Damaging can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| damaging - (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury; "damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant" | ||
| damaging - designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions; "negative criticism" | ||
Verb |
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| damage - inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree" | ||
| damage - suffer or be susceptible to damage; "These fine china cups damage easily" |
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| 1. | adj. | Damaging to career and reputation. | |
| 2. | adj. | Recall the multiple terror threats lobbed out by the administration whenever damaging political news appeared in the media. | |
| 3. | adj. | Environmentally damaging projects should be abandoned systematically. | |
| 4. | adj. | Accelerating climate change has caused serious impacts. Higher temperatures and extreme weather events are damaging food production, rising sea levels and more damaging storms are putting our coastal cities increasingly at risk and the impacts of climate change are already harming economies around the world, including those of the United States and China. These developments urgently require enhanced actions to tackle the challenge. | |
| 5. | adj. | This can be extremely damaging. | |
| 6. | adj. | Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. | |
| 7. | adj. | Urban sprawl is environmentally damaging. | |
| 8. | adj. | Restrictive practices can be damaging for industries. | |
| 9. | adj. | It may be objected that humans, as opposed to animals, have intelligence, and therefore have the right not to be experimented upon. However, many humans, such as the mentally disabled, those in vegetative states, or babies, either have no intelligence or limited intelligence, and yet no one is arguing they should be subjected to involuntary, damaging experiments. | |
| 10. | adj. | The researchers say this new way to recover lost images without damaging effects will help museums breathe new life into some of their oldest image collections. | |
| 11. | adj. | The tropical forests contain a half of the species in the world, so their disappearance is doubly damaging, and it is astonishing but true that our civilisation, whose imagination has reached the boundaries of the universe, does not know, to within a factor of ten, how many species the earth supports. | |
| 12. | adj. | How damaging to a company is bad publicity? | |
| 13. | adj. | This is quite damaging. | |
| 14. | adj. | The drought this year was very damaging for rural areas. | |
| 15. | adj. | Although HFCs are much less damaging to the ozone layer than CFCs, they harm the planet in a different way. | |
| 16. | verb | im not worried about damaging the surface my tank is on because i can prop it up off the surface anyway. | |
| 17. | verb | Pollution is damaging our earth. | |
| 18. | verb | He managed to avoid damaging my reputation by dropping a hint. | |
| 19. | verb | Someone smashed into the back of Tom's car while he was towing his trailer, writing off the trailer and damaging the car. | |
| 20. | verb | Tom is damaging his reputation. | |
| 21. | verb | The contagion is damaging the Italian economy and its important tourism industry. | |
| 22. | verb | Algeria should stop damaging its environment. | |
| 23. | verb | Tom tried to crack a walnut without damaging its kernel. | |
| 24. | verb | Tom was trying to crack a walnut without damaging its kernel. | |
| 25. | verb | Tom made an effort to crack a walnut without damaging its kernel. | |
| 26. | verb | Tom was making an effort to crack a walnut without damaging its kernel. | |
| 27. | verb | These fine china cups damage easily. | |
| 28. | verb | Smoking does damage your lungs. | |
| 29. | verb | It will damage the crops. | |
| 30. | verb | In my daily life I take care in various ways of my body so as not to damage my health. | |
| 31. | noun | How much is the damage? |
| Sentence | |
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| adj. | |
| Damaging to career and reputation. |
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| Recall the multiple terror threats lobbed out by the administration whenever damaging political news appeared in the media. |
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| Environmentally damaging projects should be abandoned systematically. | |
| Accelerating climate change has caused serious impacts. Higher temperatures and extreme weather events are damaging food production, rising sea levels and more damaging storms are putting our coastal cities increasingly at risk and the impacts of climate change are already harming economies around the world, including those of the United States and China. These developments urgently require enhanced actions to tackle the challenge. | |
| This can be extremely damaging. | |
| Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. | |
| Urban sprawl is environmentally damaging. | |
| Restrictive practices can be damaging for industries. | |
| It may be objected that humans, as opposed to animals, have intelligence, and therefore have the right not to be experimented upon. However, many humans, such as the mentally disabled, those in vegetative states, or babies, either have no intelligence or limited intelligence, and yet no one is arguing they should be subjected to involuntary, damaging experiments. | |
| The researchers say this new way to recover lost images without damaging effects will help museums breathe new life into some of their oldest image collections. | |
| The tropical forests contain a half of the species in the world, so their disappearance is doubly damaging, and it is astonishing but true that our civilisation, whose imagination has reached the boundaries of the universe, does not know, to within a factor of ten, how many species the earth supports. | |
| How damaging to a company is bad publicity? | |
| This is quite damaging. | |
| The drought this year was very damaging for rural areas. | |
| Although HFCs are much less damaging to the ozone layer than CFCs, they harm the planet in a different way. | |
| verb | |
| im not worried about damaging the surface my tank is on because i can prop it up off the surface anyway. |
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| Pollution is damaging our earth. | |
| He managed to avoid damaging my reputation by dropping a hint. | |
| Someone smashed into the back of Tom's car while he was towing his trailer, writing off the trailer and damaging the car. | |
| Tom is damaging his reputation. | |
| The contagion is damaging the Italian economy and its important tourism industry. | |
| Algeria should stop damaging its environment. | |
| Tom tried to crack a walnut without damaging its kernel. | |
| Tom was trying to crack a walnut without damaging its kernel. | |
| Tom made an effort to crack a walnut without damaging its kernel. | |
| Tom was making an effort to crack a walnut without damaging its kernel. | |
| These fine china cups damage easily. |
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| Smoking does damage your lungs. | |
| It will damage the crops. | |
| In my daily life I take care in various ways of my body so as not to damage my health. | |
| noun | |
| How much is the damage? |
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