Better and Injure

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Better

Better verb - To make better.
Usage example: social workers and reformers trying to better the lives of inner-city residents
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Injure is an antonym for better in outdo topic.

Injure

Injure verb - To reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of.
Usage example: the agent's treachery has injured our national security for years to come
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Better is an antonym for injure.
Nearby Words: injury, injurious, injuring
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face better face injure face
child better child injure child
kids better kids injure kids
creatures better creatures injure creatures

Both words in one sentence

  • Cut Himself Shaving Sufferers of CIPA injure themselves in all sorts of ways, especially when they're too young to know better, because the disease prevents them from feeling pain.
    Source: Cut Himself Shaving
  • Wrestling / Joey Ryan For want of a better place to put it, his "Balls of Steel" schtick (where someone attempts a low blow on him, only to injure themselves on his apparently indestructible scrotum) may fall under here.
    Source: Wrestling / Joey Ryan
  • Bull Seeing Red The Popeye cartoon "For Better Or Nurse" has Bluto deliberately trying to injure himself (as is Popeye) so he can be near nurse Olive at a hospital.
    Source: Bull Seeing Red
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