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US
/ˈdæmədʒd, ˈdæmɪdʒd/
]
[ UK /dˈæmɪdʒd/ ]
[ UK /dˈæmɪdʒd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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harmed or injured or spoiled
the storm left a wake of badly damaged buildings
I won't buy damaged goods -
being unjustly brought into disrepute
her damaged reputation
a discredited politician
How To Use damaged In A Sentence
- They estimate the cost of repairing the damaged roads at £1 million.
- Unless the damaged areas are quickly revegetated, the eroded soils sink below sea level and the area becomes open water.
- Furthermore, a series of strategic gaffs have further badly damaged the already squalid reputation which the industry has earned for itself.
- Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers room the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a washstand, a bureau, a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic. Chapter 1
- As he rose in society, his romantic entanglements damaged his career and he returned to his former sweetheart in Ireland. Times, Sunday Times
- These are all lonely, arguably damaged people, and once you get past the silliness it's all rather crushingly sad. TV highlights 10/08/201: Timothy Spall: Back At Sea | The Sopranos | Who Do You Think You Are? | 24 Hours in A&E | Forbidden Love
- Samantha went round and was delighted to find it was Danielle's chair - and was undamaged.
- Economists say the ecosystem is basically healthy; ecologists worry it may, be on the verge of being irreparably damaged.
- Richardson claims she was libeled and her reputation as a professional interviewer has been irrevocably damaged.
- These have damaged an already poorly performing economy. The Sun