damaging

Variant of damage

damage Definition

dam·age (dam′ij)

noun

injury or harm to a person or thing, resulting in a loss in soundness or value
Law money claimed by, or ordered paid to, a person to compensate for injury or loss caused by the wrong of the opposite party or parties
Informal cost or expense

Etymology: ME < OFr < dam < L damnum, loss, injury: see damn

transitive verb damaged -·aged, damaging -·ag·ing

to do damage to

intransitive verb

to incur damage

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