Antonyms for injure
ˈɪn dʒərin·jure

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1. injureverb

   Antonyms:
   praise, preserve, help, benefit

2. injureverb

   Antonyms:
   help, praise, benefit, preserve

3. injureverb

   Antonyms:
   preserve, praise, benefit, help

4. injureverb

   Antonyms:
   preserve, help, benefit, praise

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1. injure

   Abuse covers all unreasonable or improper use or treatment by word or act. A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect. It is possible to abuse a man without harming him, as when the criminal vituperates the judge; or to harm a man without abusing him, as when the witness tells the truth about the criminal. Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense. One may be justly reproached. To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence. To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives. "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy," Deut. xxiv, 14. Misemploy, misuse, and pervert are commonly applied to objects rather than to persons. A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms his associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, abuses every good gift of God.

   Antonyms:
   applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate

   Synonyms:
   abuse, aggrieve, damage, defame, defile, disparage, harm, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, reproach, revile, ruin, slander, victimize, vilify, violate, vituperate, wrong

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1. injure

   Antonyms:
   benefit, profit, repair, advance, advantage

   Synonyms:
   damage, wound, hurt, wrong, impair, maltreat, cripple, mar, spoil, sully, harm

Matched Categories

1. • Arouse
   • Damage
   • Hurt

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1. injure, woundverb

   cause injuries or bodily harm to

   Synonyms:
   spite, wound, bruise, hurt, offend

2. hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spiteverb

   hurt the feelings of

   "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"

   Synonyms:
   hurt, suffer, smart, violate, shock, appall, wound, transgress, scandalise, pique, contuse, appal, scandalize, outrage, bruise, go against, breach, pain, offend, infract, spite, anguish, ache, break

3. hurt, injureverb

   cause damage or affect negatively

   "Our business was hurt by the new competition"

   Synonyms:
   smart, hurt, wound, bruise, offend, ache, suffer, anguish, spite, pain

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1. injureverb

   Synonyms:
   damage, harm, hurt, impair, disfigure, maim, mar, wound

How to use injure in a sentence?

1. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

   There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.

2. Seneca:

   Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

3. Jonathan Caspi:

   The difference may be how severe the physical violence gets. Boys tend to do more damage, particularly when older, it was also assumed that girls relied more on relational aggression( e.g., strategies to socially humiliate, isolating, injure reputation) than boys. However, there is evidence that brothers use this approach about the same too.

4. Christopher Bannon:

   I've seen way too many people injure themselves, so this was more of a mindset to me, a common sense mindset to me, as far as trying to prevent them from going down that road and potentially injuring themselves.

5. Christopher Hart:

   Americans have a longstanding affinity with railroads and railroad tracks, but train tracks are private property and are dangerous places where trains kill and injure hundreds of people every year.

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