damaging
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
damaging
- present participle and gerund of damage
Adjective[edit]
damaging (comparative more damaging, superlative most damaging)
- Harmful; injurious; causing damage.
- The politician resigned after damaging information was revealed.
- 2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:
- One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools […] as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:harmful
Antonyms[edit]
- beneficial (causing benefit)
- undamaging (causing no damage)
Translations[edit]
harmful, injurious, that damages
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Noun[edit]
damaging (plural damagings)
- An act of causing damage.
- 1855, Charles Dickens, Household Words:
- That immortal creature had gone over the proofs with great pains — had of course taken out the stiflings — hard-plungings, lungeings, and other convulsions — and had also taken out her weakenings and damagings of her own effects.