Injure
['ɪndʒə] or ['ɪndʒɚ]
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
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, PLAY THE DEUCE WITH.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Damage, wound, hurt, wrong, impair, maltreat, cripple, mar, spoil, sully, harm
ANT:{[Benellt]?}, profit, repair, advance, advantage
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Definition
v.t. to wrong harm: to damage: to annoy.—n. In′jurer one who injures.—adj. Inju′rious tending to injure: unjust: wrongful: mischievous: damaging reputation.—adv. Inju′riously.—ns. Inju′riousness; In′jury that which injures: wrong: mischief: annoyance: (Pr. Bk.) insult offence.
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Examples
- But this base attempt to injure Mr. Pickwick recoiled upon the head of its calumnious author. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Hence it was necessary to maintain a constant vigilance to defeat the insidious attacks of carping critics and others who would attempt to injure the Edison system by misleading statements. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In Europe, if the French, who are white people, should injure the Dutch, are they to revenge it on the English, because they too are white people? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Secure them, he said, but do not injure them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- For a moment they lay there, and then Tarzan realized that the inert mass lying upon him was beyond power ever again to injure man or ape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It is those who injure women who get the most kindness from them--they are born timid and tyrants and maltreat those who are humblest before them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- If he wished to injure it why could he not do it there? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all, added little Amy, with an injured sniff. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I laid down Marian's letter, and felt myself--justly felt myself--an injured man. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- So Meg went down, wearing an injured look, and wasn't at all agreeable at breakfast time. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The injured man was laid on his bed, and at Holmes's request I examined him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Leitner hated Loerke with an injured, writhing, impotent hatred, and Loerke treated Leitner with a fine-quivering contempt and sarcasm. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She assumed an injured air as they came in, never lifted her eyes from her book, or asked a single question. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Others, less injured and still in fighting trim, were making for the beaches close beneath him that would bring them under the protection of his army. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And do you suppose that I ask these questions with any design of injuring you in the argument? Plato. The Republic.
- May I fold it over this shoulder without injuring your dress? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He asked her to let him study it, and shortly had made a frame on an entirely different plan that would do the same work without injuring the threads. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I wish Tamsie were not such a confoundedly good little woman, said Wildeve, so that I could be faithful to you without injuring a worthy person. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But are you not afraid to leave the horse in his power now, since he has every interest in injuring it? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It extinguishes electrical fires without injuring insulation or apparatus and without injury to the operator. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I have not shown any backwardness to assist Benny, where it could be done without injuring another. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In 1914 it was modified so that it injures nothing with which it comes in contact. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A metal roof reflects so much light that the eyes are dazzled by it, and a whitewashed fence injures the eyes because of the glare which comes from the reflected light. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Though it neither profits nor injures the dead, yet it is a comfort to the living. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It just injures it,' said Ursula. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It injures the article to transport it by sea. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This seldom injures brilliancy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If an Indian injures me, does it follow that I may revenge that injury on all Indians? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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