- causing damage; having a bad effect on somebody/something
- damaging consequences/effects
- damaging to somebody/something Lead is potentially damaging to children's health.
Extra Examples- Smoking is damaging to health.
- These new measures will do nothing to raise school standards: they may be positively damaging.
- A strike would hit public services and be politically damaging for the government.
- This was one of the most damaging allegations made against him.
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- fairly
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