woundverb(INJURE)

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to hurt someone physically
hurtI hurt my arm climbing over the fence.
injureThe bomb killed ten people and injured many more.
woundHe was wounded so badly in the attack that doctors said he might never walk again.
maimThe atrocities have killed or maimed thousands of people.
tortureThe guards were accused of torturing prisoners.
stabHe was fatally stabbed with a kitchen knife.
The troops bombarded the city, killing and injuring hundreds.部队连续炮击了该市，导致数百人伤亡。
If you don't warm up before taking exercise, you risk injuring yourself.
They were only slightly injured in the crash.他们在撞车事故中只受了点轻伤。
I fell down the stairs and injured my back.我跌下楼梯，后背受了伤。
He had injured his left hand and was typing one-handed.他的左手受了伤，就用一只手打字。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Injuring and injuries
at-risk
battered child syndrome
battered woman syndrome
be in the warsidiom
bite
eviscerate
first degree
flesh wound
fourth degree
gash
granulate
incapacitate
insult
personal injury
pi
pull
reinjure
reinjury
wounded
wrench

Examples of injuring

injuring

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Thus, instead of being confronted, the feelings are acted out, for example by injuring others.
Findings regarding spontaneously reported motivations and endorsed motivations for injuring are presented separately.
The purpose of the relevant counter factual is to determine those effects that result from the injuring act.
Strikes, by necessity, injure another, and injuring another cannot be ethically neutral.
At this point, there is a danger of injuring one of the coronary arteries which often run very close to this orifice.
It is imperative that we avoid injuring members of the human community in the practice of medicine, to be sure.
In singling out and injuring criminals, punishment differentiates right action from wrong action, thereby establishing what right and wrong are.
It is a wrongful injuring of the plaintiff.
Inexperienced workers could cause damage by driving the piston too far forward and injuring the die plate or screening apparatus.
But this gain came at the cost of injuring others who were denied access to alcohol, in addition to violence, corruption and other costs that attend black markets.
Responses from the groups suggest that older people are willing to receive and accept advice, and eager to learn how to minimise the likelihood of injuring themselves.
In tort law, for instance, the state requires those who are, in certain ways and under certain conditions, responsible for injuring others to provide their victims compensation.
There is usually an abundance of chordal apparatus in this area and it is also a region where the surgeon tries to avoid injuring the conduction tissue.
Cost functions for collision consequences must include factors beyond those commonly used in kinematics or qualitative physics models, such as prohibitions on injuring humans and animals.
Ironically, the very illogic, characteristic, too, of many printed slurs, shrewdly implicated an incongruous set of symbols for the timely, self-serving purpose of injuring political rivals and partisan women.
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