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damaging

adj
/ˈdæmɪd͡ʒɪŋ/UK

Etymology

From damage + -ing.

  1. inherited from scath
  2. derived from damnum
  3. derived from *damnāticum✻
  4. derived from damage
  5. inherited from damage
  6. formed as damaging — “damage + -ing”

Definitions

  1. Causing damage

    Causing damage; harmful, injurious.

  2. gerund of damage

    gerund of damage: an act of causing damage.

    • That immortal creature had gone over the proofs with great pains — had of course taken out the stiflings — hard-plungings, lungeings, and other convulsions — and had also taken out her weakenings and damagings of her own effects.

  3. present participle and gerund of damage

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at damaging. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01damaging02harmful03harm04hurt05injury06damage07impair08negatively

A definitional loop anchored at damaging. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at damaging

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA