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[ UK /ˈɪnd‍ʒɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈɪndʒɝ/ ]
VERB
  1. cause injuries or bodily harm to
  2. cause damage or affect negatively
    Our business was hurt by the new competition
  3. hurt the feelings of
    This remark really bruised my ego
    She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests

How To Use injure In A Sentence

  • Companies have been urged to make sure their staff do not injure themselves at office Christmas parties by dancing on desks or photocopying themselves.
  • A 19-year-old man was killed and four other people, including a pregnant woman, were injured when their car was riddled with bullets by the soldiers.
  • He added: ‘As far as I know nobody was injured at the incident, although the football match was abandoned.’
  • Whatever you think of Strandlof and the months he masqueraded as a brain-injured veteran, the simple truth two months after his web of lies came apart is that public disgrace seems to have changed him little. Heroes or Villains?
  • The referee said I was a liar and a cheat, but my foot was injured at that time.
  • Matters went on pretty well with us until my master was seized with a severe fit of illness, in consequence of which his literary scheme was completely defeated, and his condition in life materially injured; of course, the glad tones of encouragement which I had been accustomed to hear were changed into expressions of condolence, and sometimes assurances of unabated friendship; but then it must be remembered that I, the handsomest blue coat, was _still in good condition_, and it will perhaps appear, that if I were not my master's The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827
  • An explosion at a chemical plant has left one worker dead and four injured.
  • The injured man is doing nicely in hospital.
  • A fifteen year old girl was among the injured.
  • Quarterback Brady Anderson was injured in an unfortunate collision with one of his team-mates.
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