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Definition of Injure

1. Verb. Cause injuries or bodily harm to.

2. Verb. Hurt the feelings of. "Sam cannot injure Sue "; "This remark really bruised my ego"

3. Verb. Cause damage or affect negatively. "Our business was hurt by the new competition"

Definition of Injure

1. v. t. To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. (b) To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. (c) To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character. (d) To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue. (e) To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy. (f) To impair, as the intellect or mind.

Definition of Injure

1. Verb. (transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To damage or impair. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To do injustice to. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Injure

1. to do or cause injury to [v -JURED, -JURING, -JURES]

Medical Definition of Injure

1. To wound, hurt, or harm. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Injure

injudicious injudiciously injudiciousness injun injunct injuncted injuncting injunction injunctional injunctions

injunctive injunctives injuncts injuns injurable injure (current term) injured injured party injurer injurers

injures injuria injuria sine damno injuries injuring injurious injuriously injuriousness injuriousnesses injury

Literary usage of Injure

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"ID an action for conspiracy to injure and destroy another's business, by withdrawing and inducing others to withdraw their patronage, by false and malicious ..."

2. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... that they would not hurt or injure any of the Spaniards with them, or of their fellow ... or injure any of their plantations, they gave them hatchets, ..."

3. The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1867)
"... and to promote its welfare as far as in his power, it is a shameful and detestable crime to injure that very country. He who becomes guilty of it, ..."

4. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"Duress by threats to injure a third person. The early common law did not regard as duress the mental pressure exerted by imprisonment or threats to ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall (1900)
"Conspiracy to injure Another in His Trade or f Calling. It is also an indictable offense at common law to maliciously conspire to injure another in his ..."

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