injure

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verb

1. cause injuries or bodily harm to (Freq. 12)
• Syn:
wound
• Derivationally related forms:
wound (for: wound), wounding (for: wound), injury
• Hypernyms:
hurt
• Hyponyms:
trample, concuss, calk, torture, excruciate,
torment, pull, overstretch, traumatize, traumatise, shock,
maim, twist, sprain, wrench, turn, wrick,
rick, subluxate, disable, invalid, incapacitate, handicap,
harm, run down, run over, fracture, break, shoot,
hit, pip, knife, stab, skin, scrape,
bruise, contuse, graze
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
2. cause damage or affect negatively
- Our business was hurt by the new competition
• Syn:
hurt
• Derivationally related forms:
hurt (for: hurt)
• Hypernyms:
damage
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
3. hurt the feelings of
- She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests
- This remark really bruised my ego
• Syn:
hurt, wound, bruise, offend, spite
• Derivationally related forms:
spite (for: spite), offensive (for: offend), offence (for: offend), offense (for: offend)
• Hypernyms:
arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke,
fire, raise, provoke
• Hyponyms:
diss, insult, affront, lacerate, sting,
humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Sam cannot injure Sue

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  hurt, wound, bruise, offend, spite