damaging
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- Reino Unido//ˈdæmɪd͡ʒɪŋ//
Causing damage; harmful, injurious.
adjetivo
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Causing damage; harmful, injurious.
One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
Heatwaves are especially damaging to children, as they are less able to regulate their body temperature compared to adults, the statement said, adding that the more heatwaves children are exposed to, the greater the chance of health problems including chronic respiratory conditions, asthma, and cardiovascular diseases.
Etimologia
Etymology tree English damage Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ynge English -ing English damaging From damage + -ing.
substantivo
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Também uma forma de damagegerund 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.
verbo
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Também uma forma de damagepresent participle and gerund of damage
Formas
- plural
- damagings
- comparativo
- more damaging
- superlativo
- most damaging