[
UK
/ˈɪndʒɐ/
]
[ US /ˈɪndʒɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɪndʒɝ/ ]
VERB
- cause injuries or bodily harm to
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cause damage or affect negatively
Our business was hurt by the new competition -
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.