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  • noun Somebody or something that damages.

Etymologies

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to damage + -er

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Examples

  • So, Jeffrey Dahmer, having killed merely 17 people during the period ‘87-’91, was merely a collateral damager?

    Matthew Yglesias » Getting Closer to Nowhere 2009

  • I don't think I could be, after the damager he's done not only to his wife and 4 sons, but to the State he's supposed to be serving.

    Jenny Sanford on her husband: 'The ball is in his court' 2009

  • About once a year some pious public library banishes Huck Finn from its children's department, and on the same plea always — that Huck, the neglected and untaught son of a town drunkard, is given to lying, when in difficulty and hard pressed, and is therefore a bad example for young people, and a damager of their morals.

    Excerpt From ‘The Autobiography of Mark Twain’ 2010

  • Not like back in 1993, but as Drew Griffin pointed out, you don't really need to go over top of those levees to get the damager there.

    CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2008 2008

  • VARGAS: Newspaper reports and explosive unconfirmed reports in tabloid magazines about her sex life while married to Kevin Federline - allegations coupled with pictures like this, showing Brit's now - infamous pantyless partying while out with fellow wild child Paris Hilton - that could really damager her image when it comes to the custody battle over her two kids with K-Fed.

    CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2007 2007

  • VARGAS: Newspaper reports and explosive unconfirmed reports in tabloid magazines about her sex life while married to Kevin Federline, allegations coupled with pictures like this, showing Brit's now - infamous pantyless partying while out with fellow wild child Paris Hilton, that could really damager her image when it comes to the custody battle over her two kids with K-Fed.

    CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2007 2007

  • VARGAS: Newspaper reports and explosive unconfirmed reports in tabloid magazines about her sex life while married to Kevin Federline - allegations coupled with pictures like this, showing Brit ` s now-infamous pantyless partying while out with fellow wild child Paris Hilton - that could really damager her image when it comes to the custody battle over her two kids with K-Fed.

    CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2007 2007

  • Are you honestly saying that this very egregious health damager is less significant then pollen or air pollutants?

    Healthy Living 2006

  • He describes Pirro as attempting "damager control."

    CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2006 2006

  • What is "Men's damager, words 'hinderer, and yet words' arouser?"

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

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