damaging

damage +‎ -ing

• IPA^(key): /ˈdæmɪdʒɪŋ/

damaging

1. present participle of damage

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.

• See also Thesaurus:harmful

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

damaging (plural damagings)

1. An act of causing damage.
   • Charles Dickens

     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.