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dam·age

 (dăm′ĭj)
n.
1. Destruction or a loss in value, usefulness, or ability resulting from an action or event.
2. damages Law Money required to be paid as compensation for an injury or wrong.
3. Informal Cost; price: What's the damage for the tickets to the show?
v. dam·aged, dam·ag·ing, dam·ag·es
v.tr.
To cause damage to.
v.intr.
To suffer or be susceptible to damage.
[Middle English, from Old French : dam, loss (from Latin damnum) + -age, -age.]
dam′age·a·bil′i·ty n.
dam′age·a·ble adj.
dam′ag·ing·ly adv.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.damaged - harmed or injured or spoiled; "I won't buy damaged goods"; "the storm left a wake of badly damaged buildings"
blemished - marred by imperfections
broken - physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split; "a broken mirror"; "a broken tooth"; "a broken leg"; "his neck is broken"
destroyed - spoiled or ruined or demolished; "war left many cities destroyed"; "Alzheimer's is responsible for her destroyed mind"
impaired - diminished in strength, quality, or utility; "impaired eyesight"
injured - harmed; "injured soldiers"; "injured feelings"
undamaged - not harmed or spoiled; sound
2.damaged - being unjustly brought into disrepute; "a discredited politician"; "her damaged reputation"
discredited
disreputable - lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance
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Translations
مُتَضَرِّر
poškozený
beskadiget
skemmdur
poškodený
bozukhasar görmüş

damaged

adj → beschädigt, schadhaft (geh); (= broken) → defekt
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damage

(ˈdӕmidʒ) noun
1. injury or hurt, especially to a thing. The storm did/caused a lot of damage; She suffered brain-damage as a result of the accident.
2. (in plural) payment for loss or injury suffered. The court awarded him $5,000 damages.
verb
to make less effective or less usable etc; to spoil. The bomb damaged several buildings; The book was damaged in the post.
ˈdamaged adjective
(negative undamaged). a damaged table.
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Great damage done to enemy fleet; remainder in full retreat, many badly damaged. Zeppelin just down in Essex, four aeroplanes between here and Romford."
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Philip was impatient and could never rest till he had put in action the plan which he had in mind; so on the following afternoon he got in a dealer in second-hand furniture who offered him three pounds for all his goods damaged and undamaged; and two days later he moved into the house opposite the hospital in which he had had rooms when first he became a medical student.
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But the Scarecrow, however damaged, was all there, while the pumpkin head that was so necessary to Jack's existence was missing; so the boy seized a long pole that fortunately lay near at hand and anxiously turned again toward the river.
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"If they're damaged goods, they're like enough to be a bit the better quality."
Glegg's eyes, "it'll be bought up by the huckster's wife at Fibb's End,--that's where it'll go--ten shillin' for the whole lot--ten yards, countin' the damaged un--five-an'-twenty shillin' 'ud ha' been the price, not a penny less.
"Eh, but a damaged thing," said Bob, in a tone of deprecating disgust.
Glegg was busy examining the damaged yard, and throwing her head back to see how far the fault would be lost on a distant view.
That damaged bit's turned your stomach now; I see it has," said Bob, wrapping the muslin up with the utmost quickness, and apparently about to fasten up his pack.
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A splinter from the projectile had damaged one of the control levers beyond the possibility of repair outside a machine shop; but after considerable tinkering, Carthoris was able to propel his wounded flier at low speed, a rate which could not approach the rapid gait of the thoat, whose eight long, powerful legs carried it over the ochre vegetation of the dead sea-bottom at terrific speed.
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All the damaged dams require immediate repair, according to the report, which was prepared by NIA Regional Office 3.
'Stable NIA dams to continue releasing irrigation water'
Damaged private property includes a CNG station at Faizabad that faced Rs12m worth of damages, Rs100,000 worth of damages to a furniture and fibre market, Rs91,000 worth of damages to a grocery store and Rs1.4m worth of damages to Crescent Furniture, a shop near the home of former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.
'Rs40m worth of damage caused to property during Faizabad sit-in'
ISLAMABAD -- National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has provided 1,403 classrooms/shelter tents to mitigate effects of earthquake-2015 and to assist districts for restoration of education process at fully damaged schools.
NDMA provides 1,403 classrooms/shelters to facilitate damaged schools after quake-2015

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