Dictionary Entry

injurious

Part of Speech: adjectivePronunciation: /ɪnˈdʒɔːɹɪəs/Used In Literature ↓

Causing physical harm or injury; harmful, hurtful.

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Common Phrases

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Poetry examples for “injurious”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

I beUeve this extremely injurious to Beaumont; but as the opinion, or
something like it, has lived for ages, and is frequent at this day, it is time

If in open air they grow,
Th’ injurious deed alike is done
By the hot relentless sun.

To the Rev. John Newton. Dec. 9, 1792, Reasons for
not being in haste with Milton; injurious effect of the
season on his spirits 406

If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious distance should not stop my way;
For then despite of space I would be brought,

Against my love shall be as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn;
When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow