unspecified damages
damage
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈdæmɪdʒ/us
to harm someone or something in a way that makes them less successful:
The Chancellor is being urged not to take steps that could damage Britain's competitiveness.
They feared that public knowledge of the deal might damage them.
seriously/severely/irreparably damage sb/sthHe is suing his colleague on the grounds that her accusations severely damaged his reputation.
to physically harm something:
People who are under-insured won't be able to rebuild if their homes are damaged by a hurricane.
seriously/severely/irreparably damage sthThe fire completely destroyed five buildings and severely damaged several more.

Examples of damage

damage
Preconditioning with bright light evokes a protective response against light damage in the rat retina.
Both suffer when the time available is reduced, but an appropriate development methodology can in both cases minimize the damage.
Since increased canopy reduces the kinetic energy with which raindrops hit the ground, the damage to soil from rainfall is reduced.
Older knowledge, perhaps because it has been relocated to regions that are damaged by the disease process, does not fare as well.
The result of this damage is that there are now dead processors scattered at random in the system.
The diffraction limit for a single image may decrease, although higher resolution datasets can still be collected due to the decreased radiation damage rate.
Only guts that were removed without damage were used in further analysis.
Structural damage to each tree was recorded: trunk snap, branch damage, bark damage, or a leaning bole.
This tends to be true for low rates of damage.
In short, early damage to the left (or right) hemisphere when there is normal plasticity tends to lead to recovery with no longlasting gross deficits.
Persistent psychological disturbance was related not so much to personal loss as to the degree of damage suffered by the community as a whole.
Large-sized pioneer species dominating early successional stands suffered greater damage and mortality, but these same species were observed as seedlings in newly formed canopy gaps.
Residents who did not illuminate their houses or accede to other crowd demands were fortunate if broken glass was the only damage they suffered.
As we have seen, compensator y damages certainly are not sufficient.
However, what ultimately is required here is a demonstration of localized damage correlated with modality-specific deficits.
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Collocations withdamage

damage

These are words often used in combination with damage.

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accidental damage
The neurologist observes that accidental damage to the visual cortex at the back of the head can impair arithmetic calculation.
actual damage
The minimum compensation allowed by law for ruined bricks was insufficient to cover actualdamage caused by new machinery.
amount of damage
Therefore, one may also expect the amountofdamage to the respective crop to affect the group probabilities.
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