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Examples of damaging in a Sentence
the damaging effects of the sun on your skin
The storm may produce damaging winds.
He says he has damaging information about the candidate.
The evidence was very damaging to their case.
Recent Examples of damaging from the Web
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Abbott has praised the local and federal response to Hurricane Harvey, which has swept through the coast with damaging winds and life-threatening floods.
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On Thursday, Texas escalated its readiness level for the storm, saying that even as a tropical depression, Harvey posed a threat of imminent disaster, including severe flooding, storm surge and damaging winds, in at least 30 counties.
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According to the Times report, Rob Goldstone, a publicist and former British tabloid reporter, sent Trump Jr. an email on June 3 that described the Russian government as the source of the potentially damaging information regarding Hillary Clinton.
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Severe weather bypassed the Chicago area, with large hail and damaging winds staying to the north and west.
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Severe storms are expected to sweep the Kansas City area Wednesday afternoon and evening, bringing the chance of damaging winds and frequent lightning.
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A few storms could reach severe limits with damaging winds and heavy rainfall as the primary concerns.
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But to imply that the show is politically damaging for that unproven fact is just as doltish as certain Harry Potter fans sorting political figures into Hogwarts houses.
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For Algonquin, the swiftly rising Fox River hearkened back to memories of damaging flooding in 2013, according to village President John Schmitt.
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First Known Use of damaging
circa 1828
damaging Synonyms
Synonyms
adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, harmful, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, evil, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, wickedAntonyms
anodyne, benign, harmless, hurtless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, safeRelated Words
hostile, inimical, unfriendly; contagious, deadly, infectious, infective, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomous; insidious, menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening; hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, parlous, perilous, risky, unsafe, unsound; nasty, noisome, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome; destructive, fatal, killer, lethal, malignant, ruinousNear Antonyms
advantageous, beneficial, useful; favorable, good, propitious; curative, healthful, healthy, helpful, palliative, remedial, salubrious, salutary, wholesome; secure, sound; benignant; noncorrosive, nondestructive, nonfatal, noninfectious, nonlethal, nonpoisonous, nonpolluting, nontoxic, nonvenomousDAMAGING Defined for English Language Learners
damaging
adjective
Definition of damaging for English Language Learners
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: causing or able to cause damage
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