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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
- 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
- Unless the damaged areas are quickly revegetated, the eroded soils sink below sea level and the area becomes open water.
- Economists say the ecosystem is basically healthy; ecologists worry it may, be on the verge of being irreparably damaged.
- They estimate the cost of repairing the damaged roads at £1 million.
- These have damaged an already poorly performing economy. The Sun
- Even if the knock is not severe enough to cause the skull to fracture, the brain bangs against the skull and can be damaged.
- Make a boot disk in case your computer is damaged or compromised
- Glaucoma is more common in old age, and happens when the optic nerve in the eye is damaged.
- Consequently, Muir believes, biotech fish could quickly decimate a fish population by their increased ability to produce damaged young.
- A rail system can reroute traffic around destroyed tracks, repair sections of damaged rail, or even transfer freight from boxcars to trucks.