damaging
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damaging
- /ˈdæmɪd͡ʒɪŋ/ UK
adjective more damaging · most damaging
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Causing damage; harmful, injurious.
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.
Similar: harmful, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, hurtful, inimical, injurious, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, noxious, noisome · Opposite: beneficial, undamaging
noun damagings
- gerund of damage: an act of causing damage. 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.
verb
- present participle and gerund of damage
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: detrimental, harmful, destructive, negative, prejudicial, prejudicious, injurious, hurtful, deleterious, harm, noxious, devastating, pernicious, painful, disastrous, hurting
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adj causing damage — see also harmful, injurious
| Español | dañino, dañoso |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 有害な yūgai na |
| हिन्दी | हानिकारक hānikārak, अपकारी apkārī, अहितकर ahitkar, घातक ghātak |
| Português | nocivo, danoso, lesivo |
| Italiano | dannoso, lesivo |
| Română | dăunător |
| Русский | поврежда́ющий povreždájuščij, вредоно́сный vredonósnyj, вре́дный vrédnyj, разруши́тельный razrušítelʹnyj |
| עברית | מזיק mazyq, מזיקה meziqa |
Talk about this word "damaging." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/damaging. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. damaging. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/damaging "damaging." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/damaging.Cite this
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