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damage
[ dam-ij ]
noun
- injury or harm that reduces value or usefulness:
The storm did considerable damage to the crops.
Synonyms:
- damages, Law. the estimated money equivalent for detriment or injury sustained.
- Often damages. Informal. cost; expense; charge:
are the damages for the lubrication job on my car?
verb (used with object)
- to cause damage to; injure or harm; reduce the value or usefulness of:
He damaged the saw on a nail.
Synonyms: ,
verb (used without object)
- to become damaged:
Soft wood damages easily.
damage
/ ˈæɪ /
noun
- injury or harm impairing the function or condition of a person or thing
- loss of something desirable
- informal.cost; expense (esp in the phrase what's the damage? )
verb
- tr to cause damage to
- intr to suffer damage
Derived Forms
- ˌ岹ˈٲ, noun
- ˈ岹Բ, adverb
- ˈ岹Բ, adjective
- ˈ岹, adjective
- ˈ岹, noun
Other Word Forms
- 岹a·· adjective
- 岹a···ness 岹a··i·ٲ noun
- 岹a· noun
- non·岹a·· adjective
- ·岹a noun verb (used with object) predamaged predamaging
- ܲȴ-岹a adjective
- ·岹a verb (used with object) redamaged redamaging
- un·岹a·· adjective
- ܲ·岹a adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of damage1
Idioms and Phrases
- do one wrong (damage)
- the damage
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The region sees damaging floods during the monsoon season, which begins in June and lasts until September.
The Georges demanded that Taylor Farms pay their son’s medical bills among other damages, including for “loss of enjoyment of life” and “emotional distress.”
The Court of Appeal has accepted that the "beliefs and motivation" of a defendant are too remote to constitute lawful excuse for causing damage to a property.
And actually, where he does his most damage is really more in the bedroom, the proverbial bedroom.
Nobody is telling this deeply damaged, destroyed human being the truth about anything that could bring him down.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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