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How to pronounce injure in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bruise, hurt, offend, spite, wound
Type of fire, kindle, provoke, arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, raise
Has types humble, chagrin, humiliate, affront, insult, diss, abase, lacerate, sting, mortify
Type Words
Synonyms wound
Type of hurt
Has types bruise, calk, wrick, break, rick, run down, run over, scrape, shock, shoot, skin, sprain, stab, subluxate, torment, torture, trample, traumatise, traumatize, turn, twist, wrench, concuss, contuse, disable, excruciate, fracture, graze, handicap, harm, hit, incapacitate, invalid, knife, maim, overstretch, pip, pull
Derivation injury
Type Words
Synonyms hurt
Type of damage

Examples of injure

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Marcus Camby appeared to injure his right foot with less than five minutes left.
From the latimes.com
Turner claimed he intended only to disable the tractor, not injure its operator.
From the dispatch.com
Howard is a lethal weapon, and some day he's going to seriously injure a player.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Staal was given a match penalty for attempting to injure Prust and was ejected.
From the sacbee.com
It's impossible for a thrown brick to injure a person behind the wall, he said.
From the kentucky.com
Specifically, they had warned him that he might injure the knee worse by playing.
From the sacbee.com
Gibbs also allegedly threatened to injure Winfield by dropping a weight on him.
From the thenewstribune.com
Be careful not to injure the tender, knobby, potato-like tubers below soil level.
From the dailynews.com
The impulse to self-injure, Seliner tells them, is a choice and not an addiction.
From the stltoday.com
More examples
  • Cause injuries or bodily harm to
  • Hurt: hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"
  • Hurt: cause damage or affect negatively; "Our business was hurt by the new competition"
  • Harmed; "injured soldiers"; "injured feelings"
  • Trauma or injury refers to any body damage due to a due a physical impact or accident. The degree of injury may range from mild to life and limb threatening.
  • To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature; To damage or impair; To do injustice to
  • (Injured) 50 severe, 984 temporary vision problems
  • Or Injured or Injury means bodily injury caused solely and directly by violent, accidental, visible and external means, which happens at a definite time and place during your period of cover and does not result from any illness, sickness or disease.
  • To interfere with the legally protected interest of another or to inflict harm on someone, for which an action may be brought. To damage or impair.