injure
verb (used with object)
to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair.
was injuring
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past progressiveof injure.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“This was kind of an endurance injury. . . . The upper pitch counts, I guess that’s when I was injuring myself, because nothing else made sense,” Scherzer said.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 14, 2019
He felt that NRA was injuring the small businessman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Recently finding that bus competition was injuring the State Railways, the President was prompted to issue a characteristic decree.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her only consolation lay in the thought that he was injuring himself by his behaviour.
From Burning Sands by Arthur Weigal
I’m sure I didn’t know that I was injuring you by telling him, and even if I had known, I should still have told him—there’s nothing like being frank, is there?
From The Late Tenant by Louis Tracy
