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/dˈæmədʒd/ /dˈæmɪdʒd/ Listen

adjective

damaged adj.

Changed so as to reduce value, function, or other desirable trait; usually not used of persons. Opposite of undamaged. (Narrower terms: battered, beat-up, beaten-up, bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound; bent, crumpled, dented; blasted, rent, ripped, torn; broken-backed; burned-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate), burnt-out(prenominal), burnt out(predicate); burst, ruptured; corroded; cracked, crackled, crazed; defaced, marred; hurt, weakened; knocked-out(prenominal), knocked out; mangled, mutilated; peeling; scraped, scratched; storm-beaten) Also See blemished, broken, damaged, destroyed, impaired, injured, unsound.

Rendered imperfect by impairing the integrity of some part, or by breaking. Opposite of unbroken. (Narrower terms: busted; chipped; cracked; crumbled, fragmented; crushed, ground; dissolved; fractured; shattered, smashed, splintered; split; unkept, violated) Also See: damaged, imperfect, injured, unsound.

Synonyms: broken.

Being unjustly brought into disrepute; as, her damaged reputation.

Synonyms: discredited.

Made to appear imperfect; especially of reputation; as, the senator's seriously damaged reputation.

Synonyms: besmirched, flyblown, spotted, stained, sullied, tainted, tarnished.

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"Damaged" Quotes from Famous Books

... brother's opinion that Apollonius would not care to leave the life in Cologne of which he had become fond for such a trifling matter. The repairs could be completed in a short time with the present working force. There were only a few damaged places on the tower and roof. Moreover, apart from his wife's dislike of Apollonius which he had continued to combat in vain, it would be a useless torture to his brother to refresh in his mind all that ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IX - Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig • Various

... on its way across the North Sea with the other ships of the German High Seas fleet to surrender struck a mine. It was so badly damaged that it sank. ...

— History of the World War - An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War • Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish

... he viewed it round— "This article still may pass for sound. "Some flaws, soon patched, some stains are all "The harm it has had in its luckless fall. "Here, Puck!" and he called to one of his train— "The owner may have this back again. "Tho' damaged for ever, if used with skill, "It may serve perhaps to trade on still; "Tho' the gem can never as once be set, "It will do for ...

— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al

... because of Anne's soul; and Maisie knew that if she too was to be beautiful she must keep safe the beauty of their passion as she had kept safe the beauty of their friendship. It was clear and hard, unbreakable as crystal. She had been the one flaw in it, the thing that had damaged its perfection. Now that she had let Jerrold go it ...

— Anne Severn and the Fieldings • May Sinclair

... it on the starn of the Pontiac for fireproof paint. That foolishness ez all he's good for. And yet thar might be suthin' in the paint, if a feller had nigger luck. Ther's that New York chap ez bought up them damaged boxes of plug terbakker for fifty dollars a thousand, and sold 'em for foundations for that new building in Sansome Street at a thousand clear profit. It's all ...

— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte

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