damaging vs harm

damaging

noun

  • An act of causing damage. 

adj

  • Harmful; injurious; causing damage. 

harm

noun

  • That which causes injury, damage, or loss. 

  • detriment; misfortune. 

  • physical injury; hurt; damage 

  • emotional or figurative hurt 

verb

  • To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something. 

How often have the words damaging and harm occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )