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damage
noun as in injury, loss
Strongest matches
accident, blow, bruise, casualty, catastrophe, contamination, corruption, destruction, deterioration, devastation, disturbance, hardship, harm, illness, impairment, pollution, suffering, wound
Strong matches
adulteration, adversity, affliction, bane, blemish, breakage, cave-in, debasement, depreciation, deprivation, detriment, disservice, evil, hurt, infliction, knockout, marring, mischief, mishap, mutilation, outrage, reverse, ruin, ruining, spoilage, waste, wreckage, wrecking, wrong
verb as in cause injury, loss
Strongest matches
batter, break, burn, contaminate, harm, hurt, impair, infect, injure, maim, mangle, mar, pollute, ravage, ruin, scorch, smash, tarnish, tear, undermine, weaken, wound, wreck
Strong matches
abuse, bleach, blight, corrode, corrupt, crack, deface, defile, dirty, discolor, disfigure, disintegrate, dismantle, fade, gnaw, incapacitate, lacerate, maltreat, mutilate, rot, rust, scathe, scratch, split, spoil, stab, stain, vitiate, wrong
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Thousands of worshippers returned on Friday to the Gaza Strip's few intact and many damaged mosques, where for the first time in months loudspeakers blared the Islamic call to prayer.
She needs drugs to stay sane, but their side effects—weight gain, spaciness—damage her social life and career prospects and make her almost long for the release of madness.
I wanted to rebuild their world so everyone could see the damage done by one outlier with a gun.
But the court halved the damages Mr Fox was ordered to pay.
One, called LCA, damaged T cell function by causing endoplasmic reticulum stress, while another, UDCA, boosted T cell performance and drew more immune cells to the liver.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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