damaged 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of damagednext
as in injured

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damaged

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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
  • Authorities are investigating a shooting that left two people injured early Saturday morning in Union City.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
  • The Stanford defense was missing sixth-year linebacker and captain Tristan Sinclair and junior Collin Wright, its best player in coverage, who were both injured.
    Harold Gutmann, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
Definition of injured
Adjective
  • The first flawed assumption was that there were further inroads to be made with Republicans who are uncomfortable with Trump.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
  • In fact, the original research that linked autism to vaccines was flawed and was subsequently retracted, and no current research has shown a positive link or correlation between vaccines and autism.
    Omer Awan, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of flawed
Verb
  • His clean image was marred by scandal in the late 1980s when Garvey divorced his wife, got two other women pregnant, then married a fourth woman, his current wife.
    Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
  • His victory was celebrated not only as a win for the democratic process in a region marred by a series of recent military coups, but also as the ushering-in of a new and younger political generation in Senegal, where the median age is just 19.
    Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of marred
Verb
  • The public pleas for testing are part of health officials’ efforts to halt the outbreak that has disproportionately hurt Native Americans in the Great Plains and Southwest.
    Kff Health News, Orange County Register, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Matthews devotes one parenthetical sentence claiming rocket launches hurt coastal wildlife.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of hurt
Adjective
  • Her Millie is imperfect, damaged and human, not to mention quite adroit at code switching with her accent and vernacular.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The Pax Americana was ever imperfect and to many people in the world, from Vietnam to Iraq, smacked of hypocrisy.
    Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of imperfect
Verb
  • The ability to breach one algorithm may also indicate that similar algorithms could be compromised, snowballing this potential crisis across data security providers worldwide.
    Jason McNutt, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Email and text authentication are also easily compromised.
    Stephen Bohanon, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of compromised
Verb
  • Saddam's Playbook All these sites were targeted by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war and severely crippled the Iranian economy.
    Gaurav Sharma, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Predictions for holiday spending are beginning to trickle out, but there are a lot of question marks in the air, including a massive port workers’ strike that began Tuesday and has crippled all shipping container cargo on the East Coast.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of crippled
Adjective
  • Without breaking stride, Hunter blew past four more Utah defenders and hopped into the end zone, a broken play transformed into a work of art.
    Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
  • De Menezes was on his way to repair a broken fire alarm when he was shot and killed in an underground carriage at Stockwell station.
    Irenie Forshaw, theweek, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of broken
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