Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb injure

3 senses of injure

Sense 1
injure, wound -- (cause injuries or bodily harm to)
       => hurt -- (give trouble or pain to; "This exercise will hurt your back")

Sense 2
hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite -- (hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego")
       => arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke -- (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy")

Sense 3
hurt, injure -- (cause damage or affect negatively; "Our business was hurt by the new competition")
       => damage -- (inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree")

Antonyms of adj injured

1 sense of injured

Sense 1
injured (vs. uninjured) -- (harmed; "injured soldiers"; "injured feelings")

uninjured (vs. injured) -- (not injured physically or mentally)
        => intact, inviolate -- ((of a woman) having the hymen unbroken; "she was intact, virginal")
        => uncut -- (not cut; "glad to get out of the house with my throat uncut"- Tobias Smollett)
        => unharmed, unhurt, unscathed, whole -- (not injured)
        => unwounded -- (not wounded)

Similarity of adj injured

1 sense of injured

Sense 1
injured (vs. uninjured) -- (harmed; "injured soldiers"; "injured feelings")
       => battle-scarred -- (scarred by battle)
       => black-and-blue, livid -- (discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin; "beaten black and blue"; "livid bruises")
       => disjointed, dislocated, separated -- (separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated shoulder")
       => eviscerate -- (having been disembowelled)
       => hurt, wounded -- (suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle; "nursing his wounded arm"; "ambulances...for the hurt men and women")
       => lacerate, lacerated, mangled, torn -- (having edges that are jagged from injury)
       => raw -- (having the surface exposed and painful; "a raw wound")
          Also See-> broken#1; damaged#1; impaired#1; unsound#2

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