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DAMAGE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of damaging something or someone

Synonyms:

damage; harm; hurt; scathe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("damage" is a kind of...):

change of integrity (the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "damage"):

impairment (damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality)

defacement; disfiguration; disfigurement; mutilation (the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something)

wound; wounding (the act of inflicting a wound)

burn (damage inflicted by fire)

defloration (an act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something)

Derivation:

damage (inflict damage upon)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right

Synonyms:

damage; legal injury; wrong

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("damage" is a kind of...):

injury (wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Loss of military equipment

Synonyms:

damage; equipment casualty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("damage" is a kind of...):

casualty (a decrease of military personnel or equipment)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "damage"):

battle damage; combat casualty (loss of military equipment in battle)

operational casualty; operational damage (loss of military equipment in field operations)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The occurrence of a change for the worse

Synonyms:

damage; harm; impairment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("damage" is a kind of...):

alteration; change; modification (an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "damage"):

detriment; hurt (a damage or loss)

deformation; distortion (a change for the worse)

ladder; ravel; run (a row of unravelled stitches)

Derivation:

damage (inflict damage upon)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The amount of money needed to purchase something

Example:

how much is the damage?

Synonyms:

damage; price; terms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("damage" is a kind of...):

cost (the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "damage"):

valuation (assessed price)

support level ((stock market) the price at which a certain security becomes attractive to investors)

cash price; spot price (the current delivery price of a commodity traded in the spot market)

purchase price (the price at which something is actually purchased)

highway robbery (an exorbitant price)

factory price (price charged for goods picked up at the factory)

closing price ((stock market) the price of the last transaction completed during a day's trading session)

bid price ((stock market) the price at which a broker is willing to buy a certain security)

asking price; selling price (the price at which something is offered for sale)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflict damage upon

Example:

She damaged the car when she hit the tree

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "damage" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "damage"):

bang up; smash; smash up (damage or destroy as if by violence)

wear away; whittle away; whittle down (cut away in small pieces)

deflower; impair; mar; spoil; vitiate (make imperfect)

shatter (damage or destroy)

cut up; mangle; mutilate (destroy or injure severely)

eat away; erode; fret (remove soil or rock)

corrode; eat; rust (cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid)

blemish; flaw (add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective)

impair (make worse or less effective)

hurt; injure (cause damage or affect negatively)

afflict; smite (cause physical pain or suffering in)

disturb (damage as if by shaking or jarring)

bruise (damage (plant tissue) by abrasion or pressure)

total (damage beyond the point of repair)

break (render inoperable or ineffective)

bilge (cause to leak)

frost (damage by frost)

burn (damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

damage (the act of damaging something or someone)

damage (the occurrence of a change for the worse)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Suffer or be susceptible to damage

Example:

These fine china cups damage easily

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "damage" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Credits

 Context examples: 

The polymer is nontoxic, but exposure to the monomer can cause central and peripheral nervous system damage resulting in hallucinations, drowsiness and numbness in the hands and legs.

(Acrylamide, NCI Thesaurus)

Molony also claims the ship backed into its Southampton berth in a bid to hide fire damage.

(UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic, Wikinews)

Exposure to high levels can damage the brain and kidneys.

(Mercury, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry)

If left untreated, the parasitic infection causes anemia, heart, kidney, and endocrine failure, and neurologic damage.

(African Trypanosomiasis, NCI Thesaurus)

Organic compounds and particular matter released when burning forests to clear land for agriculture can kill human lung cells or lead to irreversible damage to DNA, according to a new study.

(Lung damage from agricultural fires probed, SciDev.Net)

A disorder characterized by the acute loss of renal function and is traditionally classified as pre-renal (low blood flow into kidney), renal (kidney damage) and post-renal causes (ureteral or bladder outflow obstruction).

(Acute Renal Failure, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

The immune system mistakenly attacks your own tissues, damaging your adrenal glands.

(Addison Disease, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

A rare metabolic disorder characterized by damage of the myelin sheaths in the nervous system and degeneration of the adrenal glands.

(Adrenoleukodystrophy, NCI Thesaurus)

Morphologically, there is an inflammatory infiltrate composed of lymphocytes and neutrophils and vascular damage in the rejected tissue.

(Acute Rejection, NCI Thesaurus)

Others enter the blood through leakage from cell damage and cell death.

(Study highlights potential for ‘liquid health check’ to predict disease risk, University of Cambridge)