injure

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.dʒə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪndʒə(ɹ)

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.

   Synonyms: harm, wound; see also Thesaurus:harm

   The rugby team's star player got injured in a violent collision.

   I injured my ankle playing tennis.

2. (transitive) To damage or impair.

   Synonyms: disfigure, mar; see also Thesaurus:deface

3. (transitive) To do injustice to.

   Antonyms: benefit, help, praise, preserve

Derived terms

• injurable
• injurer
• reinjure
• self-injure

Related terms

• injurious
• injury

Translations

to wound or cause physical harm

• Arabic: جَرَحَ (ar) (jaraḥa)
• Azerbaijani: yaralamaq (az), xəsarət gətirmək
• Belarusian: ра́ніць impf or pf (ránicʹ), пара́ніць pf (paránicʹ)
• Bikol Central: uragan (bcl)
• Bulgarian: раня́вам (bg) impf (ranjávam), раня́ pf (ranjá)
• Catalan: ferir (ca), danyar (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏐᏅᏍᎦ (asonvsga)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傷害 / 伤害 (zh) (shānghài), 損傷 / 损伤 (zh) (sǔnshāng)

• Czech: zraňovat impf, ranit pf, zranit (cs) pf, poranit pf
• Danish: såre
• Dutch: kwetsen (nl), blesseren (nl)
• Esperanto: vundi
• Finnish: vahingoittaa (fi), haavoittaa (fi)
• French: blesser (fr)

  Old French: blechier

• Friulian: ferî
• Galician: ferir (gl), mancar (gl)
• German: verletzen (de)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (agljan)
• Greek: τραυματίζω (el) (travmatízo)

  Ancient: τιτρώσκω (titrṓskō), τραυματίζω (traumatízō), βλάπτω (bláptō)

• Haitian Creole: blese
• Hungarian: megsebesít (hu), megsebez (hu)
• Icelandic: slasa (is), særa
• Ingrian: verestää
• Irish: déan díobháil, díobháil, leon (ga), gortaigh
• Italian: ferire (it), danneggiare (it)
• Japanese: 痛める (ja) (いためる, itameru), 傷付ける (きずつける, kizutsukeru)
• Korean: 해치다 (ko) (haechida)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: birîndar kirin (ku)

• Latin: noceo (la)
• Macedonian: ранува impf (ranuva), рани pf (rani)
• Norwegian: skade (no), såre
• Old English: wierdan
• Ottoman Turkish: یاره‌لامق (yaralamak)
• Polish: ranić (pl) impf, zranić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: ferir (pt), machucar (pt)
• Russian: ра́нить (ru) impf or pf (ránitʹ), пора́нить (ru) pf (poránitʹ)
• Sanskrit: द्रुह्यति (sa) (druhyati), हिनस्ति (sa) (hinasti)
• Sardinian: fèrrere
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ра̏нити pf

  Roman: rȁniti (sh) pf

• Sicilian: firiri (scn)
• Slovak: zraňovať impf, raniť pf, zraniť pf, poraniť pf
• Slovene: raniti pf
• Spanish: herir (es), lastimar (es), lisiar (es)
• Swahili: -jeruhi (sw)
• Swedish: skada (sv)
• Ukrainian: ра́нити impf or pf (rányty), пора́нити pf (porányty), зра́нити pf (zrányty)
• Welsh: anafu (cy), niweidio (cy), brifo (cy)

to cause damage or impair

• Azerbaijani: zərər vurmaq
• Bikol Central: uragan (bcl)
• Bulgarian: разва́лям (bg) impf (razváljam), повре́ждам (bg) impf (povréždam)
• Finnish: vahingoittaa (fi)
• French: blesser (fr)
• German: verletzen (de)
• Maori: whakakino, tunuhuruhuru
• Oromo: hubuu
• Russian: повреди́ть (ru) pf (povredítʹ)
• Spanish: injuriar (es)
• Swedish: skada (sv)

to do injustice to

• Bulgarian: оби́ждам (bg) impf (obíždam), оскърбя́вам (bg) impf (oskǎrbjávam)
• Finnish: olla epäoikeudenmukainen, loukata (fi)
• Maori: tunuhuruhuru
• Norwegian: skade (no)
• Russian: обижа́ть (ru) impf (obižátʹ), оби́деть (ru) pf (obídetʹ)
• Spanish: injuriar (es)

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Translations to be checked

• Scottish Gaelic: ^{(please verify)} leòn, ^{(please verify)} ciùrr, ^{(please verify)} sàraich, ^{(please verify)} mill
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} niweidio (cy), ^{(please verify)} anafu (cy)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French injurie, borrowed from Latin injuria, iniūria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.ʒyʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

injure f (plural injures)

1. offense, insult

Related terms

• injurier
• injurieux
  • injurieusement

Further reading

• “injure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Adjective

injūre

1. vocative masculine singular of injūrus