injurer


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in·jure

 (ĭn′jər)
tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures
1.
a. To cause physical harm to; hurt: The accident injured the passengers. The fall injured his knee.
b. To experience injury in (oneself or a body part): She injured her ankle climbing down the hill.
2.
a. To cause damage to; impair: The gossip injured his reputation.
b. To commit an injustice or offense against; wrong: people who were injured by the false accusations.
3. To cause distress to; wound: injured their feelings.

[Middle English injuren, to wrong, dishonor, from Old French injurier, from Latin iniūriārī, from iniūria, a wrong; see injury.]

in′jur·er n.
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I sank to the ground, and my injurer, with increased swiftness, escaped into the wood.
For all these are ready to witness on behalf of the corrupter, of the injurer of their kindred, as Meletus and Anytus call me; not the corrupted youth only--there might have been a motive for that--but their uncorrupted elder relatives.
MUST I not wear stilts, that they may OVERLOOK my long legs--all those enviers and injurers around me?
--If I did not myself commiserate their PITY, the pity of those enviers and injurers!
One might have fancied that the big-headed babies were toppling over with their hydrocephalic attempts to reckon up the children of men who transform their benefactors into their injurers by the same process.
Article 265 of the Revised Penal Code punishes an injurer's failure to help on the spot the injured.
Each year, motor vehicle crashes are a leading killer and injurer of children.
It induces the injured and injurer to an endless cycle of retaliation.
According to police sources, the dispute was created between two groups of Baloch community over playing of cricket match in Shama Ground and when minor injurer brought in emergency of civil hospital where both groups people gathered there and started beating to each others.
injurer's conduct tort law will capture within its viewfinder, and
greater than) the expected externalized cost, will the potential injurer
Through strict liability, according to Schafer and Muller-Langer, "the self-interested injurer's objective [is] to minimize her private costs...