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injures - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: injure
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hurt, harm
Synonyms: abuse, aggrieve, batter, blemish, blight, break, contort, cripple, cut up, damage, deface, deform, disable, disfigure, distort, distress, do in*, foul, foul up, grieve, impair, maim, maltreat, mangle, mar, mutilate, pain, pique, prejudice, ruin, shake up, spoil, sting, tarnish, torment, torture, total, undermine, vitiate, wax, weaken, wound, wrong, draw blood, hack up
Antonyms: aid, assist, cure, fix, heal, help, mend
Main Entry: batter
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: strike and damage
Synonyms: assault, bash, beat, break, bruise, buffet, clobber, cripple, crush, dash, deface, demolish, destroy, disable, disfigure, drub, hurt, injure, lacerate, lambaste, lame, lash, mangle, mar, maul, mutilate, pelt, pommel, pound, pummel, punish, ruin, shatter, smash, thrash, wallop, wreck, contuse
Main Entry: blast
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: explode
Synonyms: annihilate, blight, blow up, bomb, break up, burst, damage, dash, demolish, destroy, detonate, dynamite, injure, kill, ruin, shatter, shrivel, spoil, stunt, wither, wreck, torpedo
Main Entry: blemish
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: flaw, disfigure
Synonyms: blot, blotch, blur, damage, deface, distort, harm, hurt, impair, injure, maim, mangle, mar, mark, mutilate, pervert, prejudice, scar, smudge, spoil, spot, stain, sully, taint, tarnish, twist, vitiate, wrench
Antonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, ornament
Main Entry: blight
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: ruin, destroy
Synonyms: annihilate, blast, crush, damage, dash, decay, disappoint, foul up*, frustrate, injure, mar, mess up*, nip in the bud*, nullify, shrivel, spoil, taint, trash*, wither, wreck, glitch up
Antonyms: aid, bless, guard, help, prosper, protect
Main Entry: bring down
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: reduce or hurt
Synonyms: abase, cut down, damage, drop, fell, floor, injure, level, lower, murder*, overthrow, overturn, prostrate, pull down, slay*, tumble, undermine, upset, wound, KO, knock down, lay low, mow down, shoot down, throw down
Antonyms: aid, encourage, help, raise
Main Entry: bruise
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: break blood vessel; discolor
Synonyms: batter, beat, black, blacken, blemish, crush, damage, deface, injure, mar, mark, pound, pulverize, wound, zing*, bang up, bung up, contuse, do a number on
Main Entry: contaminate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: adulterate
Synonyms: alloy, befoul, corrupt, debase, debauch, defile, deprave, desecrate, dirty, harm, infect, injure, pervert, poison, pollute, profane, soil, spoil, stain, sully, taint, tarnish, vitiate, muck up, radioactivate
Antonyms: clean, cure, heal, purify, sterilize
Main Entry: crack
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: break, usually into parts
Synonyms: burst, chip, chop, cleave, crackle, crash, damage, detonate, explode, fracture, hurt, impair, injure, pop, ring, sever, shiver, snap, splinter, split, rive
Antonyms: fix, mend
Main Entry: cripple
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: disable; make lame
Synonyms: attenuate, blunt, debilitate, disarm, dismember, enfeeble, hamstring*, hurt, incapacitate, injure, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, paralyze, prostrate, sap, sideline*, stifle, undermine, weaken, dislimb, immobilize, palsy, unstrengthen
Antonyms: aid, assist, enable, help, strengthen, support
Main Entry: deaden
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: diminish, muffle, quiet
Synonyms: abate, alleviate, benumb, blunt, check, chloroform, consume, cushion, damp, dampen, depress, deprive, desensitize, destroy, devitalize, dim, dope, drown, dull, exhaust, freeze, frustrate, gas, hush, impair, incapacitate, injure, knock out, lay out, lessen, mute, numb, paralyze, reduce, repress, retard, slow, smother, soften, stifle, stun, stupefy, suppress, tire, tone down, unnerve, weaken, KO, anesthetize, etherize, put out of order, put to sleep, quieten
Antonyms: animate, build, enliven, increase, strengthen
Main Entry: debilitate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: incapacitate
Synonyms: attenuate, blunt, cripple, devitalize, disable, enervate, enfeeble, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, harm, hurt, injure, mar, prostrate, relax, sap, spoil, undermine, weaken, wear out, unbrace, unstrengthen
Antonyms: aid, assist, cure, energize, help, invigorate, mend, strengthen
Main Entry: deface
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: mar, mutilate
Synonyms: blemish, contort, damage, deform, demolish, destroy, disfigure, distort, harm, impair, injure, mangle, obliterate, ruin, scratch, spoil, sully, tarnish, trash*, vandalize, wreck, dilapidate, misshape
Antonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, fix, mend, ornament, repair
Main Entry: deform
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: distort, disfigure
Synonyms: batter, blemish, buckle, contort, cripple, damage, deface, flaw, grimace, impair, injure, knot, maim, mangle, mar, mutilate, ruin, skew, spoil, twist, warp, wince, gnarl, malform, misshape
Antonyms: beautify, improve
Main Entry: degrade
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: shame, humiliate
Synonyms: abase, belittle, bench, break, bump, bust, canker, cheapen, corrupt, debase, debauch, decry, degenerate, demean, demote, depose, deprave, derogate, deteriorate, detract, diminish, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disparage, downgrade, humble, impair, injure, lessen, lower, pan*, pervert, put down, reduce, rule out, run down*, sink, slam, take down*, tear down*, vitiate, weaken, bemean, cast down, cut down to size, declass, disbar, mudsling, shoot down*, take down a peg
Antonyms: admire, approve, elevate, honor, promote, upgrade
Main Entry: deteriorate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: decay, degenerate
Synonyms: adulterate, alloy, break, corrode, corrupt, crumble, debase, debilitate, decline, decompose, degrade, deprave, depreciate, descend, disintegrate, ebb, fade, fail, fall apart, flag, go to pieces*, impair, injure, languish, lapse, lessen, lower, mar, pervert, regress, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sink, skid, slide, spoil, undermine, vitiate, weaken, worsen, be worse for wear, become worse, disimprove, go downhill, go to pot, go to the dogs, hit the skids, lose it, lose quality, wear away
Notes: to degenerate means 'to decline in value, move lower on a scale' but to deteriorate means 'to worsen, to become lowered, or be reduced in value'; degenerate pertains more to character and virtue while deteriorate is more about loss of strength or vitality
Antonyms: build, construct, develop, improve, get better
Main Entry: disagree
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: be injurious
Synonyms: bother, discomfort, distress, hurt, injure, nauseate, sicken, trouble, upset, be distasteful, be disturbing, be sickening, be unsuitable, go against the grain, make ill
Antonyms: aid, help
Main Entry: disfigure
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make ugly
Synonyms: blemish, damage, deface, defile, deform, distort, hurt, injure, maim, mangle, mar, mutilate, scar, disfashion, disfeature
Antonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, ornament
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