Synonyms of injuring

injuring

verb

present participle of injure

1

as in damaging

to cause bodily damage to

injured himself while skiing

Synonyms & Similar Words

• damaging
• wounding
• hurting
• bruising
• harming
• torturing
• tearing
• mutilating
• maiming
• battering
• lacerating
• scarring
• blowing out
• tormenting
• scalding
• nicking
• impairing
• bloodying
• crippling
• gashing
• straining
• grazing
• hamstringing
• afflicting
• creasing
• mangling
• abusing
• cutting
• goring
• scathing
• maltreating
• marring
• contusing
• laming
• scraping
• spoiling
• laying up
• aggrieving
• blemishing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fixing
• healing
• curing
• remedying
• mending

2

as in marring

to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of

the agent's treachery has injured our national security for years to come

Synonyms & Similar Words

• damaging
• marring
• hurting
• crippling
• compromising
• weakening
• harming
• impairing
• breaking
• spoiling
• destroying
• eroding
• disfiguring
• bloodying
• wounding
• defacing
• undermining
• ruining
• crossing (up)
• vitiating
• shattering
• blemishing
• crabbing
• battering
• deteriorating
• flawing
• wrecking
• demolishing
• endamaging
• torturing
• denting
• wearing (away)
• mutilating
• smashing
• maiming
• enervating
• blighting
• tarnishing
• scouring
• enfeebling
• crushing
• disabling
• tormenting
• washing out
• lacerating
• devastating
• annihilating
• botching
• wasting
• totaling
• decimating
• pulverizing
• hamstringing
• mangling
• razing
• dinging
• clobbering
• bashing
• wiping out
• gumming (up)
• queering
• dashing
• tearing down
• laming
• scourging
• dinting
• doing in
• desolating
• banging up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• repairing
• rebuilding
• fixing
• reconstructing
• helping
• rehabilitating
• renovating
• patching
• mending
• healing
• reconditioning
• curing
• revamping
• remedying
• rectifying
• improving
• revising
• doctoring
• remodeling
• enhancing
• editing
• enriching
• bettering
• perfecting
• refining
• ameliorating
• meliorating

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of injuring

Kyiv region military administration head Tymur Tkachenko said on Saturday that a warehouse and production premise had been hit, injuring four people. — Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026

Elephants can be extremely destructive and dangerous, and several African countries must confront the problem of elephant herds destroying farmers’ crops and infrastructure as well as killing or injuring people. — Sello Motseta, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Elephants can be extremely destructive and dangerous, and several African countries must confront the problem of elephant herds destroying farmers' crops and infrastructure as well as killing or injuring people. — ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026

Federal investigators released their first report into what went wrong when 21 Air Flight 7598 overshot the runway at Miami International Airport last month, killing five people in a work van and seriously injuring five others. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026

His stay ended nine months later, his parents said, when a staffer sat on Christian roughly to restrain him, injuring his hip and sending him to the hospital for surgery. — Joseph Shapiro, NPR, 30 Sep. 2026

On the night of July 30, Russia fired more than 20 cruise missiles at Lviv, a city just 45 miles from the Polish border, killing a 35-year-old police officer and injuring 38 people. — Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2026

Hall, 25, is considered week-to-week after injuring his groin in Sunday’s 31-24 loss to the Lions, sources confirmed. — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026

Authorities said the confrontation began minutes after Cisneros stabbed a 68-year-old man near West 41st Street and Seventh Avenue, seriously injuring him. — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 28 Sep. 2026