injures

verb

present tense third-person singular of injure
1
as in damages
to cause bodily damage to injured himself while skiing

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2
as in mars
to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of the agent's treachery has injured our national security for years to come

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Recent Examples of injures In self-defense, Franck's group injures one of the attackers. — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Nov. 2025 In her desperation to ask Val for a job on the new sitcom, Sharon falls and injures herself. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2026 Who is responsible when a robot breaks something or injures someone? — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2026 Early on in the clip, Jake Johnson’s former tennis star Dusty Boyd trips over the net and injures his wrist in a bad way. — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 23 June 2026 Bystander videos, like the ones taken of Pretti, have played a key role for decades in informing the public when law enforcement kills or injures people. — Ava Berger, NPR, 28 Jan. 2026 California law already criminalizes unsafe gun storage in certain situations, including when a child accesses a firearm and injures or kills someone. — Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025 Pool drain seriously injures girl Paloma Quatrini was just days away from her fourth birthday when the accident happened at an upscale resort in Mexico. — Meghan Schiller, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026 This storyline later appeared in the second season of Girls, as Dunham’s character Hannah is overwhelmed with the anxiety of writing a novel and similarly injures herself. — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 14 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for injures
  1. damages
  2. mars
  3. wounds
  4. hurts
  5. cripples
  6. weakens
  7. impairs
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  • Most notably, those who switched faced a 24% higher risk of developing diabetic retinopathy, a condition that damages the blood vessels in the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2026
  • Your Eyes High blood pressure also damages the sensitive back lining of the eye called the retina.
    — Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 23 June 2026
Definition of damages
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  • Jacob Whitehead Homophobic chant mars Mexico’s win Before the World Cup, the Mexican football federation launched a campaign that featured the heroes of the country’s 1986 World Cup side.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • No sadness mars the purity of its paranoia.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
Definition of mars
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  • Chops, gouges, wounds it like the shadow grooves on the sidewalks—the sun is setting earlier.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Imperfect fleshly reality occupies the stage, the region where bones crack and wounds suppurate, schlumpy humans fall for each other, and jealousy roams murderously free.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026
Definition of wounds
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  • Advertisement Losing your leading World Cup goalscorer hurts, especially against a Belgian side that, despite its shaky moments at this tournament, is still stocked with talent.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 2 July 2026
  • The practice is anti-competitive and hurts consumers, antitrust experts say.
    — Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
Definition of hurts
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  • Federal illegality further cripples operations with banking and tax burdens.
    — Peter Su, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • In the final version of the film, Furiosa captures Dementus, cripples him, brings him back to the Citadel.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026
Definition of cripples
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  • When the dollar weakens, commodity prices expressed in dollars tend to rise to maintain purchasing power parity for buyers operating in other currencies.
    — Jason Kirsch, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • But the corresponding upheaval is still catastrophic for any surrounding planets, which either get swallowed up by the expanding star, or drift into wider orbits as the star’s gravity weakens—some are flung out from the system entirely.
    — Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 1 July 2026
Definition of weakens
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  • The chronic disease, which impairs the body’s ability to properly regulate blood sugar, contributed to 94,445 deaths that year.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
  • But the complaint argues CMS has not explained why community healthcare providers are equipped to evaluate whether a patient’s condition significantly impairs their ability to comply with work requirements.
    — Michelle Mbekeani, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of impairs

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