Damaging

Definitions: Damaging

Damaging

Adjective

1. (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury; "damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant".

2. Designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions; "negative criticism".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "damaging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)

Synonyms: Damaging

Crosswords: Damaging

But, in order to keep from damaging the eye sockets, they've got to go in through the rectum. (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft)

Mr. Deeds, there has been a great deal of damaging testimony against you. Your behavior, to say the least, has been most strange. (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin)

Ginger's very damaging to us. (Gilligan's Island; writing credit: Ivani Ribeiro)

I was in the water closet of the Bournemouth express when it quite unaccountably exploded, thereby extensively damaging the rest of the train. (The Wrong Box; writing credit: Larry Gelbart; Lloyd Osbourne)

Information of a damaging nature. (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Access to the American Mind: The Damaging Impact of the New Mass Media (reference)

• Management of Damaging Traffic Queues (reference)

• Methods for Detecting DNA Damaging Agents in Humans: Applications in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention (Iarc Scientific Publications, No 89) (reference)

• Psychosurgery: Damaging the Brain to Save the Mind (reference)

• The Antioxidant Save-Your-Life Cookbook: 150 Nutritious and Delicious High-Fiber, Low-Fat Recipes to Protect Yourself Against the Damaging Effects of Free Radicals (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

The damaging effects of a hemorrhage are related to lesion location. (references)

Long-term methamphetamine abuse results in many damaging effects, including addiction. (references)

Enzymes like superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase can disarm the damaging oxygen molecules. (references)

Business

Typhoons and heavy rainfall are the most damaging natural disasters and occur between June and September. (references)

And finally, one cannot disparage the competition with untrue and damaging comments; even truthful criticism of competition may be illegal if there is no adequate justification for the extent of the criticism. (references)

Children

Malawi

While rites to initiate girls into their future adult roles still are secret, information suggests that abusive practices are widespread and quite damaging. (references)

Canada

Changes to the law in 1997 strengthened tools to combat child prostitution and prohibited female genital mutilation, which is condemned widely by international health experts as damaging to both physical and psychological health. (references)

Civil Liberties

Egypt

Police detained 22 demonstrators on suspicion of illegal public assembly and damaging public property. (references)

Economic History

Bahrain

The construction of the causeway also reportedly penetrated the bedrock, further damaging the aquifer. (references)

Sri Lanka

Highly publicized efforts to investigate bribery and corruption in recent years have failed miserably, damaging public confidence in such processes. (references)

Tanzania

Equally damaging was the Tanzanian government's rationing of foreign exchange in favor of public enterprises while maintaining an overvalued currency. (references)

Human Rights

Philippines

The agent allegedly possessed information damaging to former President Estrada in connection with his impeachment. (references)

Zambia

Tembo's testimony was expected to be highly damaging to the government ministers being investigated and, by extension, the President. (references)

Bangladesh

Approximately 40 persons, mostly Awami League student activists, staged violent demonstrations, ransacking shops and damaging vehicles. (references)

Indigenous People

Canada

The nonaborignal fishermen sparked violence by cutting Burnt Church lobster trap lines and damaging aboriginal property. (references)

Minorities

Bosnia and Herzegovina

On January 16, in Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia, an explosion destroyed the car of a Bosniak returnee, damaging a nearby vehicle and shattering several windows. (references)

Political Economy

UNITED KINGDOM

The indirect effects of the foot and mouth outbreak could prove more damaging in the tourism sector, which accounts for 4.0 percent of GDP. (references)

Political Rights

Djibouti

On December 13, 2000, the magistrate in charge of the investigation charged the 13 with conspiracy and breach of state security and cited them with calling on citizens to take up arms illegally, carrying and making use of weapons of war, and damaging public property. (references)

Women

Benin

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is condemned widely by international health experts as damaging to both physical and psychological health. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

FGM, which is condemned widely by international health experts as damaging to both physical and psychological health, is a serious problem. (references)

Worker Rights

Romania

Groups of union members protested against local authorities by damaging official buildings and harassing employees of the firm. (references)

Mozambique

For children between 15 and 18 years of age, the employer is required to provide for their education and professional training and to ensure conditions of work that are not damaging to their physical and moral development. (references)

Nicaragua

The CST organized a series of work stoppages leading to the occupation of the factory in May 2000. Chentex then filed criminal charges against the nine board members for damaging property, kidnaping management personnel, and injuring security persons during the takeover. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "damaging": damaging to one's health. Additional references.

Ending with "damaging": dna-damaging, environmentally-damaging, ozone-damaging.

Arabic 

‏متلف (destructive, detrimental, injurious, noxious, ruinous, wrecking), ‏مؤذ (annoying, bad, baleful, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, injurious, maleficent, malevolent, malign, mischievous, nasty, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, unwholesome, verminous, wicked). (various references)

Chinese 

损坏 (damaged, spoilage, spoiled, spoiling, spoilt), 有害 (destructive, harmful). (various references)

Czech

kompromitující, škodlivý (bad, derogatory, detrimental, harmful, injurious, malign, nocent, noisome, noxious, obnoxious, pernicious, prejudicial). (various references)

Danish

dykkere overvaager med korte mellemrum spulegraveren for at kontrollere,at den rider rigtigt paa roerledningen,at den ikke beskadiger vaegtcoatingen,og at den graver roerledningen ned i korrekt dybde (and is sinking the line to the correct depth, divers monitor the jet sledge at frequent intervals to check that it is riding the line correctly, not damaging the weight coating), fillere skal vaere fremstillet af egnet stenmateriale og maa ikke indeholde organiske og ekspanderende bestanddele i skadeligt omfang (fillers must be prepared from suitable rock and must not contain a damaging quantity of organic materiel liable to heave/swell/). (various references)

Dutch

duikers controleren de straalslede met frequente tussenpozen om zich ervan te vergewissen dat deze zich op de juiste wijze over de leiding voortbeweegt,de verzwarende deklaag niet beschadigt en de leiding op de gewenste diepte laat zakken (and is sinking the line to the correct depth, divers monitor the jet sledge at frequent intervals to check that it is riding the line correctly, not damaging the weight coating), vulstoffen dienen uit geschikt gesteente te worden vervaardigd en mogen geen schadelijke hoeveelheden verontreinigingen bevatten,d.w.z.organisch materiaal en bestanddelen die in bepaalde omstandigheden gaan zwellen (fillers must be prepared from suitable rock and must not contain a damaging quantity of organic materiel liable to heave/swell/), het schadelijke bestanddeel is kiezelzuur in kristalvorm,dat vrijkomt tijdens het boren van schietgaten met behulp van perslucht-boorhamers (the damaging substance is silica in its crystallized form;it is liberated during the drilling of shotholes by the compressed-air percussive drills). (various references)

French

endommagement (damage), abîmé. (various references)

German

schädigend (injuring, maring), beschädigend (mauling). (various references)

Greek 

επιβλαβήσ (deleterious, detrimental, harmful, injurious, maleficent, noxious), επιζήμιοσ (detrimental, injurious, malign, prejudicial). (various references)

Indonesian

pembejatan (barming). (various references)

Italian

danneggiamento (criminal damage, damage, impairment, malicious mischief, vandalism). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� 害 (assault, violence). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かがい (assault, evil, extracurricular, harm, heavy taxation, mischief, numerically inferior force, perigone, prostitution quarter, red-light district, small military force, taxation, violence). (various references)

Korean 

손상 (Damage, Damages, impairment). (various references)

Manx

jeeillagh (paying, productive, wasteful). (various references)

Pig Latin

amagingday.(various references)

Portuguese

danoso (detrimental, hurtful). (various references)

Romanian

avariere. (various references)

Scottish

claidreach (a damaging). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

štetan (adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, inimical, injurious, maleficent, mischievous, nocuous, noisome, prejudicial). (various references)

Spanish

dañoso (cold, explosive, flammable, harmful, hurtful, inimical, injurious, mischievous, noxious), dañando, perjudicial (deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, injurious, mischievous, prejudicial, prejudicious). (various references)

Turkish

zarar verici (counterproductive, malignant, mischievous), kötü etkisi olan. (various references)

Vietnamese 

hại (deteriorative, harm, noxious), gây thiệt hại (prejudicial), có hại (deleterious, deteriorative, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, injurious). (various references)

pestifer. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "damaging": damagingly. (additional references)

Words ending with "damaging": endamaging, redamaging. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Damaging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Damajan, Domengini, Dormagen. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: aidman, gagman, gaming, magian.

-3 letters: adman, again, aging, amain, amiga, amnia, anima, dagga, daman, gamin, mania, naiad.

-4 letters: agin, agma, amia, amid, amin, anga, damn, dang, ding, gadi, gaga, gain, gama, gang, giga, magi, maid, main, mana, migg, mina, mind, nada.

-5 letters: aga, aid, aim, ain, ama, ami, ana, and, ani, dag, dam, dig, dim, din, gad, gag, gam, gan, gid, gig, gin, mad, mag, man, mid, mig, nag, nam, nim.

+2 letters: damagingly, diagraming, endamaging, redamaging.

+3 letters: diagramming.

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