Definitions for damaging

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damaging dam·ag·ing

Spelling: [dam-i-jing]

IPA: /ˈdæm ɪ dʒɪŋ/

Damaging is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 173 anagrams from letters in damaging (aadggimn).

Definitions for damaging

noun

1. injury or harm that reduces value or usefulness:
2. damages, Law. the estimated money equivalent for detriment or injury sustained.
3. Often, damages. Informal. cost; expense; charge:

adjective

1. causing or capable of causing damages; harmful; injurious.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause damage to; injure or harm; reduce the value or usefulness of:

verb (used without object)

1. to become damaged:

Origin of damaging

First recorded in 1850-55; damage + -ing²

Examples for damaging

That's abominable of you, Socrates; you take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument.

He felt as though he had been entrapped into a damaging exposure.

If Republicans blow it and fail to pass significant legislation, that will be a huge lost opportunity and damaging for 2016.

Oh, Annesley Beecher, can you not see how you are damaging your own cause?

It is the steady accretion of detail that may yet be the most damaging factor in the battle for British hearts and minds.

So his setting was not merely inharmonious; it was damaging.

I would be a fool to go among them and receive some damaging blow.

He lambasts the case as without evidence, an unfair trial, and damaging for the American reputation.

In 2006 then-Senator Barack Obama understood how damaging illegal immigration is for the working people of this country.

Equally as damaging is the notion that those not preparing to protest the verdict must be armed for protection.