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

Starting center Tyler Biadasz was lost for the season after injuring his knee in training camp. — Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026

An armed man carrying multiple weapons lunged at Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton at the Canfield Fair, injuring several attendees. — Gary Fields, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026

Today's top stories The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating after a cargo plane crashed at Miami International Airport yesterday, killing five people and injuring five others. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 7 Sep. 2026

Temascalcingo, MexicoAP — Pyrotechnic material exploded during the festival for a patron saint in a town in Mexico State, collapsing a wall, killing at least 10 people and injuring another 64, Mexican authorities said. — CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026

But the violence is not contained as Senator Olson ends a simple but incredibly effective car chase by driving into an oncoming semi-truck, injuring the truck driver to the point of critical condition. — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2026

Also, killing one person and injuring another is not acceptable, mentally ill or not. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026

Last night, the Russians struck a civilian enterprise in Kamianske, in the Dnipro region, killing four people and injuring five others. — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026

An Idaho driver has been sentenced to life in prison for killing 20-year-old Gabriela Gonzales and injuring two others in a wrong-way crash earlier this year. — Noah Daly, Idaho Statesman, 4 Sep. 2026