damages

/ˈdamɪdʒ/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈdamɪdʒ/

damages

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

da - ma - ges -> damages

Myanmar meaning

(pl) လျော်ကြေး။ နစ်နာကြေး။ (v) ပျက်စီးစေသည်။ ဖျက်ဆီးသည်။ (v[sg]) ပျက်စီးစေ

Full entry

damage / 'dæmÇdʒ / n

၁။ [U] ~ (to sth)
(က) အပျက်အစီး။ ထိခိုက်မှု။
millions of dollars' worth of storm damage ❍ brain damage ❍ The vandals did a lot of damage to the car ❍ This could cause serious damage to the country's economy / to her reputation ❍ extensive/irreparable/permanent damage ❍ Please let me pay for the damage.
(ခ) ပျက်စီးမှုအတိုင်းအတာ။ အပျက်။ Let's take a look at the damage.
၂။ damages [pl] လျော်ကြေး။ နစ်နာကြေး။ He sued the company and won £ 5 000 (in) damages.
v ပျက်စီးစေသည်။ ဖျက်ဆီးသည်။
damage a fence/a car / furniture ❍ damage sb's career ❍ Relations between the two countries have been badly/severely damaged by this incident. ❍ a damaged pipeline/tendon.
❏ damage limitation n [U] နိုင်ငံရေးအရှုပ်တော်ပုံ စသည် ထိခိုက်မှု ပိုမိုမကျယ်ပြန့်သွားစေရန် ကြိုးပမ်းတားဆီးခြင်း။
❏ damaging adj ~(to sth) ထိခိုက်နစ်နာစေသော။ damaging chemicals ❍ make potentially damaging allegations ❍ How damaging do you think this will be to the Democratic Party?
❏ what's the damage? [IDM ] (infml) ဘယ်လောက်ကျပါ သလဲ။ Thanks for fixing the car— what's the damage?

More examples

Mr Charlton surveyed the damage caused by the bulldozer.
[damage to] : Damage to the building could take six months to repair.
[do damage] : No damage had been done, and we pushed the van back onto the road.
[suffer damage] : The house suffered only superficial damage in the fire.
[serious/severe/extensive damage] : A fire had caused serious damage to their flat.
[permanent/irreparable/irreversible damage] : Mining in the area was doing irreparable damage to the environment.
[brain/liver/nerve damage] : A new drug to treat nerve damage
[storm/flood/fire/bomb damage] : Experts have been assessing the level of flood damage.
Many traumatic events may be overcome without lasting damage.
[damage to] : The damage to the bank’s image is extremely serious.
[untold damage] : The revelations caused untold damage to his political reputation.
[pay damages] : Mrs Owen was ordered to pay damages of £6, 000.
[award/grant (someone) damages] : The jury awarded damages of over $9 million to the victims.
[seek/demand damages] : Brown is seeking damages of $1, 500 for each day of his incarceration.
[be denied/refused damages] : The man was refused damages on the grounds that he had suffered embarrassment but not distress.
[obtain damages] : The injured party needs to prove the extent of the harm in order to obtain damages.

Synonyms

injure, harm, spoil, hurt, smash up, break, dent, scratch, wound, abuse, accident, adulteration, adversity, affliction, amount, bane, bang up, batter, bill, bleach, blemish, blight, blow, breakage, bruise, burn, casualty, catastrophe, cause injury, cave-in, contaminate, contamination, corrode, corrupt, corruption, cost, crack, cripple, debasement, deface, defile, demagogic, depreciation, deprivation, destruction, deterioration, detriment, devastation, dirty, discolor, disfigure, disintegrate, dismantle, dissentious, disservice, disturbance, evil, fade, gnaw, hardship, illness, impair, impairment, incapacitate, incendiary, infect, infliction, injury, knockout, lacerate, loss, maim, maltreat, mangle, mar, marring, mischief, mishap, mutilate, mutilation, outrage, pollute, pollution, price, rabble-rousing, ravage, reverse, rot, ruin, ruining, rust, scathe, scorch, smash, split, spoilage, stab, stain, stroke, suffering, tamper with, tarnish, tear, total, undermine, vitiate, waste, weaken, wear away, wreak havoc on, wreck, wreckage, wrecking, wrong

Antonyms

adorn, advantage, aid, allow, assist, beautify, benefit, bless, blessing, boon, brighten, build, building, clean, cleanliness, cleanse, color, combine, construction, create, creation, cure, decorate, development, enhance, favor, fix, fortune, giving, good, good fortune, good luck, goodness, grow, happiness, heal, health, help, honor, improve, improvement, kindness, mend, ornament, perfect, profit, protect, purification, purify, repair, reparation, schedule, set up, strengthen, virtue, wait

Cross references

injure harm spoil hurt smash up break dent scratch wound abuse accident adulteration adversity affliction amount bane bang up batter bill bleach blemish blight blow breakage bruise burn casualty catastrophe