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 strikes hit 12 locations across Kyiv’s Darnytskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Solomianskyi districts, damaging residential buildings, a medical facility and an educational institution.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Oracle, for its part, argues that Project Jupiter will create massive investment for the region without damaging the environment.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of damaging
Verb
  • The task is to match instruments to problems and restore financial stability to its proper place in the Fed’s framework, without unnecessarily impairing the capital formation on which America’s long-run competitiveness may depend.
    — Joao Gomes, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
  • At the same time sweeping farm loan waivers have been criticized for impairing credit discipline, draining the public exchequer, and discouraging lending.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of impairing
Verb
  • Sets with unbreakable backboards and breakaway rims are the best type for children because breakable boards and rigid rims can lead to the little ones hurting their fingers.
    — BestReviews, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Of course, there aren’t a lot of people alive who saw Wheat play, probably hurting him in the voting.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of hurting
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  • The concerns that led to the committee being created 44 years ago – fears about krill fishing harming krill-dependent Antarctic wildlife – have not diminished over the decades.
    — Kim S. Bernard, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Meanwhile, local and federal authorities have launched antitrust probes to investigate how Compass may be harming real estate markets.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of harming
Verb
  • Scott Quigley, then embedded with the Middlesex DA’s office, crashed his cruiser into a wheelchair van in December 2023, injuring a man inside who died at the hospital a month later.
    — Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald, 25 Aug. 2026
  • In 2021, a teen was arrested after wounding two students and injuring two others in a shooting at a high school in Newport News, Virginia.
    — Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of injuring
Verb
  • This is a sign that internal parts like your clutch or transmission bands are wearing out.
    — Michael Kurko, USA Today, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Others share stories of donut tires wearing out quickly or making their vehicles feel unstable at highway speeds.
    — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of wearing out
Verb
  • Physicists used Wilson’s calculations to justify the previously murky mechanics of quantum field theory, which treats each particle as a wave while washing out the less significant effects of the smallest vibrations.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Rain postponed the start of play, washing out the entire morning session and much of the second.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of washing out
Verb
  • Senior technology executive and business coach Leah Farmer points out that burnout isn’t always caused by overwork, and that effort without agency can be exhausting too.
    — Barnaby Lashbrooke, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • After exhausting all options, including selling their car and moving in with a relative, Esma makes the painful decision to wed Zara for the dowry.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of exhausting
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