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

In the early hours of New Year's Day, a fire tore through a bar in the Swiss ski resort town of Crans-Montana, killing about 40 people and injuring more than 100. — ABC News, 13 July 2026

Jakarta, Indonesia — A pickup truck carrying wedding guests was crushed between two trucks on a busy highway on Indonesia's main island of Java, killing 13 people and injuring five others, police said Monday. — CBS News, 13 July 2026

Scooter riders are hitting and injuring pedestrians, so for the sake of safety, their speeds should be lowered, if not banned. — Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2026

On Sunday, Russia bombarded Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv with dozens of missiles and hundreds of strike drones, killing at least 11 and injuring scores more, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and media reports. — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 7 July 2026

Macron and Syrian President Ahmed al Sharaa addressed the matter in a joint press conference after two bomb blasts went off by the hotel where the French president spent the night, injuring at least 18 people. — Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 7 July 2026

The overnight attack comes just days after Russia launched a deadly assault on Kyiv in the early hours of Thursday morning, killing at least 31 people and injuring more than 80. — Tiago Ventura, Time, 6 July 2026

Tim Clayton / Getty Images Serena Williams withdrew from the Wimbledon doubles competition after injuring her knee earlier this week. — Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 5 July 2026

The boat had just refueled on the water outside of a seafood restaurant, Schaefer's Canal House, when the blast occurred, injuring seven people on the boat and two workers on a nearby dock. — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 5 July 2026