DAMAGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does damaged mean? 

• DAMAGED (adjective)
  The adjective DAMAGED has 2 senses:

1. harmed or injured or spoiled

2. being unjustly brought into disrepute

  Familiarity information: DAMAGED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAMAGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Harmed or injured or spoiled

Context example:

the storm left a wake of badly damaged buildings

Similar:

battered; beat-up; beaten-up (damaged by blows or hard usage)

bedraggled; broken-down; derelict; dilapidated; ramshackle; tatterdemalion; tumble-down (in deplorable condition)

bent; crumpled; dented (of metal e.g.)

broken; busted (out of working order ('busted' is an informal substitute for 'broken'))

broken-backed (having the spine damaged)

hurt; weakened (damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value)

knocked-out (damaged)

riddled ((often followed by 'with') damaged throughout by numerous perforations or holes)

storm-beaten (damaged by storm)

Also:

blemished (marred by imperfections)

broken (physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split)

destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)

impaired (diminished in strength, quality, or utility)

injured (harmed)

Antonym:

undamaged (not harmed or spoiled; sound)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Being unjustly brought into disrepute

Synonyms:

damaged; discredited

Context example:

her damaged reputation

Similar:

disreputable (lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance)

 Context examples 

Had some damaged photographs, said to be fakes.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The type of problem you have and how bad it is depends on which part of your brain is damaged and how much damage there is.

(Aphasia, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

This gene plays a role in the degradation of oxidatively-damaged proteins in living cells.

(APEH Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Over time, a swollen joint can become severely damaged.

(Arthritis, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

Surgical reconstruction or replacement of all or part of a malformed, diseased, degenerated, or otherwise damaged joint.

(Arthroplasty, NCI Thesaurus)

An intermediate cutaneous fibrohistiocytic neoplasm, characterized by pleomorphic spindle cells, usually affecting the actinic-damaged skin of the elderly.

(Atypical Fibroxanthoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Atinumab binds to reticulon-4, stimulating neurite outgrowth, which may prevent neuronal damage or may facilitate the regeneration of damaged neurons.

(Atinumab, NCI Thesaurus)

It blocks the action of certain enzymes involved in cell growth and the repair of DNA damaged by some anticancer drugs.

(Amuvatinib, NCI Dictionary)

"We're just fixing what has been damaged over the last half-century to push them back to where they were, taste-wise. We can make the supermarket tomato taste noticeably better."

(Scientists develop genetic path to tastier tomatoes, NSF)

This allele, which encodes nonhomologous end-joining factor 1 protein, plays a role in the mediation of both V(D)J recombination and the repair of damaged DNA.

(NHEJ1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)