All injure synonyms
inΒ·jure
I i verb injure
- hurt β to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- torture β the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
- wound β the act of winding.
- damage β To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
- cripple β A person with a physical disability or a serious permanent injury is sometimes referred to as a cripple.
- break β When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
- disable β make not work
- batter β If someone is battered, they are regularly hit and badly hurt by a member of their family or by their partner.
- maim β to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple: The explosion maimed him for life.
- mutilate β to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
- deface β If someone defaces something such as a wall or a notice, they spoil it by writing or drawing things on it.
- distress β great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- foul β grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome: a foul smell.
- impair β to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
- pique β a fabric of cotton, spun rayon, or silk, woven lengthwise with raised cords.
- torment β to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
- total β constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure.
- weaken β to make weak or weaker.
- tarnish β to dull the luster of (a metallic surface), especially by oxidation; discolor.
- ruin β ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- deform β If something deforms a person's body or something else, it causes it to have an unnatural shape. In technical English, you can also say that the second thing deforms.
- maltreat β to treat or handle badly, cruelly, or roughly; abuse: to maltreat a prisoner.
- vitiate β to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
- wax β a fit of anger; rage.
- blight β You can refer to something as a blight when it causes great difficulties, and damages or spoils other things.
- mar β to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
- pain β physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- disfigure β to mar the appearance or beauty of; deform; deface: Our old towns are increasingly disfigured by tasteless new buildings.
- distort β to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- contort β If someone's face or body contorts or is contorted, it moves into an unnatural and unattractive shape or position.
- wrong β not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- abuse β Abuse of someone is cruel and violent treatment of them.
- spoil β to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- sting β to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
- aggrieve β to grieve; distress; afflict
- undermine β to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
- blemish β A blemish is a small mark on something that spoils its appearance.
- grieve β to feel grief or great sorrow: She has grieved over his death for nearly three years.
- prejudice β an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
- mangle β to smooth or press with a mangle.
- harm β a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
- cut β If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
- scar β a precipitous, rocky place; cliff.
- burn β If there is a fire or a flame somewhere, you say that there is a fire or flame burning there.
noun injure
- clean out β If you clean out something such as a cupboard, room, or container, you take everything out of it and clean the inside of it thoroughly.
- dilapidate β to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
- use up β to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- lay waste β to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- wrecker β a person or thing that wrecks.
- ruination β the act or state of ruining or the state of being ruined.