1
as in damages
to cause bodily damage to
injured himself while skiing
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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
Automobility directly or indirectly causes one in 34 deaths annually, injures more than 100 million people a year, and has killed as many people as the two World Wars combined.
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Henrietta Moore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
If a dog that has not been officially declared dangerous severely injures or kills a person when unprovoked, authorities may confiscate the dog, and the dog’s owner is liable for the incident.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
This is an inflammatory condition in which swelling injures the optic nerve, disrupting the transmission of visual information from the eye to the brain.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
One speaker there who expressed support for trans athletes in girls' sports suggested that McNabb's injury shouldn't be used to justify banning males from girls' volleyball, and that any female athlete who injures an opponent should also be banned in that case.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2025
One fourth of the way into the movie, while the men are separated, one of them injures his hands.
—Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for injures
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These instructions help turn off the harmful protein that damages brain cells.—
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Every departure damages a team’s ability to deliver value to customers.—
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Deadly holiday weekend mars broad crime drop The back-and-forth followed a Labor Day weekend of deadly violence in Chicago worse than in the previous two years, with seven people shot to death, according to preliminary Chicago Police Department reports.—
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Valuing a project at cost of production rather than value in an arm’s length sale—common in all economic statistics—especially mars Chinese data.—
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Set against Mumbai’s relentless pulse, their delicate connection faces tests as personal histories, desires, and wounds resurface.—
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No policy wounds Tibetan dignity more profoundly than attempts to co-opt its spiritual and institutional heart.—
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Perhaps surprisingly, Rose says that losing in chess hurts a little more than failing to win on the basketball court used to.—
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Actually, her back hurts really bad.—
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This inefficiency is invisible during small-scale development tests but completely cripples an application’s performance under the heavy load of a real production environment.—
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An ongoing alien siege cripples the world’s militaries, infrastructure, and communication centers but Will can run Premiere Pro, FaceTime, WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and remote control a Tesla all at the same time.—
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Over the longer term, forecasters will watch whether the vortex remains stable or weakens later this fall.—
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This special assurance for a specific competitor weakens competition.—
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The amendment should define specific criteria for incapacity, including mental illness, cognitive decline, substance abuse, or any condition that substantially impairs judgment or decision-making capacity.—
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If rain severely impairs your vision, pull over and wait for conditions to improve.—
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“Injures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/injures. Accessed 27 Sep. 2025.
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