Damaging and Monstrous

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Damaging adjective - Causing or capable of causing harm.

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Monstrous and damaging are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Monstrous" instead an adjective "Damaging".

Nearby Words: damage, damaged

Monstrous adjective - Badly or imperfectly formed.

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Damaging and monstrous are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Damaging" instead an adjective "Monstrous".

Nearby Words: monster, monstrosity, monstrously

One can also feed a pig enough health-damaging meat to turn it into a Werepig, then having its former kin kill it in its temporary monstrous state for more meat.

Source: Video Game / Don't Starve
On the other hand, monstrous creatures will suffer no ill effects until the final wound is lost, at which point the trope is displayed brilliantly and they are simply removed from play, rarely with any damaging effects to the battlefield around.

Source: Critical Existence Failure / Tabletop Games
Furthermore, any glancing or penetrating hits will at least keep the tank from shooting, whereas multi-wound infantry and monstrous creature units can take repeated damaging hits with no effect until they lose their last wound and experience a Critical Existence Failure.

Source: Strong Flesh, Weak Steel

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