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Damaging   /dˈæmɪdʒɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Damage  v. t.  (past & past part. damaged; pres. part. damaging)  To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair. "He... came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship."


Damage  v. i.  To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soundness or value; as, some colors in cloth damage in sunlight.


adjective
damaging  adj.  
1.
Causing harm or injury; as, damaging to career and reputation.
Synonyms: detrimental, detrimental to(predicate), prejudicial, prejudicious.
2.
Designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions.
Synonyms: negative.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Damaging" Quotes from Famous Books



... stopped at a terrible violet and screamed—no, she didn't. She didn't scream anything; for she was choking for breath. But she did pulverize that piece of ginger cake; and she looked at Stoffel and his mother in a manner that would have been most damaging for her if those two persons had happened ...
— Walter Pieterse - A Story of Holland • Multatuli
... stood visibly on his guard—an attitude assumed by all wise officials when they find themselves brought face to face with a newspaper man; for they know, however carefully an article may be prepared, it will likely contain some unfortunate overlooked phrase which may have a damaging effect in ...
— From Whose Bourne • Robert Barr
... to the people in Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt, where a similar scale was damaging the fig trees and other valuable plants, and the result was again the same, the injurious insects were destroyed. This was achieved only after extensive correspondence and several failures. The active agent in Alexandria was Rear Admiral Blomfield, of the British Royal Navy, a man apparently ...
— Little Masterpieces of Science: - The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer • Various
... American vessels: in thirty minutes the "Guerriere" was taken; and the "Constitution" returned in triumph to Boston. The effects of this brilliant victory were immediately felt: New England shared in it; British naval prestige had received a damaging blow; and the Navy Department could no longer hope to keep the navy at home for police duty. Meantime the sloop-of-war "Wasp" had captured the British brig "Frolic" of equal force; and Decatur, in the frigate "United States", on October 25 took the British frigate "Macedonian". ...
— Formation of the Union • Albert Bushnell Hart
... Chanden Sing. He was accused of having taken his master into Tibet. He was questioned as to this, and also as to the maps and sketches found with Mr. Landor's things. I may mention that when the arrests were made the Tibetans took all of Mr. Landor's property, which they handled very roughly, damaging most of the things. Hearing the Tibetans accuse the bearer, Mr. Landor called out that his servant was in no way responsible for his having entered Tibet. Thereupon a Lama struck him (Mr. Landor) a blow on the head with the butt-end of his riding-whip. ...
— In the Forbidden Land • Arnold Henry Savage Landor


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