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Injure

To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. (b) To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. (c) To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character. (d) To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue. (e) To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy. (f) To impair, as the intellect or mind.

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Manner of action 40

Abase 76% connected

To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.

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Affront 76% connected

To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Bruise 76% connected

To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a s…

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Calk 76% connected

To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams w…

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Chagrin 76% connected

Vexation; mortification.

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Concuss 76% connected

To shake or agitate.

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Contuse 76% connected

To beat, pound, or together.

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Disable 76% connected

Lacking ability; unable.

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Excruciate 76% connected

Excruciated; tortured.

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Fracture 76% connected

The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

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Graze 76% connected

To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.

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Handicap 76% connected

An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additiona…

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Harm 76% connected

Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

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Hit 76% connected

It.

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Humble 76% connected

Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

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Humiliate 76% connected

To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify.

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Incapacitate 76% connected

To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war.

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Insult 76% connected

The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

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Invalid 76% connected

Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak.

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Knife 76% connected

An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and…

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Lacerate 76% connected

To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.

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Maim 76% connected

To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person on fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.

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Mortify 76% connected

To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.

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Pip 76% connected

A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming…

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Pull 76% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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Rick 76% connected

A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching.

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Scrape 76% connected

To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface…

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Shock 76% connected

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…

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Shoot 76% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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Skin 76% connected

The external membranous integument of an animal.

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Sprain 76% connected

To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without lux…

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Stab 76% connected

To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to sta…

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Sting 76% connected

Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal stin…

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Torment 76% connected

An engine for casting stones.

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Torture 76% connected

Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

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Trample 76% connected

To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers.

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Twist 76% connected

To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

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Wrench 76% connected

Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.

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Broader term 10

Arouse 76% connected

To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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Damage 76% connected

Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

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Elicit 76% connected

Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

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Enkindle 76% connected

To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.

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Evoke 76% connected

To call out; to summon forth.

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Fire 76% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Hurt 76% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Kindle 76% connected

To bring forth young.

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Provoke 76% connected

To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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Raise 76% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Harm 74% connected

Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

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Harm 74% connected

Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

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Injury 74% connected

Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong,…

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Injury 74% connected

Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong,…

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Synonym 5

Bruise 92% connected

To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a s…

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Hurt 92% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Offend 92% connected

To strike against; to attack; to assail.

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Spite 92% connected

Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.

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Wound 92% connected

of Wind

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