damaging
与える
解説 Definition
damaging は damage(損害を与える)の現在分詞からできた形容詞で、害を与える、ダメージを与えるという意味です。物や人、評判などに悪い影響を及ぼすことを表します。
Causing physical, emotional, financial, or reputational harm. It commonly modifies words such as effect, result, claim, or behavior, and it can also appear in the pattern be damaging to something or someone.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 damage「損害を与える」は語末の黙字 e を落として -ing を付け、damaging となります。-ing は /ɪŋ/ で、damage の語幹の発音はほぼ保たれます。harmful に近い形容詞ですが、damaging は damaging effect、damaging results、damaging to the skin のように、実際に損害や悪影響を生む点を強調します。
Damaging comes from damage, “to cause harm.” When -ing is added, the silent final e is dropped: damage becomes damaging. The ending is pronounced /ɪŋ/, while the main pronunciation of the base remains recognizable. Think of something actively producing harm, such as strong sunlight damaging skin or a storm having a damaging effect on a town. Harmful is a broad description of something likely to cause harm; damaging often emphasizes a harmful effect that weakens, injures, or reduces the value or reputation of its target. Learn the useful pattern damaging to something.
例文
The storm had a damaging effect on the town.
その嵐は町に大きな被害を与えました。
Too much sun can be damaging to your skin.
日光を浴びすぎると肌にダメージを与えることがあります。
The report described the damaging results of the accident.
その報告書は事故による有害な結果を説明していました。
damaging の類義語・関連語
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damaging の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語 damnum(損害・罰金)からフランス語 damage を経て英語に入った。-ingは現在分詞で「損害を与えている」の意。関連語: damage(損害)、indemnity(補償)。法律用語の「損害賠償」と同根で、金銭的・物理的な害を与えるニュアンスを持つ。
Damaging is formed from damage by dropping the final e and adding -ing. Damage entered English through Old French, ultimately deriving from Latin damnum, meaning “loss, injury, or penalty.” The noun first referred to loss or harm, and the verb developed the sense “to cause harm.” As an adjective, damaging describes something that produces physical, financial, personal, or reputational injury.
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