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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  damaging \damaging\ adj.
     1. causing harm or injury; as, damaging to career and
        reputation.
  
     Syn: detrimental, detrimental to(predicate), prejudicial,
          prejudicious.


          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. designed or tending to discredit, especially without
        positive or helpful suggestions.
  
     Syn: negative.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Damage \Dam"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Damaged}
     (d[a^]m"[asl]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Damaging}
     (d[a^]m"[asl]*j[i^]ng).] [Cf. OF. damagier, domagier. See
     {Damage}, n.]
     To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of;
     to hurt; to injure; to impair.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a
           broadside, with which he killed many of his men and
           damaged the ship.                        --Clarendon.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  damaging
       adj 1: (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury;
              "damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's
              coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the
              defendant" [syn: {detrimental}, {prejudicial}, {prejudicious}]
       2: designed or tending to discredit, especially without
          positive or helpful suggestions; "negative criticism"
          [syn: {negative}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "damaging":
     bad, baleful, baneful, corroding, corrosive, corrupting,
     corruptive, counterproductive, deadly, deleterious, detrimental,
     disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, eroding, erosive,
     evil, harmful, hurtful, injurious, lethal, malefic, malevolent,
     malign, malignant, mischievous, noisome, noxious, ominous,
     pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, scatheful, toxic, venenate,
     veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent
  
  

















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