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Synonyms for damage
ˈdæm ɪdʒdam·age

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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.4 / 5 votes

  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.

    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

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 1 vote

  1. damage

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

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

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 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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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. damagenoun

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

  2. damageverb

    Synonyms:
    injure, impair, hurt, harm, mar

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. damagenoun

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

  2. damageverb

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

Nicknames0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of known nicknames for "Damage":

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How to use damage in a sentence?

  1. Ankit Bharat:

    A lung transplant was the only option, she was starting to develop multi-organ failure from the result of the permanent damage that she had.

  2. Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images Hecht:

    As much as folks feel like it’s been an unrelenting winter, we actually have gotten some at least weeklong breaks and, in some cases, multi-weeklong breaks in between these sequences, had we had this winter and everything that happened back-to-back without any breaks during the storm cycles at all, the level of flooding and the level of damage in California would be dramatically higher.

  3. Jane Houlihan:

    There's also not as much evidence that cadmium is neurotoxic to babies, or at least the body of evidence isn't there at the same levels as lead and arsenic, lead and arsenic damage isn't reversible -- these are permanent impacts on IQ, learning ability and behavior, so it's a big deal.

  4. Erika Sanzi:

    Educator sexual abuse is a major problem that largely gets ignored because it's so uncomfortable to talk about, while a very small fraction of educators and school employees prey on the children in their care, one bad actor can do damage to many students.

  5. David Nutt:

    It would also help scientists to develop new and more effective cannabinoid-based medicines for a range of other conditions. there will be many other people in the UK with severe epilepsy who are likely to benefit from medical cannabis and provision must be made to stop them suffering brain damage and death from cannabis-treatable seizures.


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