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Injure| Verb | 1. | injure - cause injuries or bodily harm tohurt - give trouble or pain to; "This exercise will hurt your back" trample - injure by trampling or as if by trampling; "The passerby was trampled by an elephant" concuss - injure the brain; sustain a concussion calk - injure with a calk overstretch, pull - strain abnormally; "I pulled a muscle in my leg when I jumped up"; "The athlete pulled a tendon in the competition" maim - injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation; "people were maimed by the explosion" sprain, wrick, rick, wrench, twist, turn - twist suddenly so as to sprain; "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days" subluxate - sprain or dislocate slightly; "subluxate the hip" stub, abrade, skin, scrape - strike against an object; "She stubbed her one's toe in the dark and now it's broken" harm - cause or do harm to; "These pills won't harm your system" fracture, break - fracture a bone of; "I broke my foot while playing hockey" knife, stab - use a knife on; "The victim was knifed to death" skin, scrape - bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of; "The boy skinned his knee when he fell" bruise, contuse - injure the underlying soft tissue of bone of; "I bruised my knee" graze - break the skin (of a body part) by scraping; "She was grazed by the stray bullet" | | | 2. | injure - hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised me ego"affront, diss, insult - treat, mention, or speak to rudely; "He insulted her with his rude remarks"; "the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone" lacerate - deeply hurt the feelings of; distress; "his lacerating remarks" sting - cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging; "His remark stung her" | | | 3. | injure - cause damage or affect negatively; "Our business was hurt by the new competition"damage - inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree" | |
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