damageable

adj — 2 senses

damageable

adj

Etymology From damage + -able.

1

Obsolete 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 Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
  • 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 Blount […], →OCLC:
2

Capable of being injured or weakened, susceptible to damage.

Derived terms
damageableness, nondamageable, undamageable

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