On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Injure. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as hurt or wound and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Injure meaning
- To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
- To damage or impair.
- To do injustice to.
Synonyms of Injure
Using Injure
- The main meaning on this page is: To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature. | To damage or impair. | To do injustice to.
- Useful related words include: hurt, wound, provoke, raise.
- In the example corpus, injure often appears in combinations such as: to injure, injure the, and injure.
Context around Injure
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 9 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Injure
- In this selection, "injure" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seriously, must, left, anyone, israeli and children stand out and add context to how "injure" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include attempting to injure the person and battlefields severely injure many. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "injure" sits close to words such as abd, affectionate and aiden, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with injure
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
God forbid you injure or kill someone. (7 words)
Critics say the reforms will injure Israeli democracy. (8 words)
Emergencies like floods, earthquakes, and battlefields severely injure many. (9 words)
A jury on Tuesday found Mr Condon not guilty of two counts of discharging a firearm with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and three counts of firing a firearm in a manner likely to injure a person. (38 words)
The Denver Department of Public Safety on Tuesday released body camera footage showing three officers fire at an armed man outside Larimer Beer Hall and injure six bystanders in the busy bar district at 20th and Larimer streets. (38 words)
All Blacks great Dan Carter has opened up on his ongoing shame for being busted for drink-driving in Paris and how "to this day I’m so grateful I didn’t injure anyone on the roads". (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
For example, a fisherman must injure a fish, but he must attempt to do this with least trauma to fish and the fisherman must try to injure no other creature as he fishes.
A driver was left injure after a single-vehicle on a major Lincolnshire road.
A jury on Tuesday found Mr Condon not guilty of two counts of discharging a firearm with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and three counts of firing a firearm in a manner likely to injure a person.
All Blacks great Dan Carter has opened up on his ongoing shame for being busted for drink-driving in Paris and how "to this day I’m so grateful I didn’t injure anyone on the roads".
Chail was arraigned in February 2023, and pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to “injure the person of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, making threats to kill, and possessing an offensive weapon.
Critics say the reforms will injure Israeli democracy.
Emergencies like floods, earthquakes, and battlefields severely injure many.
God forbid you injure or kill someone.
Health chiefs have warned parents that the pointy ends of Candy Stars Lollipops could injure children.
He was also convicted of trying to seriously injure another youth with the knife at the same time.
It said protesters had set “booby traps” in the forest, including trip wires and sharp nails and stakes that officers might step on, that “were designed and employed to seriously injure or kill them”.
Other statutes can sometimes apply -- one pertaining to interstate threats involving explosives and another pertaining to interstate communications, which refers to extortion or threats to injure or kidnap somebody.
Real fans were unhappy with De Jong and accused him of intentionally trying to injure Miliato in the pre-season.
Restraint chairs are sometimes used in prisons and hospitals to control those who could injure themselves or others.
Rugby proposal video by Greetland All Rounders player who pretended to be injure.
Russian attacks across 10 Ukrainian oblasts kill 5, injure 24 over past 24 hours.
The Denver Department of Public Safety on Tuesday released body camera footage showing three officers fire at an armed man outside Larimer Beer Hall and injure six bystanders in the busy bar district at 20th and Larimer streets.
The first principle of natural law is: seek good and avoid evil; do good to others; injure no one; and give each person their due.
The new president promised to further mend and heal Nigeria, not to tear and injure the nation.
The other student is accused of making a direct threat to injure a teachers assistant.
Common combinations with injure
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to injure 44×
- injure the 21×
- and injure 21×
- injure or 15×
- seriously injure 10×
- or injure 10×
- injure people 9×
- injure themselves 8×
- injure his 8×
- can injure 8×