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injure

verb
/ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ/US/ˈɪn.dʒə/UK

Etymology

A back-formation from injury, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + iūs, iūris (“right, law”).

  1. derived from iniūria
  2. derived from injurie

Definitions

  1. To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.

    • The rugby team's star player got injured in a violent collision.
    • I injured my ankle playing tennis.

  2. To damage or impair.

  3. To do injustice to.

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Derived

injurable, injurer, reinjure, self-injure

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at injure. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01injure02living03life04preceding05rank06acting07authority08power09coerce10threat

A definitional loop anchored at injure. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at injure

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA