damaging

damaging

English

Etymology

damage +‎ -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdæmɪd͡ʒɪŋ/

Verb

damaging

1. present participle of damage

Adjective

damaging (comparative more damaging, superlative most damaging)

1. Harmful; injurious; causing damage.
   • 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.

   The politician resigned after damaging information was revealed.

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.