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damage English

Meaning damage meaning

What does damage mean?
Definitions in simple English

damage Noun

— If something has some damage, there is something broken or hurt. Their car hit a truck, but luckily there was very little damage to the car. — Money that someone has to pay someone else because something was damaged or someone was hurt. The reason his car hit another car was that he did something wrong, so he had to pay damages to the owner of the other car.

damage Verb

— If you damage something, you break or hurt it. All those cigarettes have damaged her health. The factory has caused significant damage to the local environment.

damage

— verb inflict damage upon The snow damaged the roof She damaged the car when she hit the tree — noun the occurrence of a change for the worse — noun loss of military equipment — noun the act of damaging something or someone — verb suffer or be susceptible to damage These fine china cups damage easily — noun (= wrong) any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right — noun (= price, terms) the amount of money needed to purchase something the price of gasoline he got his new car on excellent terms how much is the damage?

Synonyms damage synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as damage?

damage English » English

harm injury hurt loss destroy spoil injure ruin detriment impair break waste destruction wound wreck mar impairment defect weaken spoiling scathe disadvantage deface lose disrupt deteriorate bad wrong vitiate upset mischief lesion flaw disfigure corrupt collapse vandalize stab shatter mutilate laceration imperfection fault devastate demolish cut breakdown blemish accident undermine

Topics damage topics

What do people use damage to talk about?
Physical actions Break, wear out

Damage
Person Healthy

Injure
Social behavior Behavior Do good to

Do evil to
Social behavior Behavior Do good to Meddle

Spoil
Universe, creation Sky

Sun
Person Life Die

Kill
Social behavior Behavior Good, moral

Reputation

Conjugation damage conjugation

How do you conjugate damage?

damage · verb

Examples damage examples

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Simple sentences

Smoking does damage your lungs.
We are liable for the damage.
We went to court when they refused to pay for the damage.
The house did not suffer much damage because the fire was quickly put out.
The damage is done.
The storm did great damage to her property.
The explosion did a lot of damage to the building.
The earthquake caused widespread damage.
The typhoon did great damage to the village.
The damage from the typhoon was enormous.
The damage was covered by insurance.
All this damage is the result of the storm.
It will damage the crops.
We estimated the damage at 1000 dollars.
The unprecedented drought did severe damage to the wheat harvest.
The flood did a lot of damage to the village.
I will make up for the damage I did to your car.
The flood did great damage to the crops.
The damage from the flood was negligible.

Movie subtitles

This is thought to be damage caused by the Geass invading the cerebrum.
To hide the damage. Nice.
And, whether there is or not, the damage is done.
Apart from wilful damage, disorderly behaviour and assault of a police officer?
You may feel out of control, but remember, we are stronger than our damage.
I get stressed and when the pressure comes on, I feel the destructive urges of my damage.
Not one of us is above the damage of the world.
We look at the damage, not with anger or self-hate, but locate it.
If you please, don't punish this young woman - how much is the damage?
For someone for luck, someone must pay for the damage.
Maybe a little bit of damage.
Haven't you done enough damage for one night?
I brought Kong back here, he got loose, did a lot of damage. got killed, and that's that.
He might do some damage and hurt somebody.
No one will notice your moped damage.
Fortunately his brain seems to be completely intact. The damage is quite serious.
Yes, you damage so easily. - Damage?
Haven't you done enough damage already?
Not to obstruct justice, even if I could, but one boy threw that stone. did this special damage.
I'm going. I'm going back to New York. if only to repair the damage that's been done since I've known you.
The damage to Miss Swallow, the museum, Mr. Peabody and everybody.
Which is why removing you is an easy piece of damage limitation.
How much does the damage cost?
Do you know how much damage it can cause?
Yes, you damage so easily.
Damage?
I'm going back to New York. if only to repair the damage that's been done since I've known you.
Was there a lot of damage?
I think the damage was just a scratch on the right side.
Don't you realize what it could cost us in damage suits. if this isn't handled diplomatically?

News and current affairs

The companies routinely bribe officials to gain oil leases, lie about output, evade taxes, and dodge responsibility for the environmental damage that they cause.
To an economist, the problem is obvious: polluters are not paying the full costs of the damage they cause.
It captured our attention because it was so bad in terms of lives and property damage.
The most critical issue isn't any rise or fall in emissions. It is how much climate damage we can avoid.
But much of this damage will be avoided by people choosing for themselves to adapt to a change in their environment.
To the extent that false flags are imperfect and rumors of the source of an attack are widely deemed credible (though not legally probative), reputational damage to an attacker's soft power may contribute to deterrence.
Here, major states would have an interest in limiting damage by agreeing to cooperate on forensics and controls.
Of the harm that inequality inflicts on our economies, politics, and societies, the damage done to children demands special concern.
Who would have believed that one administration could do so much damage so quickly?
A third factor that should also be taken into account is what damage would be done to the emerging international legal system for ending the impunity long enjoyed by state officials who use their power to commit atrocities.
Studies of humans with damage to the amygdala, due to neurological disease or as a consequence of surgery to control epilepsy, show that our brains also work in this same basic way.
Sometimes leaders think that vision can solve most of their problems, but the wrong vision - or an overly ambitious vision - can do damage.
Israel's government, meanwhile, has gone out of its way to attack Palestinian hard-line groups, causing more death, damage, and bitter feelings.
That is true, of course, but the damage that this relatively small group inflicted was monumental.
While the legislation does too little to address America's problem of chronic and rising budget deficits, the damage that it inflicts on the economy in the short term is likely to be limited.
A tax on carbon should be equivalent to its damage.
No amount of money will undo the damage done.
But adequate investment in mitigating the damage could partly resolve the problem.
But no one has so far argued that the cost of damage caused to the development prospects of poor countries and regions is less than the amount of compensation being offered to cover adjustment costs.
The reason is obvious: the damage caused is many times higher than the compensation being requested.
Nonetheless, it is argued, whatever the real cost of the damage, developed countries currently cannot afford to provide that kind of money.
It is impossible at this point to gauge the full extent of the damage with any degree of precision.
Adaptation could allow for higher carbon emissions in another way: reducing the damage and harm that we experience from global warming, giving us more time to implement alternatives to reliance on fossil fuels.
It is how much climate damage we can avoid.
Contrary to most commentary, this is not a growth strategy, but rather an attempt to limit the considerable risk of another major downturn, induced by further balance-sheet damage in the housing sector.

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