INVALIDS Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

invalids

verb

present tense third-person singular of invalid

as in damages

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Similarly, if a house fire damages your HVAC equipment, replacement costs are generally included as part of your dwelling coverage.

— Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 30 July 2026
This only damages your credibility more than the original mistake.

— Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of damages

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Those competitors offer multi-user discounts, so LiveOne's omission of a family plan hurts it a bit more now that its individual rates have crept up.

— Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 28 July 2026
Some say moving a historic building from its original or longtime location hurts its integrity by removing it from its historic and physical context.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026

Definition of hurts

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The independent authors concluded that the state should funnel more money toward voluntary services, especially after hearing about the coercion and harms that people experienced under AOT orders.

— O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 4 Aug. 2026
According to their study, these thin-film solar cells held onto over 90 percent of their original efficiency after being exposed to a harsh reverse bias of minus 40 volts, which usually harms standard thin-film solar cells.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 21 July 2026

Definition of harms

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Hwang suffered a traumatic brain injury from the attack, leading to ataxia, a neurological disorder that impairs movement and muscle control, and occasional seizures.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026
Punishment should be reserved for the guilty, not the sick, and postpartum psychosis, by definition, impairs a mother’s ability to process reality.

— Uruj Kamal Haider, Time, 21 July 2026

Definition of impairs

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That’s because even ordinary winds – and far worse, storms and earthquakes – cause tall buildings to sway, which ruins people’s concentration, wrecks their mood, and even exhausts them.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 July 2026
Watching this scene, and much of the film, exhausts me.

— Jenny Odell, Longreads, 2 June 2026

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