invaliding

verb

present participle of invalid
as in damaging

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for invaliding
  1. damaging
  2. impairing
  3. hurting
  4. harming
  5. injuring
  6. wearing out
  7. washing out
  8. exhausting
Verb
  • The alternative, digging it up, risks damaging cultural sites.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
  • The effect has been especially damaging on corals, oysters, and free-swimming snails and slugs.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 July 2026
Definition of damaging
Verb
  • That match carries a 70% probability of performance-impairing heat.
    — Carlos Roa, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 June 2026
  • The death was classified as natural, with the pathologist noting that long-term alcohol use can increase the risk of aspiration pneumonia by impairing several of the body's protective reflexes and immune functions.
    — Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026
Definition of impairing
Verb
  • Paul’s words have proven prescient during the first few days of Wimbledon, where players losing their footing and either hurting themselves or not is as perennial as the strawberries and cream.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 3 July 2026
  • Running Footwear Sector Paces Up Indeed, many major footwear brands have spent recent years clearing excess inventory through heavy discounting, hurting margins and diluting brand equity.
    — Mark Faithfull, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of hurting
Verb
  • Fortunately, some companies are realizing that hoarding data is actually harming their growth.
    — Raj Ananthanpillai, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • Reforming the review process is paradoxically essential to avoiding actually massively harming our environment and climate.
    — James Ferguson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2026
Definition of harming
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of injuring
Verb
  • Banging, rattling, grinding, squealing, or buzzing noises often indicate that something inside the system is loose, damaged, or wearing out.
    — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 29 June 2026
  • The chiptune soundtrack is energetic without wearing out its welcome, and the writing keeps things light with short diary entries and snarky bits of dialogue.
    — Jason Bennett, Arkansas Online, 28 June 2026
Definition of wearing out
Verb
  • Then came this spring’s historic and devastating floods across northern Michigan — in some areas, for the first time anyone can remember — swamping homes, pushing dams to the brink of failure and washing out roadways.
    — Tammy Webber, Fortune, 23 June 2026
  • Then came this spring's historic and devastating floods across northern Michigan — in some areas, for the first time anyone can remember — swamping homes, pushing dams to the brink of failure and washing out roadways.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 22 June 2026
Definition of washing out
Verb
  • The two young women at the center of the chamber piece that is Fruit Gathering face more challenges than hard work in a monotonous environment, including exhausting work, economic uncertainty and social repression.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2026
  • This convergence is a very encouraging sign, providing the first footprint of a structural trend change and indicating that the selling pressure from the recent rug pull is finally exhausting itself.
    — Nishant Pant, CNBC, 7 July 2026
Definition of exhausting
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