Antonyms for damage
ˈdæm ɪdʒdam·age

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1. damage

   Abuse covers all unreasonable or improper use or treatment by word or act. A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect. It is possible to abuse a man without harming him, as when the criminal vituperates the judge; or to harm a man without abusing him, as when the witness tells the truth about the criminal. Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense. One may be justly reproached. To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence. To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives. "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy," Deut. xxiv, 14. Misemploy, misuse, and pervert are commonly applied to objects rather than to persons. A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms his associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, abuses every good gift of God.

   Antonyms:
   applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate

   Synonyms:
   abuse, aggrieve, defame, defile, disparage, harm, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, injure, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, reproach, revile, ruin, slander, victimize, vilify, violate, vituperate, wrong

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. damage

   Antonyms:
   compensation, recovery, reinstatement, advantage, benefit, reparation, blessing, damnable

   Synonyms:
   injury, hurt, loss, mischief, detriment, impairment

Matched Categories

1. • Casualty
   • Change
   • Cost
   • Military

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. damage, harm, impairmentnoun

   the occurrence of a change for the worse

   Synonyms:
   equipment casualty, hurt, scathe, terms, price, legal injury, injury, disability, handicap, constipation, wrong, harm, deadening, deterioration, disablement, impairment, trauma, stultification

2. damage, equipment casualtynoun

   loss of military equipment

   Synonyms:
   hurt, price, harm, terms, legal injury, impairment, wrong, equipment casualty, scathe

3. damage, harm, hurt, scathenoun

   the act of damaging something or someone

   Synonyms:
   hurt, suffering, injury, distress, detriment, price, harm, terms, legal injury, impairment, wrong, trauma, equipment casualty, scathe

4. price, terms, damagenoun

   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:
   hurt, cost, price, harm, toll, terms, legal injury, monetary value, impairment, footing, equipment casualty, scathe, wrong

5. wrong, legal injury, damageverb

   any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right

   Synonyms:
   legal injury, hurt, price, harm, terms, wrongfulness, impairment, wrong, equipment casualty, scathe

6. damageverb

   inflict damage upon

   "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"

7. damageverb

   suffer or be susceptible to damage

   "These fine china cups damage easily"

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1. damagenoun

   Synonyms:
   injury, detriment, impairment, defacement, harm, hurt, mischief

2. damageverb

   Synonyms:
   injure, hurt, harm, despoil, scathe, deface, impair, disfigure, damnify

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. replenish

   you had replenish a person.

   Submitted by anonymous on June 2, 2020  

How to use damage in a sentence?

1. Alfred Nobel:

   We have to understand the mechanisms, so we can selectively provide good therapy, we can't avoid DNA damage. We live in a world where we get exposed to DNA damaging agents all the time.

2. Michael Burger:

   In an event a country is able to clear the jurisdictional and legal hurdles of a transnational lawsuit, this would provide one potential methodology for allocating damage or allocating responsibility in collecting damages, in actual litigation, the methodologies will be challenged, there will be competing views, there will be a battle of the experts, and every aspect of The Dartmouth College study will be tested.

3. Rainier City Manager Debbie Dudley:

   Right now our workers are trying to put up some temporary-type fencing, the animals are so large that they do significant damage coming on and off the docks.

4. Michael Walter:

   We have unconfirmed reports of power flashes and possible wind damage in Clear Lake near Ellington Field where the Johnson Space Center is, power flashes occurred when high winds hit a transformer, which usually indicate a tornado coming through that area.

5. Gus Faucher:

   We're still in a very deep hole. We could do tremendous long-run damage to the economy if we don't get things done quickly.

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