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material
Noun
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Material is the things or ideas that are used in making or doing something.
The raw materials for the goods are mostly imported from Canada.
After the earthquake, it took a long time to rebuild because the building materials were often unavailable.
He spent a year researching and gathering material before writing the book.
material
Adjective
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Material things are things in the real world, often money.
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If something is material, it is big and important.
damage
Noun
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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.
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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
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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.