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Grammar : Adj |
Spell : dam-i-jing |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdæm ɪ dʒɪŋ |
Definition of damaging
Origin :- early 14c., from Old French damagier, from damage (see damage (n.)). Related: Damaged; damaging.
- adj hurtful to reputation
- I would be a fool to go among them and receive some damaging blow.
- Extract from : « The Middle Class Gentleman » by Moliere
- That's abominable of you, Socrates; you take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument.
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- So his setting was not merely inharmonious; it was damaging.
- Extract from : « Dr. Sevier » by George W. Cable
- Oh, Annesley Beecher, can you not see how you are damaging your own cause?
- Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever
- He felt as though he had been entrapped into a damaging exposure.
- Extract from : « The Point Of Honor » by Joseph Conrad
- Might not the most damaging losses be expected to flow from such trials?
- Extract from : « The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) » by Henry Martyn Baird
- Governor Tod is damaging the old regiments by injudicious promotions.
- Extract from : « The Citizen-Soldier » by John Beatty
- I become communist or egotist, as is most convenient to the speaker and most damaging to myself.
- Extract from : « We Two » by Edna Lyall
- Some of them thought he had a few good ideas, but was damaging his own case by extremism.
- Extract from : « Space Viking » by Henry Beam Piper
- They could not use the ray on the car, for fear of damaging the machinery.
- Extract from : « The Black Star Passes » by John W Campbell
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