- 1鐵證如山的；足以證明有罪的
If a fact is damning, it does not only look bad. It points a finger. Damning evidence is the kind that makes it hard to keep saying “I didn’t do it.” A damning report, a damning video, a damning silence — all of these show that someone has done something seriously wrong, or at least that the story they told will not hold. People use it a lot in the news, in court, and at work when an investigation lands. It is fairly formal. Though actually, the religious picture is still hiding in the word: to damn someone was to condemn them. Today the condemnation is usually by proof, not by a priest. People also stretch it in the old phrase damning with faint praise — saying something so nice that it actually hurts. Do not mix this with damned. Damned is a curse, or a loud very. Damning is about the proof.
From the word’s history
From Middle English dampnynge; damn + -ing.
damn（譴責）加 -ing。
組成damn + -ing. From Middle English dampnynge: the -ing form of damn, used as an adjective (and still, less often, as a verb).
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
damningadj/ˈdæmɪŋ/
- 1
Condemning; (often) sufficient to defeat a political or commercial rival.
- damning evidence was clear for all to see
- In terms of infrastructure, Frank says there has been better news in recent years, following a highly damning report prepared for the Friends of the Far North Line campaign group by consultant Tony Glazebrook [...].
damningnoun/ˈdæmɪŋ/
- 1
A condemnation.
- This elicited damnings from pulpit and press, and insured a healthy run.
- 2
An act of swearing with the word "damn".
- No man is believed a jot the more for all the asseverations, damnings, and swearings he makes.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。