injure

injure is a 6-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. verb. cause injuries or bodily harm to

   Synonyms: wound

3. verb. cause damage or affect negatively

   "Our business was hurt by the new competition"

   Synonyms: hurt

4. verb. hurt the feelings of

   "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"

   "This remark really bruised my ego"

   Synonyms: bruise, hurt, offend, spite, wound

Synonyms

wound, hurt, bruise, offend, spite

Common word forms

injured, injurer, injures, injuring

Words from these letters

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