damaging

English

Etymology

damage +‎ -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdæmɪd͡ʒɪŋ/

Verb

damaging

1. present participle and gerund of damage

Adjective

damaging (comparative more damaging, superlative most damaging)

1. 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

• See also Thesaurus:harmful

Antonyms

• beneficial (causing benefit)
• undamaging (causing no damage)

Translations

harmful, injurious, that damages

• Azerbaijani: ziyanverici (az), zərərverici (az), ziyanlı, ziyankar, zərərli
• Catalan: perjudicial (ca)
• Finnish: vahingollinen (fi)
• Greek:

  Ancient" δηλητήριος (dēlētḗrios)

• Hebrew: מזיק m (mazyq), מזיקה f (meziqa)
• Hungarian: kártékony (hu)
• Italian: dannoso (it) m, lesivo (it) m
• Japanese: 有害な (ja) (yūgai na)
• Javanese: mbebayani
• Portuguese: nocivo (pt) m, danoso (pt) m, lesivo (pt) m
• Romanian: dăunător (ro)
• Russian: поврежда́ющий (ru) (povreždájuščij), вредоно́сный (ru) (vredonósnyj), вре́дный (ru) (vrédnyj), разруши́тельный (ru) (razrušítelʹnyj)
• Spanish: lesivo (es), dañino (es), injurioso (es)
• Tagalog: nakakapinsala

Noun

damaging (plural damagings)

1. 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.