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Meanings of damaging in inglês

(Sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury.

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Designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions.

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Blasphemy laws are detrimental to freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
The Irish Times
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Anxiety disorders are debilitating psychiatric illnesses with detrimental effects on human health.
Pubmed
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Mr Elliott said the change would be detrimental to the legal profession.
Radio NZ
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We need direct-action campaigns that address the detrimental effects of these laws.
Ebony
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Both diseases have a synergistic detrimental effect on the cellular immune response.
Pubmed
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It may be prejudicial to the great end; it may be auxiliary.
Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
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My confusion was not prejudicial to me; she did not perceive it.
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 07
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The last thing we want to do is be exploitative or prejudicial.
The reversal
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The town's denizens are small-minded, prejudicial folk prone to hysteria and fear.
News.com.au
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These prejudicial ways of reacting may be called racial sets or attitudes.
The Science of Human Nature: A Psychology for Beginners
Usage of damaging in inglês
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Therefore, devaluing the US currency would present a far more damaging response.
News.com.au
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But of course, this same power can be used in damaging ways.
Death by Video Game
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Failure to deal with the debt crisis is damaging confidence in Europe.
The Irish Times
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This is damaging police efforts to bring criminals to justice, experts said.
Reuters
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The crisis is already showing signs of seriously damaging the Russian economy.
The Guardian
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Or is the risk, however small, of damaging the masterpiece too great?
The Irish Times
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This sets a very damaging precedent for market practices, the groups said.
Reuters
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The most recent involved another activity damaging to the environment: gold mining.
Reuters
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Every year, the month of April brings an outbreak of damaging wildfires.
The Irish Times
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Eco-friendly products are often more expensive than the ones damaging the environment.
The South African
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The crowd responded with petrol bombs, damaging one police vehicle, police said.
Ebony
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Such incidents were particularly damaging to Ireland's international tourism reputation, he said.
The Irish Times
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He said experts determined Jinx's statements would be damaging to national security.
Reuters
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Religious engagement, however, may counteract the damaging effects of early life stress.
Pubmed
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the case had been damaging for many.
Radio NZ
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But more ocean means more ocean water entering and damaging the system.
Wired
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