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