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adjective

Definition of damagednext
as in injured

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verb

past tense of damage
1
as in marred
to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of the explosion in the sewers damaged the entire city's water supply

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2
as in wounded
to cause bodily damage to his knee was badly damaged in the accident, and he walked with a limp for months

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for damaged
  1. injured
  2. flawed
  3. marred
  4. hurt
  5. imperfect
  6. compromised
  7. crippled
  8. broken
Verb
  • At least 35 people were injured in the incident, officials said, and at the time some were hospitalized in critical condition.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Within the past 24-hours— according to Gaza’s Health Ministry— more than 59 people have been killed by strikes in the area and more than 270 have been injured.
    Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of injured
Adjective
  • Eulogies will probably dwell on a humble peanut farmer turned president, a tireless humanitarian, a striving and sometimes flawed man.
    Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
  • The idea for the book came to Rybczynski, an emeritus professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, while researching a 2014 article for Architect magazine on Tadao Ando’s dazzling but flawed Dream chair.
    Geoffrey Montes, Architectural Digest, 1 Jan. 2025
Definition of flawed
Verb
  • But others argue these budget controls are ensuring Connecticut won’t return to the 2010s, a decade marred by frequent annual deficits and some of the largest tax hikes in state history.
    Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The couple welcomed two children, True, 6, and Tatum, 2, but their romance was marred by Thompson's multiple cheating scandals.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of marred
Verb
  • The first-term mayor said $17.8 million in LAFD reductions hasn't hurt efforts to knock down the still out-of-control Palisades Fire.
    Janhvi Bhojwani, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2025
  • On a monthly basis, PPI dipped by 0.1% compared to a 0.1% increase in November, as infrastructure and real estate projects were temporarily suspended during the off-season, the National Bureau of Statistics said, hurting demand for steel.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of hurt
Adjective
  • In a partial solar eclipse, the alignment is imperfect, leaving the sun's light to form a crescent shape.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
  • But the surveys in the sky and on the water are also imperfect, so scientists are ramping up the effort to track the whales in other ways – especially in the Southeast, where the whales migrate to give birth this time of year.
    Emily Jones, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of imperfect
Verb
  • Cybersecurity can potentially be compromised by the same computational capacity that enables the solution of complex issues.
    Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • If your personal information has already been compromised, freezing your credit can be a vital step to stop thieves from exploiting your identity further.
    Alex Vakulov, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of compromised
Verb
  • His vengeance included turning Michigan State in for NCAA violations, leading to probation that crippled the program until the late 1970s.
    Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
  • As the city litigated and revised the environmental impact report, two devastating storms in December 2023 and February 2024 — the same series that crippled San Diego’s Ocean Beach Pier — substantially damaged the wharf.
    Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2024
Definition of crippled
Adjective
  • Minshew was terrible in 10 appearances and got benched multiple times before suffering a broken collarbone.
    Vic Tafur, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Teammate Jaylen Watson, who is recovering from a broken ankle, also mentioned the storm in a social-media message.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of broken
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