damaged
(adjective) harmed or injured or spoiled; “I won’t buy damaged goods”; “the storm left a wake of badly damaged buildings”
discredited, damaged
(adjective) being unjustly brought into disrepute; “a discredited politician”; “her damaged reputation”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
damaged
simple past tense and past participle of damage
damaged (comparative more damaged, superlative most damaged)
Suffered a damage.
• Nouns to which "damaged" is often applied: building, house, home, bridge, tree, street, road, vehicle, car, aircraft, ship, machine, goods, merchandize, material, stock, book, document, file, hard disk, skin, hair, tissue, joint, cartilage, baggage, reputation.
• defective, faulty, injured, wounded; see also deteriorated
• complete, perfect, undamaged; see also intact
Source: Wiktionary
Dam"age, n. Etym: [OF. damage, domage, F. dommage, fr. assumed LL. damnaticum, from L. damnum damage. See Damn.]
1. Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief. He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage. Prov. xxvi. 6. Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune. Bacon.
2. pl. (Law)
Definition: The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.
Note: In common-law action, the jury are the proper judges of damages. Consequential damage. See under Consequential.
– Exemplary damages (Law), damages imposed by way of example to others.
– Nominal damages (Law), those given for a violation of a right where no actual loss has accrued.
– Vindictive damages, those given specially for the punishment of the wrongdoer.
Syn.
– Mischief; injury; harm; hurt; detriment; evil; ill. See Mischief.
Dam"age, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damages; p. pr. & vb. n. Damaging.] Etym: [Cf. OF. damagier, domagier. See Damage, n.]
Definition: To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair. He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship. Clarendon.
Dam"age, v. i.
Definition: To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in damage in sunlight.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 February 2025
(noun) the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state; “the state has lowered its income tax”
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