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injure English

Meaning injure meaning

What does injure mean?
Definitions in simple English

injure Verb

— If you injure you cause an injury. You wound someone or something.

injure

— verb cause injuries or bodily harm to — verb (= hurt) cause damage or affect negatively Our business was hurt by the new competition — verb (= hurt, bruise) hurt the feelings of She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests This remark really bruised my ego

Synonyms injure synonyms

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injure English » English

hurt wound harm kill damage destroy spoil offend strike molest maim cut punish pain mutilate mar cripple cause pain beat up attack wrong trouble torment tease ruin impair harass annoy vitiate violate scathe oppress murder insult gash disable cause damage bruise break abuse wounded worry waste vex traumatize tear stick on stab spite persecute

Topics injure topics

What do people use injure to talk about?
Person Healthy

Injure
Physical actions Break, wear out

Damage

Conjugation injure conjugation

How do you conjugate injure?

injure · verb

Examples injure examples

How do I use injure in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Excessive smoking will injure your health.
Too much smoking tends to injure the voice.
You may injure yourself if you don't follow safety procedures.
Unless you keep early hours, you will injure your health.
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Movie subtitles

And when anyone does harm to the spirit of my SA. then the SA will not be harmed. but those who do this harm. will injure only themselves!
Whatever scandal injures us or any member of the company will injure you as well.
Be careful, they injure very easily.
Do you think a shot of that whisky would injure my spastic condition?
Since when did a man's smell ever injure your sensitive feelings?
Did you just fight and injure a man? - Yes, I did.
Stop him. He may injure himself.
Brancaleone da Norcia will never injure a virgin.
You're going to injure the Mrs.
If you move or cry out, Ruk may injure you.
I do not want to injure you. Fight, you two.
I trust they did not injure you too much, Captain.
Did you injure your hand, Ernest?
How can a benevolent God allow the branch of one of His own trees to crack and injure an innocent child?
I will not have you injure this one.
So you see, Herman, they were trying to injure you to collect on the policy you signed.
This has caused him to injure my uncle.
I do not want to injure you.
I trust they did not injure you too much, captain.
My compacted technique could seriously injure him.
Which thumb did you injure in that hunting accident-- the right or the left?
It's inexcusable to injure a guest.
Armed robbery, felonious assault, extortion, attempt to injure with destructive devices.
Did you there, on the ship in which you were then serving, did you attack and seriously injure a brother officer?
A few days before the crime, why did you try to drive your cart and horse onto the top of the manure heap for no reason, when it was obvious you would injure or kill your horse?
No, more important is that he don't injure eternal organs.
It's not true, I heard that is much worse when you injure your eternal organs.
That injure will tell on your appendix.
Monsieur doesn't want to injure me?
YOU THINK I'M A COMMON MAN YOU CAN INJURE WITHOUT ANSWERING FOR IT.

News and current affairs

Wittingly or unwittingly, individuals do things that injure other individuals.
If I injure you, you should be able to sue me.
Of course, individuals have a moral responsibility not to injure others.
Too often trade unions are seen as defending an unjust status quo, as complicit in maintaining gender and racial hierarchies, or else as being so politically self-interested that they injure the rest of society.
Likewise, China can injure Taiwan in ways that Taiwan cannot reciprocate.
In order to end lawlessness, the Palestinian security leadership will need to lift the protection given to armed individuals who have been using their weapons with impunity to injure, kill, and destroy property.
But military operations that kill or injure civilians often do not automatically qualify as crimes, as long as deliberately inflicting pain or humiliation on a helpless individual - even if he or she is an enemy - is not the aim.
As the organ crisis continued to deepen, we allowed donations from the living. This was particularly audacious, for it required us to abandon the supreme Hippocratic principle according to which it is unprofessional to injure a healthy person.
Even a small amount of nuclear material could kill and injure hundreds of thousands of innocent people.

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