Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
chipped \chipped\ adj. having a small piece broken off; as, a chipped tooth.
Wiktionary
1 having a chip (small piece) or chips missing 2 (context automotive English) (''no comparative or superlative'') having had the engine management system upgraded, usually to increase power v
(en-past of: chip)
WordNet
See chip
n. a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye" [syn: bit, flake, fleck, scrap]
a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line
a piece of dried bovine dung [syn: cow chip, cow dung, buffalo chip]
a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat [syn: crisp, potato chip, Saratoga chip]
a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something [syn: check]
a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling [syn: poker chip]
electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit [syn: microchip, micro chip, silicon chip]
a low running approach shot [syn: chip shot]
the act of chipping something [syn: chipping, splintering]
v. break off (a piece from a whole); "Her tooth chipped" [syn: chip off, come off, break away, break off]
cut a nick into [syn: nick]
play a chip shot
form by chipping; "They chipped their names in the stone"
break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth" [syn: knap, cut off, break off]
adj. having a small piece broken off; "a chipped tooth"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "chipped".
Her head remained still, her eyes fixed upon the house of the Avellanos, whose chipped pilasters, broken cornices, the whole degradation of dignity was hidden now by the gathering dusk of the street.
The end was chipped square as neatly as a skilled man could have done with a broadaxe and unlimited time, but Sharina had seen the Archai use no tools save their own forelimbs.
He concludes that there is a complete similitude between many of the chipped flints from Cantal and the classic specimens from the best-known Palaeolithic sites.
At times we would pass an ancient lodge, and through a gap in the trees would come a glimpse of chipped crowstep gable.
They chipped some interesting mats of yellow, stinking extremophile bacteria and netted a few specimens of a small spider that skittered across the algae-clogged pools, but that was it.
It can be scraped from the inside of the container, chipped or scraped from a block of flavored ice, made in a crusher, or produced in an ice-cream machine.
Jondalar picked up his hammerstone, an oval stone, dented and chipped from use, that fit comfortably in his hand, and began knocking off the balance of the chalky cortex in preparation for working it.
I took my digging knife and chipped a piece from the block with reckless haste, dropped it into my mortar, and smashed it into granules with a few quick jabs of the pestle.
Toe tapping the chipped linoleum, he pushed the basket and beer mugs aside and went for broke.
Their reward for enduring a considerable wait would be chipped bowls full of a perpetually simmering, nondenominational stew: cabbage hunks, runted spuds, and bitter carrots mixed with tough cubes of jerked meat, beans, and random corn kernels.
He recalled the pensions he and Jenny had stayed in when they first arrived, over a year ago: the faded and unmatched wallpaper, the dusty bric-a-brac, the chipped china, the hinges crying for oil.
His fingers sought its rough, bony knuckles, recognized the chipped, spoonlike nails.
When Micah started tossing wood from the sled to the top of the pile by the sugarhouse wall, Griffin chipped right in.
We had lunch off chipped blue willowware plates at a table by the windows in the small bare living room of the beach cottage.
He knew what a sacrifice the offering on the chipped blue willowware plate was.