Dictionary entry details
• INJURE (verb)
Meaning:
Cause injuries or bodily harm to
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
injure; wound
Hypernyms (to "injure" is one way to...):
hurt (give trouble or pain to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "injure"):
trample (injure by trampling or as if by trampling)
graze (break the skin (of a body part) by scraping)
bruise; contuse (injure the underlying soft tissue of bone of)
scrape; skin (bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of)
knife; stab (use a knife on)
hit; pip; shoot (hit with a missile from a weapon)
break; fracture (fracture a bone of)
run down; run over (injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle)
harm (cause or do harm to)
disable; handicap; incapacitate; invalid (injure permanently)
subluxate (sprain or dislocate slightly)
concuss (injure the brain; sustain a concussion)
calk (injure with a calk)
excruciate; torment; torture (subject to torture)
overstretch; pull (strain abnormally)
shock; traumatise; traumatize (inflict a trauma upon)
maim (injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation)
rick; sprain; turn; twist; wrench; wrick (twist suddenly so as to sprain)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Hurt the feelings of
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
spite; injure; wound; bruise; offend; hurt
Context examples:
She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests / This remark really bruised me ego
Hypernyms (to "injure" is one way to...):
arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "injure"):
affront; diss; insult (treat, mention, or speak to rudely)
lacerate (deeply hurt the feelings of; distress)
sting (cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging)
abase; chagrin; humble; humiliate; mortify (cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sentence example:
Sam cannot injure Sue
Meaning:
Cause damage or affect negatively
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
injure; hurt
Context example:
Our business was hurt by the new competition
Hypernyms (to "injure" is one way to...):
damage (inflict damage upon)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
