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What does injure mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word injure? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
  2. (transitive) To damage or impair.
  3. (transitive) To do injustice to.
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Avoid using wood treated with creosote or penta, as the vapors can injure some plants.
If you breach that duty of care, it is reasonably foreseeable that you're going to injure somebody.
Ms Lloyd said cacti could injure livestock and working dogs and contaminate wool.
Since pregnant women may feel more limber, they often over-stretch and injure themselves.
He said it was not reasonably foreseeable that, by placing a leaflet in the door, a dog could jump up and injure itself.
He then went on to say that since animals habitually injure each other we should not worry unduly about experimenting on them in a good cause.

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