damaging

damage +‎ -ing

• IPA^(key): /ˈdæmɪd͡ʒɪŋ/

damaging

1. present participle and gerund of damage

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.

• See also Thesaurus:harmful

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

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.