Word Meanings - INJURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. To slander,

Additional info about word: INJURE

To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character. To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue. To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy. To impair, as the intellect or mind. When have I injured thee when done thee wrong Shak. Syn. -- To damage; mar; spoil; harm; sully; wrong; maltreat; abuse; insult; affront; dishonor. (more info) insult, in OF. also, to injure; or perhaps fr. E. injury, or F.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INJURE)

• Abuse
• Injure
• damage
• spoil
• maltreat
• treat-all
• ill-use
• ill-treat
• retile
• scandalize
• disparage
• reproach
• upbraid
• asperse
• malign
• slander
• vituperate
• prostitute
• defame
• pervert
• misuse
• misemploy
• vilify
• Aggrieve
• Wound
• trouble
• annoy
• hurt
• vex
• disappoint
• molest
• grieve
• afflict
• injure
• wrong
• Deface
• Mar
• disfigure
• deform
• mutilate
• destroy
• Hurt Wound
• bruise
• harm
• pain
• Impair
• Deteriorate
• reduce
• enfeeble
• vitiate
• diminish
• lessen

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INJURE)

• Laud
• praise
• approve
• commend
• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• please
• soothe
• delight
• gratify
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to INJURE)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• MALIGNITY
  1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward. 3. Extreme evilness of nature
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• BRUISEWORT
  A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
• REPROACHER
  One who reproaches.
• DEFAMER
  One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• VITIATE
  1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out
• SLANDEROUS
  1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• LESSEN
  To become less; to shrink; to contract; to decrease; to be diminished; as, the apparent magnitude of objects lessens as we recede from them; his care, or his wealth, lessened. The objection lessens much, and comes to no more than this: there was
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• DISPARAGEMENT
  1. Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser. 2. Injurious comparison with an inferior; a
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• MALIGNANT
  Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule , a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline