Damaging

Definition

damage / 'dæmÇdʒ / n ၁။ [U] ~ (to sth) (က) အပ်က္အစီး။ ထိခိုက္မႈ။ 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) ပ်က္စီးမႈအတိုင္းအတာ။ အပ်က္။ Let's take a look at the damage. ၂။ damages [pl] ေလ်ာ္ေၾကး။ နစ္နာေၾကး။ He sued the company and won £ 5 000 (in) damages. v ပ်က္စီးေစသည္။ ဖ်က္ဆီးသည္။ 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] ႏိုင္ငံေရးအ႐ႈပ္ေတာ္ပံု စသည္ ထိခိုက္မႈ ပိုမိုမက်ယ္ျပန္႔သြားေစရန္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းတားဆီးျခင္း။ ❏ damaging adj ~(to sth) ထိခိုက္နစ္နာေစေသာ။ damaging chemicals ❍ make potentially damaging allegations ❍ How damaging do you think this will be to the Democratic Party? ❏ what's the damage? [ IDM ] ( infml) ဘယ္ေလာက္က်ပါ သလဲ။ Thanks for fixing the car— what's the damage?

Examples

1. Mr Charlton surveyed the damage caused by the bulldozer.
2. [damage to] : Damage to the building could take six months to repair.
3. [do damage] : No damage had been done
4. and we pushed the van back onto the road.
5. [suffer damage] : The house suffered only superficial damage in the fire.
6. [serious/severe/extensive damage] : A fire had caused serious damage to their flat.
7. [permanent/irreparable/irreversible damage] : Mining in the area was doing irreparable damage to the environment.
8. [brain/liver/nerve damage] : A new drug to treat nerve damage
9. [storm/flood/fire/bomb damage] : Experts have been assessing the level of flood damage.
10. Many traumatic events may be overcome without lasting damage.
11. [damage to] : The damage to the bank’s image is extremely serious.
12. [untold damage] : The revelations caused untold damage to his political reputation.
13. [pay damages] : Mrs Owen was ordered to pay damages of £6
14. 000.
15. [award/grant (someone) damages] : The jury awarded damages of over $9 million to the victims.
16. [seek/demand damages] : Brown is seeking damages of $1
17. 500 for each day of his incarceration.
18. [be denied/refused damages] : The man was refused damages on the grounds that he had suffered embarrassment but not distress.
19. [obtain damages] : The injured party needs to prove the extent of the harm in order to obtain damages.