injure

injure
injure [in′jər]
vt.
injured, injuring [altered < earlier injury, to harm < LME injurien < MFr injurier < L injuriari < injuria: see INJURY]
1. to do physical harm or damage to; hurt
2. to offend (one's feelings, pride, etc.); wound
3. to weaken or otherwise cause a loss in value to (a business, reputation, etc.)
4. to be unjust to; wrong
injurer
n.
SYN.- INJURE implies the marring of the appearance, health, soundness, etc. of a person or thing [injured pride ]; HARM more strongly suggests the pain or distress caused [he wouldn't harm a fly ]; DAMAGE stresses the loss, as in value, usefulness, etc., resulting from an injury [damaged goods ]; HURT implies a wounding physically or emotionally or a causing of any kind of harm or damage [the rumors hurt his business ]; to IMPAIR something is to cause it to deteriorate in quality or to lessen in value, strength, etc. [impaired hearing ]; SPOIL implies such serious impairment of a thing as to destroy its value, usefulness, etc. [the canned food was spoiled]

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  • injure — Injure, Iniuria, Maledictum, Probrum. Injure verbale, Conuitium, Maledictum. B. Laide injure, Blasphemia. Laisser l injure, Concedere iniuriae. Par injure, Contumeliae causa. Nulle injure m a esmeu, Nulla iniuria meipsum pepulit. Prendre à injure …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • injure — INJURE. s. f. Tort, outrage de fait ou de parole. Grande injure. injure atroce, sanglante, irreparable. faire injure, faire une injure à quelqu un. endurer, souffrir une injure. oublier, pardonner les injures. repousser les injures. venger l… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • injure — in·jure vt in·jured, in·jur·ing 1: to interfere with or violate the legally protected interests of: as a: to harm the physical, emotional, or mental well being of b: to cause (another) to suffer from damage to, deprivation of, or interference… …   Law dictionary

  • injure — injure, harm, hurt, damage, impair, mar, spoil all mean to affect someone or something so as to rob it of soundness, strength, or perfection or to reduce its value, usefulness, or effectiveness. Injure in its earliest and still frequent sense… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • injure — in‧jure [ˈɪndʒə ǁ ər] verb [transitive] 1. to cause physical harm to someone or to yourself, for example in an accident: • He sought compensation after being injured by a defective product. 2. to make an industry, economy, company, or investor… …   Financial and business terms

  • injure — INJURE: Doit toujours se laver dans le sang …   Dictionnaire des idées reçues

  • injure — (v.) mid 15c., do an injustice to, dishonor, probably a back formation from INJURY (Cf. injury), or else from M.Fr. injuriier, from L. injurare. Injury also served as a verb (late 15c.). Related: Injured; injuring …   Etymology dictionary

  • injure — [v] hurt, harm abuse, aggrieve, batter, blemish, blight, break, contort, cripple, cut up, damage, deface, deform, disable, disfigure, distort, distress, do in*, draw blood*, foul, foul up, grieve, hack up, impair, maim, maltreat, mangle, mar,… …   New thesaurus

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