injure, wound
(verb) cause injuries or bodily harm to
hurt, injure
(verb) cause damage or affect negatively; “Our business was hurt by the new competition”
hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite
(verb) hurt the feelings of; “She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests”; “This remark really bruised my ego”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
injure (third-person singular simple present injures, present participle injuring, simple past and past participle injured)
(transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
(transitive) To damage or impair.
(transitive) To do injustice to.
• harm
• damage
• hurt
• disfigure
• wound
• mar
• impair
• praise
• help
• preserve
• benefit
Source: Wiktionary
In"jure, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Injured; p. pr. & vb. n. Injuring.] Etym: [L. injuriari, fr. injuria injury, perh. through F. injurier to insult, in OF. also, to injure; or perhaps fr. E. injury, or F. injure injury. See Injury.]
Definition: 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. When have I injured thee when done thee wrong Shak.
Syn.
– To damage; mar; spoil; harm; sully; wrong; maltreat; abuse; insult; affront; dishonor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 January 2025
(noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
