different between damaging vs corrosive

English

Etymology

damage +? -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dæm?d???/

Verb

damaging

1. present participle of damage

Adjective

damaging (comparative more damaging, superlative most damaging)

1. Harmful; injurious; causing damage.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:harmful

Antonyms

• beneficial (causing benefit)
• undamaging (causing no damage)

Translations

Noun

damaging (plural damagings)

1. An act of causing damage.
   • 1855, Charles Dickens, Household Words

     That immortal creature had gone over the proofs with great pains — had of course taken out the stiflings — hard-plungings, lungeings, and other convulsions — and had also taken out her weakenings and damagings of her own effects.

English

Etymology

From Old French corrosif.

Adjective

corrosive (comparative more corrosive, superlative most corrosive)

1. Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
2. Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
3. destroying or undermining something gradually.

Related terms

Translations

Noun

corrosive (plural corrosives)

1. That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
2. Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.?o.ziv/

Adjective

corrosive

1. feminine singular of corrosif

Italian

Adjective

corrosive

1. feminine plural of corrosivo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kor.ro??si?.u?e/, [k?r?o??s?i?u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kor.ro?si.ve/, [k?r???s?i?v?]

Adjective

corr?s?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of corr?s?vus