| injure | | |
| v. (body) | 1. injure, wound | cause injuries or bodily harm to. |
| ~ hurt | 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. |
| ~ excruciate, torture, torment | subject to torture.; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible" |
| ~ overstretch, pull | strain abnormally.; "I pulled a muscle in my leg when I jumped up"; "The athlete pulled a tendon in the competition" |
| ~ traumatise, traumatize, shock | inflict a trauma upon. |
| ~ 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" |
| ~ handicap, disable, incapacitate, invalid | injure permanently.; "He was disabled in a car accident" |
| ~ harm | cause or do harm to.; "These pills won't harm your system" |
| ~ run over, run down | injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle. |
| ~ fracture, break | fracture a bone of.; "I broke my foot while playing hockey" |
| ~ shoot, pip, hit | hit with a missile from a weapon. |
| ~ 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 or bone of.; "I bruised my knee" |
| ~ graze | break the skin (of a body part) by scraping.; "She was grazed by the stray bullet" |
| v. (emotion) | 2. bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite, wound | hurt the feelings of.; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my 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" |
| ~ arouse, elicit, evoke, provoke, enkindle, kindle, fire, raise | call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses).; "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" |
| ~ lacerate | deeply hurt the feelings of; distress.; "his lacerating remarks" |
| ~ sting | cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging.; "His remark stung her" |
| ~ abase, chagrin, humiliate, humble, mortify | cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of.; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss" |
| v. (change) | 3. hurt, 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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