injure

Other forms of injure

past tense

injured·

present participle

injuring·

third person

injures·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about injure

What does injure mean?

injure means "cause injuries or bodily harm to". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in injure?

injure has 2 syllables: in-jure. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪndʒɚ/.

What is another word for injure?

Close synonyms include wound, hurt, wound, bruise, offend. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is injure a common word?

injure is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.