Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with damage in American Collocation
damage
verb
transitive
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.
These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
badly
A hurricane badly damaged the theatre building.
slightly
The lifeboat was slightly damaged in a collision with a cruise ship.
permanently
Her eyesight was irreparably damaged by this delay in diagnosis.
deliberately
Anyone who wilfully damages or destroys a tree is guilty of an offence.
not deliberately
If your item is accidentally damaged we’ll repair or replace it.
easily
It is an environment that can easily damage professional confidence.
affecting someone’s mind
The ordeal has left her psychologically damaged.
affecting an object or someone’s body
It is not possible for a virus to physically damage a computer’s processor or hard drive.
physically
Helping people to live comfortably without damaging the environment of their surroundings.
not physically
In the last few weeks a boy wrote to the newspaper saying that unhelpful teachers were damaging his prospects of success in exams.