Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which injures or harms.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who injures or wrongs.

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  • noun One who injures something.

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Examples

  • Hateful to the sight of the injurer is the person of the injured, and I stand before you a living reproach, an awful witness both here and hereafter at the throne of God of what you ought to have been, and what you have neglected to be -- a father to your motherless child.

    Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers Susanna Moodie 1844

  • I sunk to the ground, and my injurer, with increased swiftness, escaped into the wood.

    Chapter 16 2010

  • Ah, so the peanut gallery is correct -- Rock Band's priority is to be a music sim, not a finger-contortion sim or a hand-injurer.

    Archive 2008-07-01 SVGL 2008

  • But the metaphor, like dynamite, might explode in ways that injurer the author.

    Balkinization 2006

  • But the metaphor, like dynamite, might explode in ways that injurer the author.

    Balkinization 2006

  • As a former abuse victim and self-injurer with history of an eating disorder, there are a lot of sensitive subjects for me.

    A Request to Readers (Triggers about Triggers) Susan Palwick 2008

  • For example, if you had written a post on all the self-injurious behavior you had seen in the ER, that might "trigger" a self-injurer to hurt herself.

    A Request to Readers (Triggers about Triggers) Susan Palwick 2008

  • ‘Then, the injurer would seem more wretched than the injured?’

    Consolation of Philosophy 2007

  • This slight, dark-haired child with red eyes, has the power to command Hell in order for retribution to be made to an injured party by way of damning the injurer to Hell forever.

    Hellgirl, Volume One | The Anime Blog 2007

  • We were all of opinion, before your letter came, that Mr. Lovelace was utterly unworthy of you, and deserved condign punishment, rather than to be blessed with such a wife: and hoped far more from your kind consideration for us, than any we supposed you could have for so base an injurer.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

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