Synonyms of harming

harming

verb

present participle of harm

1

as in damaging

to cause bodily damage to

though she wasn't harmed by the flying glass, she slipped and fell on a piece and cut her hand

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fixing
• healing
• curing
• remedying
• mending

2

as in injuring

to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of

the company's reputation has been harmed by allegations of crooked accounting

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of harming

On more than one occasion, the nannies were seen physically harming the children on camera. — Austin Turner, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026

Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco is facing backlash from fellow comics who claim his takeover of SiriusXM’s Raw Comedy channel is harming up-and-coming talent, as reported earlier by Deadline. — Emma Roth, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2026

This case could impact other states seeking to hold companies accountable for allegedly harming local communities. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 5 Oct. 2026

The revised rule also allows landowners to clear areas that had been preserved as wildlife corridors on their land without being liable for harming the panthers. — Timothy Randhir, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026

Miners in poor countries may use the toxic metal to separate gold from other materials, harming people and the environment. — Aniruddha Ghosal, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026

Monks and nuns take more stringent precautions to avoid harming creatures, even accidentally. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Sep. 2026

If relief required harming the user, such as by deleting photos of their children, the AI would often gladly take it. — New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2026

The first-of-its-kind program uses noninvasive methods to collect and analyze genetic material without harming the animals, and researchers will study Casper the same way. — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2026