Difference between Hurt and Injure

What is the difference between Hurt and Injure?

Hurt as a verb is to be painful. while Injure as a verb is to wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.

Hurt

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Wounded, physically injured. Pained.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A wound or pain. A roundel azure (blue circular spot).

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To be painful. To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury. To cause (somebody) emotional pain.

Example sentence: If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

Injure

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.To damage or impair.To do injustice to.

We hope you now know whether to use Hurt or Injure in your sentence.

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