to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair:
to injure one's hand.
2.
to do wrong or injustice to.
3.
to wound or offend:
to injure a friend's feelings.
Origin
1575-85; back formation from injury (noun); replacing injury (v.)
Related forms
injurable, adjective
injurer, noun
quasi-injured, adjective
reinjure, verb (used with object), reinjured, reinjuring.
uninjured, adjective
uninjuring, adjective
Synonyms
1. spoil, ruin, break, mar. Injure, impair mean to harm or damage something. Injure is a general term referring to any kind or degree of damage: to injure one's spine; to injure one's reputation. To impair is to make imperfect in any way, often with a suggestion of progressive deterioration and of permanency in the result: One's health is impaired by overwork.2. maltreat, abuse.
Antonyms
1. benefit.
Examples from the web for injure
To prevent the problem, avoid overwatering and take care not to injure plants.
The commission's findings are being used as a cloak for an economic agenda that will injure lower- and middle-income households.
Psychopaths lie without compunction, injure without remorse, and cheat with little fear of detection.
It is one thing for a trainer to purposely injure a dog.
Angioplasty works well in the short term, but it can injure the artery wall.
Previous heart attacks can also leave scars that injure the heart's pacemaking electrical system.
In other cases, bullying is harmful and used to injure others physically, emotionally or socially.
Medicine has shown us that if you injure your brain in certain regions or components some brain functions maybe affected.
It protects people by alerting them to things that might injure them.
The curse of these lightweight birds is that they injure all too easily.
British Dictionary definitions for injure
injure
/ˈɪndʒə/
verb (transitive)
1.
to cause physical or mental harm or suffering to; hurt or wound
mid-15c., "do an injustice to, dishonor," probably a back-formation from injury, or else from Middle French injuriier, from Latin injurare. Injury also served as a verb (late 15c.). Related: Injured; injuring.