Word

injure, v.
(injured, injures, injuring)
freq. cnt. 12

cause injuries or bodily harm to
<verb.body> freq. cnt.: 17 freq. cnt.: 12 freq. cnt.: 5

injure wound

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

injury injury injury

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

wounding wound wound

semantic pointers

hypernym

hurt

hyponym

trample concuss calk torture, excruciate, torment pull, overstretch traumatize, traumatise, shock maim sprain, turn, twist, wrench, wrick, rick subluxate handicap, disable, invalid, incapacitate harm run over, run down fracture, break shoot, hit, pip stab, knife skin, scrape bruise, contuse graze

cause damage or affect negatively
<verb.change> freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 4

hurt injure

sample sentences

"Our business was hurt by the new competition"

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

hurt

semantic pointers

hypernym

damage

hurt the feelings of
<verb.emotion> freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 3

bruise hurt injure offend spite wound

sample sentences

"She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"
"This remark really bruised my ego"

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sam cannot %s Sue
The performance is likely to %s Sue

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sam cannot %s Sue

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sam cannot %s Sue

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sam cannot %s Sue

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sam cannot %s Sue

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

offensive offense offence

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

spite spite

semantic pointers

hyponym

insult, affront, diss lacerate sting humiliate, humble, mortify, chagrin, abase

hypernym

arouse, evoke, elicit, provoke, fire, raise, enkindle, kindle