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Injure

//ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature. transitive

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

  2. 2
    cause injuries or bodily harm to wordnet
  3. 3
    To damage or impair. transitive
  4. 4
    cause damage or affect negatively wordnet
  5. 5
    To do injustice to. transitive
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  1. 6
    hurt the feelings of wordnet

Etymology

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

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