banged up

past tense of bang up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for banged up
Verb
  • My actions have hurt innocent people.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Too many reminders can come across as pushy and hurt your chances.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Reportedly, 3 lakh acres of farmlands have been damaged and according to the Punjab state government half a million people across 23 districts have been affected by floods.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre will return to its home base, the Warwick Theatre, next week for its first production there since a fire badly damaged the historic venue 19 months ago.
    Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Buckeyes benefited from a pair of penalties, including a face mask call on Colin Simmons that wiped out an incomplete pass on third-and-4.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The Buckeyes benefitted from a pair of penalties, including a face-mask call on Colin Simmons that wiped out an incomplete pass on third-and-4.
    Joe Reedy, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • When the flagellum is malformed or its movement is impaired, the sperm cannot travel efficiently, leading to male infertility.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In this study, feeding mice a HFD for four days impaired that glucose availability in the brain, causing CCK interneurons to ramp up their firing.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • No human journalist was harmed in this experiment.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The inquest heard that the unit where Ruth had been was regularly understaffed, adding that on the day the teenager harmed herself, 50 percent of the workers were agency staff, Sky News reported, noting that Ruth was also not prevented from accessing harmful content online.
    Becca Longmire, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Getty Images The nascent campaign has already shattered the record for philanthropic money raised in support of hosting an Olympic and Paralympic Games.
    Blythe Lawrence, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • When your industry is being shattered by greed?
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The disruptions come amid a WNBA season in which multiple games were marred by the objects making appearances on the court.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Each death was devastating to relatives and friends left behind, and the first decades of the twentieth century were marred by individual grief on a global scale.
    Alice Vernon September 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The tall, steep mountains that rise to 6,000 feet in elevation in the Grandfather District saw triple digit winds and some of the heaviest rainfall of the storm with hundreds of miles of trail and road destroyed.
    Graham Averill, Outside, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Alshon cruised past Johnson 3,7 in a surprise, while Garnett destroyed Haworth 4,1 to set up a very solid final.
    Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Banged up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/banged%20up. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.

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