Definition of Injure

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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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Injure Quotations

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
Kahlil Gibran

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
Plato

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
George Bernard Shaw

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Never injure a friend, even in jest.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace.
Morihei Ueshiba

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
Tertullian

People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves.
Debra Wilson

Injure Translations

injure in Afrikaans is bederf
injure in Danish is beskadige
injure in Dutch is bederven, beschadigen, havenen
injure in Finnish is pilata
injure in Latin is vulnero
injure in Norwegian is krenke, skade
injure in Portuguese is fira
injure in Spanish is lacerar, herir

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