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Damaging vs Noxious - What's the difference?

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Damaging is a related term of noxious.


As adjectives the difference between damaging and noxious

is that damaging is harmful; injurious; causing damage while noxious is harmful; injurious.

As a verb damaging

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

    Synonyms

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    Verb

    (head)

    • noxious

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Harmful; injurious.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= It's a gas , passage=But out of sight is out of mind. And that

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "noxious" is often applied: substance, chemical, fume, gas, odor, plant, weed, animal, stimulus, stimulation.

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