damaging

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury

   damaging to career and reputation

2. 2
   adj

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   gerund 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.

4. 4
   adj

   designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions

5. 5
   verb

   present participle and gerund of damage

Etymology

From damage + -ing.