The Collaborative International 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:
To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health.
To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate.
To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character.
To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue.
To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy.
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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.
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vb. (present participle of injure English)
Usage examples of "injuring".
He had no great hopes that either diagnostic unit could help him, but perhaps there'd be some skin-gloves and shin pads so he'd stop injuring himself.
Unfortunately, she could more clearly remember Paskutti and Tardma deliberately and enjoyably injuring her and Kai, and needlessly terrorizing two young girls.
Internal injuries as well as concussions were more serious, due to a rough landing which had pitched the inert bodies of the passengers around the shallow decks, piling up and injuring those beneath them.
He barely missed injuring himself on several occasions when composing so distracted him that he strayed off the narrow runner traces that were sometimes all he had to follow to his destination.
But harpers usually would not risk injuring their hands, and Robinton used that as a legitimate -and, to most, acceptable - excuse.
Piemur rolled over, away from both his friends for fear of injuring either and got stiffly to his feet.
Deegan's expression became indignant at the thought of injuring a valuable beast.
The area seemed so full of shipfish bodies that he wondered how they could move without injuring each other.
Our trials with caustic generally failed from the difficulty of not injuring too greatly the extremely fine tips.
We witnessed the effects of injuring longitudinally one side of the cotyledons of Avena and Phalaris.
Soon afterwards, the bomb blew up, killing six people and injuring almost a 1,000 more.
On February 26, 1993, a large bomb detonated underneath the twin towers, killing six people and injuring 1,000 more.
Several weeks later, a truck-bomb detonated under the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring 1,000 more.
It is probably due to the presence of this substance that raw meat is too powerful a stimulant, often injuring or even killing the leaves.
Their shortness, compared with those on the valves of the foregoing species, is intelligible if my view is correct that they serve to prevent too large animals forcing an entrance through the valve, thus injuring it.