damaging

Meanings

• Adjective or Verb

  Causing harm or destruction to something or someone.

  - "The storm was damaging to the crops."
  - "His careless actions were damaging to the relationship."

• Noun

  A barrier constructed across a river or other body of water to control or divert its flow.

  - "The damaging was built in the 1920s."
  - "The damaging failed during heavy rain."

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Antonyms

beneficial , undamaging

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with damaging
damage , raging , caging , aging

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Variants

List of all variants of damaging that leads to same result
damaging , damagingly , damage , damageabilities , damageability , damaged , damager , damagers , damages

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Forms

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Damagingly, More damaging, Least damaging

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Etymology

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Originally meant 'a barrier' in Old English, later came to mean 'causing harm'.

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Trivia

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1. The word 'damaging' is derived from the Old English word 'damm,' meaning 'a barrier.'

2. Damaging can also refer to a dam in a body of water.

3. In the English language, there are no perfect homophones for 'damaging'. However, it shares the same pronunciation with 'damage' and 'damnaging', which have similar meanings.

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Related Concepts

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1. Harm: The state of being hurt or injured physically or emotionally.

2. Destruction: The act of causing damage or harm to something, resulting in its end or ruin.

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Culture

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Damaging has been used extensively in literature and poetry to describe the destructive power of nature or human actions. In music, it can be found in song titles and lyrics to convey a sense of harm or destruction.

How to Memorize "damaging"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a storm causing damage to a house or a person being hurt. Visualize the physical and emotional consequences.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word with the image of a storm or a broken object.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the acronym DAMaging: D - Destructive, A - Against, M - Material, and G - Goods.

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