Synonyms for injure
Definitions
- v. 1
To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
I injured my ankle playing tennis.
- v. 2
To damage or impair.
Forms
- Past participle
- injured
e.g. injured → harmed, maimed, damaged, crippled…
Choose the right word
To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- damage The explosion did a lot of damage to the building.
- harm This kind of magazine can do harm to young people.
- cripple But I have nothing left. I am just an old cripple.
- maim If you try to stare down a bear, it will maim you.
- hurt I don't want to hurt Tom, but I will if I have to.
- wound He cleansed the wound before putting on a bandage.
By length
- 3 letters
- mar1
- 4 letters
- hurt1, harm1, maul1, maim1
- 5 letters
- wrong1, abuse2, wound1, spite1, spoil1, annoy2, sully2
- 6 letters
- damage2, insult2, offend2, mayhem2, grieve1, bruise1, impair2, defile, deform2, deface2, debase2
- 7 letters
- destroy2, violate3, cripple2, distort2, blemish2, pollute2, tarnish2, afflict2, bewound
- 8 letters
- distress2, mutilate3, maltreat, aggrieve2
- 9 letters
- disfigure3
- 10 letters
- traumatize3, traumatise
- 11 letters
- contaminate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (abuse2 = 2 syllables).