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

According to the Cleveland Clinic, sepsis is a reaction to an infection that involves the immune system harming healthy tissues and organs. — Adam England, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026

Skip pruning woody plants in fall to avoid harming them; wait until late winter or spring. — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2026

Using unclean tools can introduce pathogens or diseases to your mint plants, potentially harming them and affecting future harvests. — Lauren Wellbank, Martha Stewart, 14 Sep. 2026

Any sign that a child is thinking about harming themselves needs immediate professional attention. — Ash Jurberg, Parents, 13 Sep. 2026

In the wake of the mass murders, the country looked as if for the first time at shoring up every vulnerability to stop radical jihadists from harming us again. — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026

From suicides to sextortion, parents and their children are wrestling with how social media and AI chatbots could be harming people’s mental and physical health. — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026

Honeybees have barbed stingers that tear away upon stinging, but wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets have smooth stingers that allow them to sting repeatedly without harming themselves. — Nick Perry, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026

During a television interview last week, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian expressed frustration that some of his fellow political leaders continue to deny that sanctions are harming the country. — Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2026