Synonyms of damage
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Another word for damage is hurt. Other synonyms of damage are destroy, harm, wound, abuse and wreck.
Synonyms and similar words for damage
verbTo impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
- harmTo damage, hurt, or injure something, usually an inanimate object.
- injureTo wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
- abuseTo injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
- bewoundTo wound all over; cover or afflict with wounds.
- do damage to
- do for UKTo doom; to bring about the demise of someone; to injure or harm someone.
- do illTo harm, to injure.
- do violence toTo gravely harm.
- harrowTo break or tear, as if with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate.
- hurtTo cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
- maulTo savage; to cause serious physical wounds.
- put someone in hospital UKTo injure (someone) to the point that they need serious medical attention.
- scaith ScotlandTo injure; to wound.
- scatheTo harm or injure (someone or something) physically.
- wet slangTo kill or seriously injure.
- woundTo hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
- destroyTo damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
- annihilate
- aerosolize
- atomize
- bewreckTo wreck completely; ruin; destroy.
- blot out
- blotto
- dash
- decompose
- demolish
- desolate
- devastate
- diffuse
- disintegrate
- disperse
- dissolve
- eliminate
- eradicate
- erase
- exterminate
- extinguish
- extirpate
- fuck vulgar
- harry
- jazz
- lay wasteTo completely destroy, especially of a geographical area or region.
- level
- liquidate
- nuke
- obliterate
- overturn
- pull down
- pulverizeAmerican and Oxford British spelling of pulverise.
- raze
- ravage
- remove
- ruin
- ruinate
- stamp out
- total
- subvert
- unbreed figuratively
- unexist
- unmakeTo destroy or take apart; to cause (a made article) to lose its nature.
- uproot
- wasteTo damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into...
- wipe out
- wipe off
- wreckTo destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
- annoy archaicTo molest; to harm; to injure.
- damnify obsoleteTo damage physically; to injure.
- dere UK, archaicTo hurt; harm; injure; wound.
- forwork archaicTo do wrong to; injure; scathe.
- grieve archaicTo harm.
- mayhem archaicTo violently inflict injury on (someone); to injure, to wound.
- misdo archaicTo do evil; to commit misdeeds.
- vulnerate archaicTo wound, cause to become vulnerable.
- benothing obsolete, rareTo reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- fordo obsolete
- overthrow rare
- race obsolete
- ravel obsolete
Meaning of damage
- noun Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
- noun Cost or expense.
- verb To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: damage (page history and authors) and the entries of the words listed. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws grouped the synonyms and antonyms by meaning and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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