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injure

UK/ˈɪn.dʒə//ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ/

injure verb: to wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.

Verb

injure (third-person singular simple present injures, present participle injuring, simple past and past participle injured)

  1. (transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
    • The rugby team's star player got injured in a violent collision.
    • I injured my ankle playing tennis.
    Synonyms:
    harm, wound, traumatize, abuse, annoy, bewound, damage, damnify, dere, do damage to
  2. (transitive) To damage or impair.
  3. (transitive) To do injustice to.

injure meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

injure in Tamil

to injure; to destroy
வாட்டு vāṭṭu
to injure, torment
தருக்கு tarukku

injure in Urdu

بگاڑنا, چوٹ لگان, گھائل کرنا, خراب کرنا, مجروح کرنا, ضرر پہنچانا

injure in Bengali

আঘাত করা, আহত করা, ক্ষতি করা

injure in Malayalam

ക്ഷതം വരുത്തുക, മുറിവേല്പിക്കുക, ദ്രോഹിക്കുക, പീഡിപ്പിക്കുക
More languagesFewer languages
injure in Kannada
ಗಾಯಮಾಡು, ನೋವು ಮಾಡು, ಬಾಧೆ ಕೊಡು, ಘಾಸಿ ಮಾಡು
injure in Sanskrit
द्रुह्यति druhyati, हिनस्ति hinasti
injure in Nepali
चोट पुऱ्याउने
injure in Arabic
جَرَحَ jaraḥa

Examples of injure in a sentence

  • They benched him for the rest of the game because they thought he was injured.
  • Four people were injured, with one of them in critical condition.
  • Three crewmembers are understood to have been injured in the explosion.

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Synonyms of injure

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Antonyms

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Forms of injure

third-person singular presentinjures
present participleinjuring
past participleinjured
pastinjured

Past tense of injure: injured

Origin of injure

A back-formation from injury, from Middle English injurie, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + iūs, iūris (“right, law”).

Words formed from injure

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Questions about injure

What does injure mean?
Injure means to wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
What is injure in Tamil?
Injure in Tamil is வாட்டு (vāṭṭu), தருக்கு (tarukku). See Injure meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is injure?
Injure is a verb.
How do you pronounce injure?
Injure is pronounced /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ (US).
What is the past tense of injure?
The past tense of injure is injured.

Words near injure in the dictionary

  1. injuncts
  2. injuns
  3. injurable
  4. injurant
  5. injurants
  6. injure
  7. injured
  8. injured parties
  9. injured party
  10. injuredly
  11. injuredness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: injure (page history and authors); தருக்கு (Tamil) (page history and authors); injure (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Injure (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); injure (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); injure (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); injure (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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