typos>.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 do physical harm or damage to; hurt (was injured in a road accident). 2 harm or impair (illness might injure her chances). 3 do wrong to. Derivatives: injurer n. Etymology: back-form. f. INJURY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Injure In"jure, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Injured; p. pr. & vb. n. Injuring.] [L. injuriari, fr. injuria injury, perh. through F. injurier to insult, in OF. also, to injure; or perhaps fr. E. injury, or F. injure injury. See Injury.] To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. (b) To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. (c) To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character. (d) To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue. (e) To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy. (f) To impair, as the intellect or mind. When have I injured thee? when done thee wrong? --Shak. Syn: To damage; mar; spoil; harm; sully; wrong; maltreat; abuse; insult; affront; dishonor.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(injures, injuring, injured) If you injure a person or animal, you damage some part of their body. A number of bombs have exploded, seriously injuring at least five people... ...stiff penalties for motorists who kill, maim, and injure. VERB: V n, V

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Maltreat, wrong, abuse, do wrong to, do an ill office to, treat unjustly. 2. Harm, hurt, damage, spoil, impair, mar, disfigure, do harm to.

Moby Thesaurus

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