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

The first time, her 6-year-old child was close to harming our infant daughter, and my husband asked him to back off — not unkindly, and only after giving the neighbor a chance to intercede first. — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026

Brendan Nugent, 43, has been charged with dangerous driving causing serious injury and intentionally causing serious injury, as well as the federal crime of harming a public official, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. — CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

Moreno has also accused her ex-husband of harming their 2-year-old daughter, who suffered a fractured collarbone in February. — Lara Korte The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026

The overtime is sometimes related to one-on-one care for psychiatric patients who might be suicidal or in danger of harming other patients or staff members. — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026

The wave of lawsuits is the latest filed by states under their consumer protection laws, accusing tech giants that offer AI chatbots and social media platforms of harming children. — Marc Levy, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026

The Idaho complaint argues that ChatGPT has proven dangerous to vulnerable populations, going as far as coaching users on attempting suicide or harming others. — Harllie Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 14 Oct. 2026

OpenAI is facing a new wave of lawsuits from eight US states that accuse the company of harming children and misleading customers about the safety of ChatGPT, as reported earlier by Reuters. — Emma Roth, The Verge, 14 Oct. 2026

At their first meeting, the editor flagged scenes that could go without harming the story, which saved the production time and money, Rathnakumar says. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026