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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:
What 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 yvlog 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
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of damage1
Idioms and Phrases
- do one wrong (damage)
- the damage
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
If their behaviour doesn't normalize, it could signal permanent brain damage, and humane euthanasia becomes necessary.
For Mr Hidalgo it is the banana exporters suffering reputational and economic damage.
"A lot of the market turmoil we've seen is not about the substance of the economic damage of tariffs on their own. A lot of it is about the uncertainty," he said.
Fireworks have been a New Year tradition for decades in the Netherlands, but the scale of injuries and damage on the night has spiralled in recent years.
But beyond tariffs, there are other ways for these two nations to attempt to damage each other through trade.
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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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