Read full poem →With every sprightly, every decent part;
Equal, the injured to defend,
To charm the mistress, or to fix the friend.
Dictionary Entry
To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. injuredparty injuredperson injuredman injuredinjured seriously
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Poetry examples for “injured”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →What can atone (O ever-injured Shade!)
Thy fate unpitied, and thy rites unpaid?
Read full poem →Changed to a bird, and sent to flit in air,
She dearly pays for Nisus' injured hair!
Read full poem →r* Is but to stick, &c.^ — Mr. Seward has in this passage amended the punctuation, which
in the former copies materially injured the sense. The reader is desired to consult the lection
qf the present edition, and note *^ actiii. scene ii, of The Tragedy qfBonduca, vol, it. p. 323-4.
Read full poem →{133a} “Where the discussion of faults is general, no one is injured.”
Read full poem →Without a scratch, was once inhabited
By trees that injured him -- an evil trash
That made a cage, and held him while he bled.
Read full poem →If the old wrong and all its injured glamour
Haunts you by day and gives your night no peace,
Read full poem →Alas! alas! who's injured by my love?
What merchant's ships have my sighs drown'd?
Read full poem →Our hands ne'er touch'd the seals,
Which nature, injured by late law, sets free.
These miracles we did; but now alas!
Read full poem →And forced their sovereign's act, they could not his consent.
Oh how much rather had that injured chief
Repeated all his sufferings past,