DAMAGED • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Damaged

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/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.

See images of 'Damaged'

Etymology of 'Damaged'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Damaged" Quotes from Famous Books

... in Packingtown; the whole district braced itself for the struggle that was an agony, and those whose time was come died off in hordes. All the year round they had been serving as cogs in the great packing machine; and now was the time for the renovating of it, and the replacing of damaged parts. There came pneumonia and grippe, stalking among them, seeking for weakened constitutions; there was the annual harvest of those whom tuberculosis had been dragging down. There came cruel, cold, ...

— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair

... in talk as we knew that the warriors would surely return as soon as they had gained control of their mounts. Hastening to his damaged machine we were bending every effort to finish the needed repairs and had almost completed them when we saw the two green monsters returning at top speed from opposite sides of us. When they had approached within a hundred ...

— A Princess of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... borrowers were permitted to record the books they borrowed, that they were allowed to retain them for a month, that damaged books should be reported to the Under Library Keeper before being taken away, and that a stocktaking fine of 2s. 6d. was provided for in the event of books not being returned in the ...

— Three Centuries of a City Library • George A. Stephen

... that time it was thought no very bad thing for a man to get drunk, if he was not in the habit of being brought before the magistrate for theft, &c.' John's father was one of the four drunkards. In early life he became a hard drinker, and he continued the practice until a damaged constitution, emptied purse, a careworn wife, and a neglected family, were the bitter fruits of his inebriation. 'He drank hard,' says John, 'spending almost all his money in drink, and was at last forced to sell his vessel and take to the menial work of helping to load and unload ...

— The Hero of the Humber - or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe • Henry Woodcock

... vision of Jane Crab, attired in a red flannel dressing-gown, and with her hair tightly strained into four skimpy plaits which stuck out horizontally from her head like the surviving rays of a badly damaged halo. ...

— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler

More quotes...