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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
  • You can often get prequalified to get a sense of the rate and term a lender is likely to approve you for, without damaging your credit score.
    — Dan Avery,Brett Holzhauer, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Zelensky said that a passenger train was also struck in the Mykolaiv region on Wednesday, damaging a railway station and a diesel locomotive.
    — Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of damaging
Verb
  • Too Much Vitamin B6 and Nerve Damage Taking high doses of B6 may cause numbness, a pins-and-needles sensation, or pain in your legs, impairing your ability to walk.
    — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Summary Quality sleep is crucial for leaders' performance, yet unpredictable schedules often lead to sleep deprivation, thus impairing vital cognitive functions like memory.
    — Julian Hayes II, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of impairing
Verb
  • In the meantime, the rising 10-year Treasury yield is making mortgages more expensive and hurting the housing industry.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Another setback was an incident in which the company mistakenly used a Japanese drum for a promotion in China, sparking backlash and hurting sales.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of hurting
Verb
  • According to the Cleveland Clinic, sepsis is a reaction to an infection that involves the immune system harming healthy tissues and organs.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Skip pruning woody plants in fall to avoid harming them; wait until late winter or spring.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of harming
Verb
  • The pilots of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 were blamed for crashing into a seawall in 2013, sending their jet cartwheeling down a runway in San Francisco, killing three people and injuring 187 others.
    — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The jet, traveling from San Juan, Puerto Rico, overshot the runway, killing five people and injuring another five.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 14 Sep. 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
  • Commanders should seek positional advantages without exhausting their soldiers, manipulate the enemy’s movements when possible, and recognize when circumstances make pursuit or attack unwise.
    — Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The dispute has become even more complicated because some members of the 2022 class pursued professional opportunities after exhausting their eligibility under the previous system.
    — Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of exhausting
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