injure: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 13 letter points · starts with I · ends with E
Meaning of injure
verb
- transitive
To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
Example: The rugby team's star player got injured in a violent collision.
- transitive
To damage or impair.
- transitive
To do injustice to.
Listed forms: injures, injuring, injured.
Source: Wiktionary — injure.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for injure.
verb
cause injuries or bodily harm to
verb
hurt the feelings of
verb
cause damage or affect negatively
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is injure in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of injure
I(1) + N(1) + J(8) + U(1) + R(1) + E(1) = 13 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of injure
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from injure
20 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in injure. Showing up to 24, longest first.