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injure Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 to hurt or cause physical harm to a person or animal:
- A bomb exploded at the embassy, injuring several people.
- She fell and injured her shoulder.
- He was badly injured in the crash.
- He claimed that working too hard was injuring his health.
1 to hurt a living creature, esp. to cause physical harm to someone:
- The bus careened out of control, injuring several people.
2 to harm someone or yourself:
- Part of the roof collapsed, seriously injuring six employees.
- be badly/critically/seriously injured The insurance pays out if you have been seriously injured at work.
3 to do damage to a business or its reputation:
- The market leader claims it has been injured by false advertising.

The troops bombarded the city, killing and injuring hundreds.
If you don't warm up before taking exercise, you risk injuring yourself.
They were only slightly injured in the crash.
I fell down the stairs and injured my back.
He had injured his left hand and was typing one-handed.
Property owners are held liable to trespassers who are injured by conditions that could foreseeably harm only wrongdoers.
Our tort law's system of imposing liability on defendants if they have tortiously injured plaintiffs is essentially a system of corrective justice.
Those codes, the newspaper explained, recognized such decrees but gave a right of action to any foreign individual whose rights were injured.