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Battered vs Damage - What's the difference?

battered | damage |

As verbs the difference between battered and damage

is that battered is (batter) while damage is to impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.

As an adjective battered

is beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered, beat-up.

As a noun damage is

injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.

battered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (batter)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered, beat-up.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
    • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered -looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.}}
  • Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up.
  • (label) Coated with batter.

    • damage

    English

    (wikipedia damage)

    Noun

  • Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
    • The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.
  • (slang) Cost or expense.
    • "What's the damage ?" he asked the waiter.

    Verb

    (damag)
  • To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
    • Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
  • * Clarendon
    • He came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.