damaging

comparative more damaging · superlative most damaging

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.

   2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1

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   Heatwaves are especially damaging to children, as they are less able to regulate their body temperature compared to adults, the statement said, adding that the more heatwaves children are exposed to, the greater the chance of health problems including chronic respiratory conditions, asthma, and cardiovascular diseases.

   2022 October 26, “Over two million Cambodian children exposed to constant heatwaves, says Unicef”, in The Star

   Synonyms: harmful, deleterious, detrimental, hurtful, inimical, injurious, mischievous, nocent · Antonyms: beneficial, undamaging

plural damagings

1. gerundgerund 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.

   1855, Charles Dickens, Household Words

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of damage