damageable
Hurtful; pernicious.
Adjective
- Hurtful; pernicious.
- That it be not damageable vnto your royall maiestie. - 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to...
- Verily experience makes us thereby feele and undergoe many damageable treasons. - 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 16, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward...
- Capable of being injured or weakened, susceptible to damage.
Origin
Etymology tree English damage Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English damageable From damage + -able.