injure A2 Topic:People & Society US /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ UK /ˈɪn.dʒə/ See IPA manual Freq #20491 Meanings 1 verb To hurt a person or animal physically. The team's star player was injured in the match. 2 verb To damage something or harm it in some way. The scandal badly injured his reputation. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 verb · to hurt a person or animal... woundhurtdamage 2 verb · to damage something or harm... damagehurt Word family Forms injurerinjuresinjuringuninjured Derived forms injurableinjurerreinjureself-injure Related forms injuriousinjury Etymology AI details A back-formation from injury, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + iūs, iūris (“right, law”). *h₂yew- Proto-Indo-European injurie Middle English iniūria Latin View etymology graph -> Topics People & Society External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # injure **Type:** Word **Level:** A2 **Part of speech:** verb **IPA (US):** /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈɪn.dʒə/ **Frequency rank:** 20491 ## Meanings 1. To hurt a person or animal physically. 2. To damage something or harm it in some way. ## Examples - The team's star player was injured in the match. - The scandal badly injured his reputation. ## Derived Forms - injurable - injurer - reinjure - self-injure ## Related Forms - injurious - injury ## Roots and Affixes - Root: *h₂yew- - Root: injurie - Root: iniūria ## Etymology A back-formation from injury, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + iūs, iūris (“right, law”). ## AI Etymology Injure is a back-formation from injury, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + iūs, iūris (“right, law”). The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern verbal form is built from the named base and affix. The historical line also includes *h₂yew-. ## Topics - People & Society markdown