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Another word for injure

Verb

  1. To cause physical damage to

    2. See also:

    help

  2. To spoil the soundness or perfection of

    3. See also:

    help

    better

  3. To cause suffering or painful sorrow to

    4. See also:

    happy

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Another word for injure

Verb
    2. See also:

    hurt

    hurt

    damage

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Sentence Examples

  • in 1220 a bull formally recognizing Joachim as orthodox and forbidding anyone to injure his disciples.

  • If carefully conducted, tapping does not injure the tree.

  • Then, gently and careful not to injure her shoulder, he made love to her.

  • To injure Spain and heedless of England's need, Paul IV.

  • In 1651 the Dutch completed a treaty with Denmark to injure English trade in the Baltic; to which England replied the same year by the Navigation Act, which suppressed the Dutch trade with the English colonies and the Dutch fish trade with England, and struck at the Dutch carrying trade.

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