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Damaging vs Disturbing - What's the difference?

damaging | disturbing |

As adjectives the difference between damaging and disturbing

is that damaging is harmful; injurious; causing damage while disturbing is causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.

As verbs the difference between damaging and disturbing

is that damaging is while disturbing is .

damaging

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Harmful; injurious; causing damage.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging , but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools

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    • disturbing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing .}}

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