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
California law already criminalizes unsafe gun storage in certain situations, including when a child accesses a firearm and injures or kills someone.
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Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
In self-defense, Franck's group injures one of the attackers.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Nov. 2025
If an animal injures a human or another animal, or has been declared dangerous elsewhere, it can be ordered removed from the city.
—Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Derek gravely injures his hand.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
Gafford injures ankle The Mavericks are likely to be without one of their major frontcourt pieces this preseason.
—Christian Clark, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for injures
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For people with celiac disease, gluten triggers an autoimmune response that damages the small intestine.—
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Scientists think that chronic inflammation damages the brain and increases the risk of dementia.—
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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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What once killed campaigns now barely wounds them.—
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Even with all of them in place, Shirley misses the masked attacker sneaking his way up to the apartment door, and Lamb’s attempt to blind him with bleach creates a chaotic struggle that wounds the assailant without containing him.—
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In seismic papers, Borjas’s research described the drawbacks of immigration, including his oft-cited, though much-disputed, findings that the arrival of lower-skilled immigrants hurts American workers who compete for jobs, especially poor people and African Americans.—
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That one still hurts a little bit.—
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These pressures could produce a tsunami that fractures the state’s fiscal foundation, self-inflicts a crisis ultimately demanding drastic cuts, and cripples its competitiveness.—
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Scarface and friends attack the lab, and break out the kryptonite that cripples El and Kali.—
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An overreliance on tools weakens our civilization (and saps the film’s dramatic thrills).—
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Ignoring this reality weakens any serious climate plan.—
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Russia’s second front The most dangerous front in Europe this year will shift from the trenches in Donetsk to the hybrid war between Russia and NATO as Vladimir Putin seeks to erode European support for Ukraine before economic strain impairs his ability to prosecute the hot war.—
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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 13 Jan. 2026.
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