The Collaborative International Dictionary
damaged \damaged\ (d[a^]m"[asl]jd), adj.
changed so as to reduce value, function, or other desirable trait; -- usually not used of persons. Opposite of undamaged. [Narrower terms: battered, beat-up, beaten-up, bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound; bent, crumpled, dented; blasted, rent, ripped, torn; broken-backed; burned-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate), burnt-out(prenominal), burnt out(predicate); burst, ruptured; corroded; cracked, crackled, crazed; defaced, marred; hurt, weakened; knocked-out(prenominal), knocked out; mangled, mutilated; peeling; scraped, scratched; storm-beaten] Also See blemished, broken, damaged, destroyed, impaired, injured, unsound.
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Rendered imperfect by impairing the integrity of some part, or by breaking. Opposite of unbroken. [Narrower terms: busted; chipped; cracked; crumbled, fragmented; crushed, ground; dissolved; fractured; shattered, smashed, splintered; split; unkept, violated] Also See: damaged, imperfect, injured, unsound.
Syn: broken.
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being unjustly brought into disrepute; as, her damaged reputation.
Syn: discredited.
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made to appear imperfect; -- especially of reputation; as, the senator's seriously damaged reputation.
Syn: besmirched, flyblown, spotted, stained, sullied, tainted, tarnished.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having a broken back 2 (context nautical of a ship English) drooping at each end because of a damaged spine 3 decrepit, weakened
WordNet
adj. having the spine damaged; "a broken-backed book"; "a broken-backed old horse"
(of a horse) having bones of the back united by a bony growth
(of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end [syn: hogged]
Usage examples of "broken-backed".
He pointed to a broken-backed ruin which stood on the point of land that jutted out onto the waters of the lake, a crumbling structure slowly blackening with time.
By the Dead Man's Gate they found Aurea and two of the young sisters waiting with a mule, a broken-backed nag of a mare, and a handcart in which the young brothers had already laid Sister Rosvita most tenderly, cushioning her on a blanket and covering her with another.
His light found a small frame house, clapboard sides, wooden-shingled, an old house of the twenties, and Dan ziger said, "McNaughton's hou-" He went silent because the trembling white circle had steadied on the low porch roof, caved in, broken-backed over the stump of the post that had once helped support it.