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. Sigmund Freud:

   Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.

2. Jean Su:

   We're disappointed that The Supreme Court won't consider the President Donald Trump administration's flagrant abuse of the law to fast-track border wall construction, the Trump administration has made a mockery of the Constitution to build an enormously destructive wall. We'll continue to fight these illegal waivers and do everything possible to prevent further damage to the beautiful borderlands.

3. Ron Johnson:

   From my standpoint it's repairing the damage done by Obamacare, the biggest most notable damage is these skyrocketing premiums.

4. Vernon Keenan:

   We maintained security. We would not let there be disorder. We didn’t have civil disorder, property damage. And we had just a few arrests, we are absolutely satisfied.

5. Guy Taylor:

   The size or the strength of the storm was much higher than the last time … the impact in terms of damage and the impact on people’s lives has been more substantial.