Definition: 1. (sometimes followed by 'to') causing harm or injury. 2. Designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions.
Use 'damaging' in a sentence:
1. Feelings of guilt associated with emotions are more devastating and damaging than the experience of emotion itself.
2. The second hypothesis seems unlikely because large pterosaurs could not have landed in trees without damaging their wings.
3. It may be less damaging than previously believed.
4. The division of the Roman Empire into two parts was particularly damaging for the Western Empire because it relied on the Eastern Empire for economic support.
5. These damaging frosts wouldn't happen if the wetlands were still in existence, just a tiny temperature difference can have major consequences.
6. Dubbed "the spade-hacker" by local media, the woman – who has not been named – is being investigated on suspicion of damaging public property.
7. That's an example of how stereotypes have a potentially damaging effect on people.
8. Idle chatter in the workplace or over a coffee is often viewed as a damaging habit which spreads salacious rumours and harms people's reputations.
9. Working hard is by no means equal to damaging one's health.
10. The zebra mussel from Eastern Europe is the most motorious and probably most damaging to the environment.
11. Humans have been damaging the environment for centuries by overcutting trees and farming too intensively.
12. According to authorities, he wrote that he needed money and said Letterman's world would "collapse around him" if damaging information about him were made public.
13. It was a film to train the employees in different museums in the techniques they should use for labelling ancient objects without damaging them.
14. Will parents be damaging children if they have one fewer organized activity?
15. The American Michael Fay was found guilty of damaging parked cars.
16. The president will be drawn into a damaging battle in which his credentials will be on trial.
17. A recent research shows arguments about money were especially damaging to couples.
18. Floods have become more damaging in Bangladesh in recent decades.
19. They concluded that firing him would be more damaging than keeping him on.
20. He feared that a map in the atlas could pull climate scientists into another vortex of damaging controversy.
21. They range from minor cases of deliberate damaging of things to much more serious offenses, such as car accidents involving drunk drivers or bank robberies.
22. It is not possible to reposition the rug without damaging it.
23. Intensive cultivation exposes the earth to the damaging forces of nature.
24. A hidden hazard of digitally recreating a deceased celebrity is the risk of damaging their legacy.
25. We must avoid the damaging boom-bust cycles which characterized the 1980s.
26. A simple consumption tax of, say, 5% would significantly reduce the country's huge government deficit without damaging productivity.
27. The landscape has been radically altered, severely damaging wildlife.
28. Lead is potentially damaging to children's health.
29. The broadscale cutting down of trees is damaging the environment.
30. The indiscriminate use of fertilizers is damaging to the environment.
