damaging
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- damagingly adverb
- nondamaging adjective
- nondamagingly adverb
- undamaging adjective
Etymology
Origin of damaging
Example Sentences
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He has survived multiple damaging scandals and found his way back to power every time, like a wily Renaissance courtier or an unkillable horror-movie villain, and may well survive this one.
From Salon
Epirus’s systems are designed to take down drones at close range, without damaging anything or anyone else around them.
She believes that when creators put out content that isn't real it can be "damaging for their career" as their audience "won't know what to believe anymore".
From BBC
But during a test in August, a mechanical issue caused a nail to be sucked into the aircraft’s intake, damaging the engine, according to people familiar with the matter.
"It was incredibly terrifying and incredibly traumatic and damaging," she says.
From BBC
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