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Damaging
//ˈdæmɪd͡ʒɪŋ// adj, noun, verb
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 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."
Adjective
- 1 designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions wordnet
- 2 (sometimes followed by ‘to’) causing harm or injury wordnet
Noun
- 1 gerund of damage: an act of causing damage. form-of, gerund
"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
- 1 present participle and gerund of damage form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
Etymology 1
From damage + -ing.
Etymology 2
From damage + -ing.
Etymology 3
From damage + -ing.
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