injure
injure
verb (injures, injured, injured, injuring)
/ˈɪndʒə(r)/
1 injure somebody/something/yourself to harm yourself or somebody else physically, especially in an accident
He injured his knee playing hockey.
Three people were killed and five injured in the crash.
She injured herself during training.
She was seriously injured in a riding accident.
During the Second World War he was badly injured by a bomb.
He was hit by an unmarked police car and severely injured.
The man was critically injured after falling from a ladder.
Synonyms injure
Collocations Injuries
TOPICS Health problems B1
Collocations
adverb
badly
seriously
severely
2 ​injure something to damage somebody’s reputation, interests, feelings, etc.
This could seriously injure the company's reputation.
espionage activity that was likely to injure the national interest
Collocations
adverb
seriously
severely
verb + injure
be likely to
Word Origin
late Middle English: back-formation from injury.