Synonyms 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.

   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

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1. damage

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

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

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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"

Matched Categories

1. • Casualty
   • Change
   • Cost
   • Military

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1. damagenoun

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

2. damageverb

   Synonyms:
   injure, impair, hurt, harm, mar

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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

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1. List of paraphrases for "damage":

   harm, damages, injury, prejudice, detriment, undermine, loss, deterioration, damaged, destruction, danni, devastation, lesion, pity, havoc, impair, injuries, degradation, jeopardize, sabotage, shame

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1. List of known nicknames for "Damage":

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1. Jonathan Miller:

   There is some reputational damage and current investors may simply prefer an exit when the fund re-opens, they're going to need to access their money, so the portfolio will need to have a totally different make-up to that of today. How long it takes to reach that point is difficult to estimate – it certainly won't be days from now.

2. The PKK:

   Two of our armored vehicles suffered heavy damage after the detonation of hand-made explosives on the road. As a result of the blast, there were martyrs and wounded among our heroic armed comrades.

3. Geng Shuang:

   The US has important interests in Hong Kong, if the relevant act were to become law, it would not only harm China's interests and China-US relations, but would also seriously damage US interests.

4. Kathy Lien:

   It is not your ordinary day in the foreign exchange market when the Russian rouble and the Mexican peso hit record lows while the Hong Kong dollar falls to its weakest level since 1999, emerging market countries bear the brunt of the selling because the slowdown in global growth and volatility in commodities causes significant economic damage for these countries.

5. Anne Chapas:

   You want to look at a night cream that has moisturizing ingredients such as high hyaluronic acid and dimethicone, plus look for one that has an antioxidant to repair the damage that happened throughout the day and even one with a light retinol to start repairing those fine lines.