- present participle of damage.
damaging
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Oil spills can cause immediate deaths of marine animals and other organisms, for example by physically trapping turtles, smothering the feathers of seabirds or damaging the gills of fish.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
“With weakness seen across the full spectrum of income, age and gender demographic groups, these are damaging findings given the U.K. government’s priority of economic growth,” Bellamy said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Corals are heat sensitive and particularly vulnerable to human-driven climate change, which is warming the world's oceans and increasing the frequency and intensity of damaging bleaching events.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have now identified a promising strategy for interrupting this damaging immune response.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Consider the farmer who sprays his fields with insecticide to kill the bugs that are damaging his crops.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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