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

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military reportedly struck an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea, killing one sailor and injuring another. — Mike Sheen,kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 27 July 2026

Iran countered that one of its commercial vessels carrying a cargo of iron had been struck, killing one seafarer and injuring three others. — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 27 July 2026

Authorities have accused the suspect of driving a vehicle into a crowd and attacking people with a bladed weapon near Brandenburg Gate on Saturday night, killing a woman and injuring 29 others. — Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 26 July 2026

Bellinger exited Saturday’s 3-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies after injuring his hamstring while rounding first base in the top of the eighth. — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 26 July 2026

Authorities said a 21-year-old man — a German citizen whose family immigrated from Lebanon — drove a van into the crowd, killing one person and injuring more than 25. — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 26 July 2026

The man suspected of allegedly driving a vehicle into a crowd during Berlin's LGBTQ+ celebrations on Saturday, killing one person and injuring several others, has been killed, police said. — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 26 July 2026

On November 17, tanks smashed through the gates, injuring and killing students. — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026

In the memo, Slonim wrote that concern about the company dated back years, including a 2017 crash when a Ryder truck spilled fireworks onto a Yolo County road, injuring a truck driver. — Joe Rubin, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026