I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a damaging/crippling strike (=having a bad effect on an industry)
▪ The company now faces the prospect of a crippling strike.
accidental damage
▪ Buy an insurance policy that covers accidental damage.
an earthquake destroys/damages sth
▪ The earthquake completely destroyed all the buildings on the island.
badly damaged
▪ Both cars were badly damaged in the accident.
be beyond repair/be damaged beyond repair (=be so badly damaged that it cannot be repaired)
▪ Unfortunately the engine is beyond repair.
brain damage
▪ Potts suffered severe brain damage in the crash.
burn/damage your skin
▪ Strong sunlight can damage your skin.
cause damage
▪ A fire had broken out and caused severe damage to the roof.
compensatory damages
▪ She was awarded a large sum in compensatory damages.
criminal damageBritish English (= damaging someone's property illegally)
▪ He was charged with criminal damage to his boss's car.
crop damage
▪ The storms caused crop damage across the country.
damage an industry
▪ Financial scandals have damaged the industry in recent years.
damage sb’s reputation
▪ She wouldn’t do anything to damage her family’s reputation.
damage your health
▪ There is no doubt that smoking can seriously damage your health.
damage your image
▪ Has this scandal damaged the company’s image?
damage/destroy a habitat
▪ Widening the road will uproot trees and damage wildlife habitat.
damaged...ligaments
▪ damaged ankle ligaments
damage/harm to the environment
▪ A lot of chemicals used in industry cause harm to the environment.
do damage (to sth/sb)
▪ A mistake like that can do a lot of damage to your career.
environmental damage
▪ the environmental damage caused by opencast mining
fatally flawed/weakened/damaged etc
▪ Bolton’s idea was fatally flawed.
frost damage (=damage to plants, caused by frost)
▪ Some crop regions may have suffered frost damage.
harm/damage the economy (=make it less successful)
▪ Sanctions have damaged the economy.
harm/damage the environment
▪ The government insists that the dam will not harm the environment.
harmful/damaging (=causing harm or damage to something or someone)
▪ the harmful effects of drinking too much alcohol
▪ Some of the effects can be quite damaging.
incalculable harm/damage/suffering etc
▪ The outbreak of hostilities will cause incalculable misery.
inspect the damage
▪ I got out of the car to inspect the damage.
insure (sth/sb) against loss/damage/theft/sickness etc
▪ It is wise to insure your property against storm damage.
lower/damage morale
▪ We need to avoid damaging people's morale.
negative/damaging (=having a bad effect)
▪ The expansion of the airport would have a negative impact on the environment.
punitive damages (=money paid to someone who is the victim of a crime)
▪ The jury awarded punitive damages .
recover damages
▪ He was entitled to recover damages from the defendants.
repair the damage
▪ Neil tried to repair the damage that his statements had caused.
seek compensation/damages (=ask for money because of something bad you have suffered)
▪ The other two may seek compensation for wrongful imprisonment.
serious damage
▪ The explosion sparked a fire which caused serious damage to their flat.
seriously damaged
▪ His reputation had been seriously damaged.
severe damage
▪ The blast caused severe damage to the surrounding buildings.
severely damaged
▪ The hotel was severely damaged by fire last November.
sth destroys/damages a crop
▪ When disease destroyed the crop, famine followed.
sth is damaged/destroyed by fire
▪ The school was badly damaged by fire.
storm damage
▪ A lot of buildings suffered storm damage.
sue for damages (=in order to get money)
▪ The railway may sue for damages because of loss of revenue.
suffer damage
▪ The U.S. ship suffered no damage.
suffered...brain damage
▪ Potts suffered severe brain damage in the crash.
undermine/damage credibility
▪ A number of factors undermine the credibility of these statistics.
undermine/damage/weaken sb’s confidence (=make someone have less confidence)
▪ The situation in the US was undermining foreign confidence in the dollar.
undo the damage
▪ We cannot undo the damage of a lifetime in only 30 days.
untold damage
▪ The rumours will do untold damage to his reputation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
accidental
▪ Yet another option is to buy a policy which itself covers accidental damage without the need for buying a separate extension.
▪ Most expensive of all is an all-risks policy which also gives wide cover against accidental damage.
▪ Personal Liability ... Up to £500,000 To cover your legal liability for accidental injury to third parties or accidental damage to their property.
▪ The pipes or cables must require repair or replacement due to accidental damage not due to wear and tear.
▪ All pipes should be bracketed to avoid accidental damage.
▪ The cost of tracing the damage is covered provided there has been accidental damage to the pipes or cables.
▪ We found it was more useful in stopping the debarking of trees or accidental damage to shrubs.
considerable
▪ All these may do considerable damage to his reputation.
▪ It could do considerable damage if it happened to hit some of the more fragile equipment.
▪ Stories were told about how they had actually done considerable damage to some visiting fans when situations had got out of hand.
▪ No warships were present, but considerable damage was inflicted on cargo vessels, with which the harbor was jammed.
▪ Cannons can cause considerable damage on your deep ranks too, but this is less worrying.
▪ The attacks caused considerable damage but no injuries.
▪ All the attacks caused considerable damage, but no one was injured.
criminal
▪ The 31-year-old man, suspected of causing criminal damage, had been arrested at Sheerness, Kent.
▪ One might well ask how important the element of criminal damage is to the rationale of the aggravated offence.
▪ The official was convicted of criminal damage for ramming the craft with a motorboat, then whacking it with a shovel.
▪ He's admitted shoplifting, theft and criminal damage but denies two alleged assaults on police.
▪ I was in a bad way at that time, I felt really depressed, so I went round causing criminal damage.
▪ Are the miscreants aware that they are guilty of trespass and criminal damage?
environmental
▪ We will tackle the problem of congestion and environmental damage by enabling local authorities to provide better quality transport.
▪ Socallration losses but also tremendous environmental damage.
▪ Wesley Smith Opponents say it's a policy doomed to fail - creating massive environmental damage.
▪ When that happens, the result is environmental damage and human suffering.
▪ Immediate improvements in the rail network, allowing more movement of goods and passengers by rail and less environmental damage.
▪ But the precise size of the spill and the incumbent environmental damage remained unclear Saturday.
▪ Some items are harmless in themselves, but cause enormous environmental damage to make. 3.
▪ Local self-sufficiency is further hindered by widespread environmental damage.
extensive
▪ This caused a violent explosion resulting in extensive damage.
▪ With more extensive damage he will just repeat the proverb-one example of what is called concrete thinking.
▪ More frequent and more extensive damage is evident on all the subsequent categories.
▪ You may not know how extensive the damage is until warmer weather.
▪ There is an undocumented belief that these patients have a very high stricture recurrence rate because of extensive oesophageal damage and fibrosis.
▪ Tisaby could not say exactly how many windows were broken in the building nor how extensive the damage was in dollar terms.
▪ According to Moscow radio reports there followed a renewed rampage by rioters through the city resulting in extensive damage.
▪ In fact Etruria was hit by incendiaries several times, but thankfully survived without extensive damage.
great
▪ I have acknowledged the great damage done to the hon. and learned Member for Leicester, West.
▪ The greatest damage is in the Adirondacks, the next greatest in Vermont, and the next New Hampshire.
▪ But the greatest potential damage to Rangers' hopes of victory would be the loss of McCoist with a calf injury.
▪ With government number-crunchers idle so long, no one is sure just how great the damage will be.
▪ Furthermore, other ecosystems have suffered greater damage than the Amazon.
▪ He let me know of my flaws only after they had wrought a great deal of damage.
▪ You have to cause a great deal of damage to a Troll to stop it regenerating.
▪ In particular, extreme frosts below about - 20 to - 25 to - y reported to cause great damage to mature trees.
irreparable
▪ Why should his death, however tragic, threaten irreparable damage to an institutional structure of such proven strength?
▪ In truth, the society's decision will cause irreparable damage to the cause of music.
▪ At that stage they were completely outweighed by the threat of irreparable damage to her health and risk to her life.
▪ Would they ever be able to extricate themselves from it without irreparable damage being done?
▪ The Stalinist phase did all but irreparable damage to the international reputation of Soviet historiography.
▪ Parking the trailer Simply parking the trailer with the stands firmly down will not prevent really strong winds from doing irreparable damage.
▪ We are only one generation away from causing irreparable damage to the Earth's biosphere.
▪ Numerous environmental campaigners have alleged that Fisons's peat-cutting operations are causing irreparable damage to the fragile habitat of lowland peat-bogs.
irreversible
▪ We are looking forward to expert advice in your column before we do ourselves irreversible brain damage.
▪ This has done severe, irreversible damage to our identity.
▪ Prolonged fixation often lead to irreversible damage as muscles atrophied.
▪ A third priority is to stop irreversible damage to the natural environment.
▪ Conservationists however, claim that many licenses must be immediately revoked to avoid irreversible damage.
▪ Second, if the condition goes unrecognised, or is incorrectly treated, irreversible damage may occur.
▪ As a consequence some have suffered irreversible damage to their health.
minor
▪ Later another partially ignited device was found in a second furniture shop but caused only minor damage.
▪ Here in Scituate, the storm caused minor damage, flooding streets and knocking down power lines.
▪ Up to 200 others suffered minor damage.
▪ In some states, no-fault insurance has made it easier for the citizen to collect for minor collison damage in automobile wrecks.
▪ There was only minor structural damage to roofs and chimneys.
▪ Historic Curry Village also escaped flooding, the only minor damage inflicted by a rock slide.
▪ Torquay Deaf Club suffered some minor damage, but nothing which could not be easily repaired.
▪ Such acts often involve minor damage to property or disruption of certain routine social events.
permanent
▪ But he said Cherie should not suffer permanent damage if cured soon.
▪ No permanent damage was done to the substation, officials said.
▪ He started to have fits and he suffered permanent damage.
▪ But if the artery stays plugged up for something like 15 minutes or more, permanent damage occurs.
▪ Too much strain on the relaxin-softened tissue can cause permanent damage.
▪ Even if you suffer permanent damage but are still able to work, this is the only way around it.
▪ The order to create wealth can never justify permanent damage to the balance of nature.
physical
▪ The offline operator is responsible for mounting and dismounting the offline media and inspecting media items for physical damage.
▪ Angelakos, 76 and retired since 1990, says the physical damage and emotional effects of his encounter have faded.
▪ They are convicted of physical harm or damage infrequently and they are in general petty and trivial offenders.
▪ In point of physical damage inflicted, it was true enough that the raid did not accomplish a great deal.
▪ The tortious principle gives protection to the ultimate consumer of a product where the product has caused physical damage.
▪ But a serious accident can cause far more than purely physical damage.
▪ Generally speaking, there is no tort action where the product is merely defective and has not caused any physical damage.
▪ But she had suffered no physical damage or identifiable psychological illness.
potential
▪ But the greatest potential damage to Rangers' hopes of victory would be the loss of McCoist with a calf injury.
▪ The market has a mechanism for ensuring even that the potential risk of damage to the environment can be costed.
▪ The potential economic damage is not restricted to arable farming.
psychological
▪ In it we can see reflected the ecological, psychological, spiritual damage and the massive human waste of this war.
▪ You should also be aware of the psychological damage you are capable of doing to yourself.
▪ The scourge had abated, but psychological damage had been done, which was not so readily repaired.
▪ Men can be passive without grave psychological damage only if the women are passive also.
▪ On this occasion City accepted with relish the chances which came their way and inflicted serious psychological damage on their dejected opponents.
punitive
▪ The judgment reflected a refusal by the court to limit punitive damage awards.
▪ In exchange, the companies would be protected from punitive damage awards on past misconduct but not future misconduct.
serious
▪ She suffered serious brain damage and was retired from her job on medical grounds.
▪ Unlike Washington state, there were no reports of injuries or serious damage.
▪ Nothing around us spoke of serious damage.
▪ Much more rarely, Candida can invade the eye, kidney, liver or brain, doing serious damage.
▪ The Nimbus was undamaged but the K8 had one wing severed at about half-span as well as other serious damage.
▪ Everyone gets very wet but it is worth while getting soaked if it saves even one glider from serious damage.
▪ Mr Quinn, 55, suffered 33 rib fractures, serious damage to internal organs and severe head and neck injuries.
▪ On this occasion City accepted with relish the chances which came their way and inflicted serious psychological damage on their dejected opponents.
severe
▪ That is nothing short of irresponsibility, and inflicts severe damage on our democracy.
▪ A similar overdose left a second patient, Maureen Bateman, with severe heart damage.
▪ In 1970 he suffered severe brain damage in a road accident which effectively ended his career.
▪ Any creatures that breathe the surface air directly are subject to severe lung damage, lung edema, and death.
▪ It is likely that very severe environmental damage would be done if parts of this reserve were activated.
▪ The possible side effects are severe kidney damage.
▪ With less severe colonic damage, terra fullonica was able to prevent the occurrence of systemic endotoxaemia.
▪ Paralyzed muscles lost tone and became flaccid; with severe damage they further degenerated through shrinkage and atrophy.
structural
▪ Minor bombing incidents in Buenos Aires and Santiago caused little structural damage and nobody was reported to have been injured.
▪ And the occasional burst pipe can cause major structural damage rather quickly.
▪ No one was injured but the interchange was closed because of fears of major structural damage.
▪ But most people found only busy signals, as structural damage and call volume overwhelmed local phone systems.
▪ Offices of the Levi jeans company and the computer firm, Casio, were being checked yesterday for structural damage.
▪ More structural damage could be hidden, one reporter said to explain Seattle's largely unscathed appearance.
▪ It caused £1,500 million of structural damage to at least 35 buildings.
▪ There was only minor structural damage to roofs and chimneys.
untold
▪ Its regime - which Prince Philip believed would turn his sons into real men - had caused Charles untold misery and damage.
▪ Inaccurate information from an uninformed physician can cause untold damage to the best educational program.
▪ However, incorrect stretching can cause untold damage and even permanent injuries in extreme cases.
▪ They were already well within the shield zone and, had the barge been hostile, it could have inflicted untold damage.
▪ The slide seemed empty, yet its contents could do untold damage.
▪ On the contrary, said the voice, it could do his case untold damage.
▪ It could inflict untold damage if he were to break that trust and be indiscreet.
■ NOUN
award
▪ The judgment reflected a refusal by the court to limit punitive damage awards.
▪ That would afford him some shelter from some creditors but would not discharge these damage awards.
▪ In Milwaukee, numerous civil rights lawsuits led to monetary damage awards to victims of police actions.
▪ However, there were no reported cases of damage awards or sheriffs removed from office.
▪ In exchange, the companies would be protected from punitive damage awards on past misconduct but not future misconduct.
▪ Punitive damage awards often run into the millions of dollars, some-times hundreds of millions.
▪ Or, he can plead with the judge to cut the damage award.
▪ Fujisaki ordered the damage awards stayed for 10 days while post-trial motions are filed.
brain
▪ She suffered serious brain damage and was retired from her job on medical grounds.
▪ He came into this world pretty beaten up, with what they considered to be soft neurological brain damage.
▪ We are looking forward to expert advice in your column before we do ourselves irreversible brain damage.
▪ Over-consumption causes temporary brain damage, impaired vision and often results in prolonged vomiting.
▪ All have returned to normal without permanent damage, although hyponatremia occurring during surgery has resulted in death or permanent brain damage.
▪ In 1970 he suffered severe brain damage in a road accident which effectively ended his career.
▪ In extreme cases they can suffer brain damage or die.
claim
▪ This is not storm and should not be dealt with as a storm damage claim.
control
▪ Investors remained sceptical of Tory damage control and subsequent polls showing a closer race.
▪ It is more like ordinary political damage control.
▪ Clinton also proved to be a master of damage control on the so-called character issues.
▪ Calipari has spotted problems and implemented damage control.
▪ It felt good to have something important and challenging to keep one busy, even if it was damage control.
▪ Korten, 48, knows a lot about damage control.
fire
▪ There is a great deal of information available about fire damage to property, but little on diseases related to industrial work.
▪ Most of the fire damage was confined to the restaurant and several Fox offices.
▪ In Wagon Mound the kind of damage that needed to be foreseeable was fire damage.
▪ Explosions that occur at high enough altitudes will lay down severe shock and fire damage without the fireball ever contacting the ground.
▪ It sustained a lot of fire damage when the labs went up.
▪ Recent incidents include £2 million fire damage to Bellahouston Academy in Glasgow.
▪ In 1917 Mawson was commissioned to replan Salonika, following extensive fire damage.
▪ This was as near as they dared to approach to avoid the risk of fire damage to the vehicles.
flood
▪ The assistance comes from the Bellwin scheme which can be activated for emergency relief after exceptional storm or flood damage.
▪ Dickson -- with no garage and no basement -- reported no flood damage.
▪ I hope they will still claim that rain belongs to them when people put in insurance claims for flood damage.
▪ Schafer said late Monday he hoped damage assessments for public and private flood damage from other counties would be collected by Friday.
▪ She feared the bounds of her mind would burst and she would be swamped, her sanity irretrievable in the flood damage.
▪ Homeowners insurance does not cover flood damage.
frost
▪ Avoid an east-facing situation to prevent frost damage and cut back long growth immediately after flowering.
▪ The market lost its earlier gains on perceptions the coldest temperatures came in areas where previous frost damage forced an early harvest.
▪ This can then encourage rot to grow on timber, and may also result in frost damage to masonry in cold weather.
▪ In mild winters apples buds began to break soon after Christmas, leaving them vulnerable to frost damage.
▪ Service pipes can run the length of the house and may need insulating against frost damage where exposed.
ligament
▪ Flanker Len Dineen received a broken ankle, and no.8 Victor Donnelly knee ligament damage.
▪ He suffered ligament damage in his hand two weeks ago in Palm Springs that required cortisone shots.
▪ Meanwhile, defender Graham Hill, sidelined since the start of the season by knee ligament damage, has resumed full training.
▪ He at least was heartened that there was no ligament damage found.
▪ Thomas will also miss most of those matches after having his right ankle put in plaster to repair ligament damage.
▪ After the game, she tearfully spoke of possible ligament damage.
▪ Sterland has missed the whole season so far with ankle ligament damage.
▪ But the watching scout only saw 27-goal Erskine carried off with suspected knee ligament damage.
limitation
▪ In truth Gene probably believes that the forces of darkness are gathering, but he also believes in damage limitation.
▪ It was to be an ugly demonstration; damage limitation was not on the agenda.
▪ Its policy is damage limitation, not prevention.
▪ Alec Stewart's 102-ball 55 never smacked of more than damage limitation.
▪ But damage limitation is not perhaps the best way to manage an election campaign when you are in opposition.
▪ Franks was busily engaged in a damage limitation exercise in Washington.
▪ He started on a kind of-well - what Mum and I used to call one of his damage limitation exercises.
▪ Their interests will best be served by damage limitation, but Zhu may yet regret siding with them so quickly.
liver
▪ The role of genes encoding other alcohol metabolising enzymes in a genetic predisposition to alcoholic liver damage has yet to be explored.
▪ In high doses, vitamin A can cause brittle nails, hair loss, headaches and liver damage.
▪ These data suggest that the risk of liver damage is greatest in patients with active viral replication before operation.
▪ Trichloroethene, a probable human carcinogen, can cause liver damage and genetic mutations in both human and animal populations.
▪ Their liver damage is usually mild, dose dependent, and reversible when the drug is stopped.
▪ This also seems to be the mechanism of piroxicam induced liver damage.
▪ Methionine or an alternative drug, N-acetylcysteine, prevents liver damage by boosting the levels of glutathione.
▪ They claim that he removed healthy wombs and bungled routine operations, leaving them with bladder, kidney and liver damage.
property
▪ Pyro may also have a claim for his property damage.
▪ About eighty were injured, and most of the property damage was limited to broken windows and overturned cars.
▪ This principle is illustrated in relation to property damage by the following case.
▪ Thus began a series of violent public demonstrations that brought about severe property damage, bloodshed, and death.
▪ Some property damage was foreseeable and the fact that it was more extensive than might have been foreseen did not matter.
▪ No deaths were recorded, and property damage was limited.
▪ An obvious risk of property damage alone is insufficient for manslaughter, but may suffice for the driving offences.
▪ This is clearly narrower than property damage.
storm
▪ This is not storm and should not be dealt with as a storm damage claim.
▪ It must have been a pretty hefty bit of storm damage.
▪ Worldwide the insurance industry has lost US$56,000 million in the past two years from storm damage alone.
▪ At the time we were rushing from job to job repairing storm damage, and fortunately were both wearing rubber soled boots.
▪ Repair of storm damage, foreign debt repayments and aid to small businesses were to be funded from the 1988 tax surplus.
▪ There is no cover for storm damage to gates, hedges or fences.
▪ A spokesman for President Clinton said assessment teams were studying the storm damage.
tissue
▪ Left to their own devices, these free radicals cause tissue damage.
▪ With tissue damage and necrosis, the cells disintegrate and leak their contents into the blood.
▪ For the physician, it is a demand to identify the objective source of the tissue damage which provoked the subjective awareness.
▪ Others use magnetic resonance imaging, like those used to find tissue damage in humans, to detect explosives.
▪ Supposing the physician can find no tissue damage or that there is an inappropriate relation between objective fact and subjective complaint.
▪ Injury or tissue damage stimulates nerve impulses in specialised sensory fibres. 2.
▪ Is this not proof that the pain felt by normal subjects mirrors the nature, intensity and location of tissue damage?
▪ The aim is to minimise tissue damage and further movement could do just the opposite!
■ VERB
assess
▪ Forgetting the holidays temporarily, she headed out in her car to assess the damage for herself.
▪ State leaders will be assessing priorities today as damage inspection continues.
▪ Local traders met today to assess the damage.
▪ Mitchell trudged down the hall toward his corner office, detouring into the washroom to assess the damage to his hair.
▪ A spokesman for President Clinton said federal teams were still assessing the damage.
▪ The farmer stood back and scratched under his turban, assessing the damage to my vehicle.
▪ This is, however, the first study that also assesses gastroduodenal damage.
▪ Crandall, manager of the park, was waiting Monday for state officials to arrive to assess damage.
avoid
▪ To avoid further damage to sensitive ecosystems, sulphur and nitrogen oxide emissions must be cut by 90 percent.
▪ To avoid damage in a down market, buy and hold stocks of companies with long records of rising earnings and dividends.
▪ Suggestions that he could avoid the damage by protecting the wheat fields with electric fencing do not impress Mr Berry.
▪ But please hurry up if you want to avoid the nerve damage and deformity that result from long-term exposure to the germ.
▪ They are useful for getting into awkward spaces, avoiding damage to the work around them.
▪ Even a predator as powerful as a tiger wants to avoid risk of damage to itself.
▪ All pipes should be bracketed to avoid accidental damage.
▪ It is important to follow the manufacturer's instructions on the dilutions and immersion times to avoid damage.
cause
▪ Minor bombing incidents in Buenos Aires and Santiago caused little structural damage and nobody was reported to have been injured.
▪ The amount of radiation that would have been needed to be effective would have caused intolerable brain damage.
▪ Roll for each target to see if you cause damage.
▪ If the project would cause damage, then the developer would have to foot the bill himself.
▪ Threadworms do not usually cause any long term damage.
▪ While the lasers could do the job, they would cause too much damage to the healthy tissue, he said.
▪ But evidence is mounting that Ecstasy can cause permanent brain damage.
▪ Inaccurate information from an uninformed physician can cause untold damage to the best educational program.
cover
▪ Yet another option is to buy a policy which itself covers accidental damage without the need for buying a separate extension.
▪ Homeowners insurance does not cover flood damage.
▪ Theft is excluded but this policy would cover damage caused by attempted theft. 3.
▪ Pipes and drains which are blocked are not accidentally damaged and the cost of clearing the blockage is not covered.
▪ Our marine insurance covers such damage or loss after the first £320.
▪ Ascertain if there is any other insurance in force to cover the loss or damage.
▪ If your Homecover policy covers the damage then the cost of the repairs will be paid when settling the claim.
do
▪ She remains more of a mystery, so a deepening scandal has the potential to do more political damage.
▪ If he perceives your body language wrong, he can do major damage.
▪ What's more, it's not just a build-up of toxic chemicals that can do the damage.
▪ It does moral damage by encouraging prejudice within children regardless of their color.
▪ Plus their hands are simply too tiny to ball into fists that will do any real damage.
▪ It would have taken only three or four weeks for the hungry larvae to do this damage, he said.
▪ Organization replaces individual authority; no individual is powerful enough to do much damage.
▪ And if you try and get up now, you will do yourself damage.
inflict
▪ However, it is possible for other war engines and large monsters to inflict damage on them.
▪ The law increased the penalties for those convicted of inflicting racially motivated damage on a religious building.
▪ Those with a taste for battle choose their weapons and most of them look capable of inflicting real damage.
▪ The articles are designed to inflict damage on Labour, but I doubt that they will.
▪ He's in a position to inflict major damage, and he does.
▪ Against an immobile target, such as a wall, even the early cannon could inflict quite considerable damage.
▪ But Tory rebels still remain confident they can win the day and in doing so inflict irreparable damage on the treaty.
▪ Most horses panic, and then they can inflict terrible damage upon themselves.
inflicted
▪ This time Dennis claimed hits on a destroyer while Osborne inflicted damage on a supply ship.
▪ Adam Gilchrist had inflicted much of the damage.
▪ On this occasion City accepted with relish the chances which came their way and inflicted serious psychological damage on their dejected opponents.
▪ They were already well within the shield zone and, had the barge been hostile, it could have inflicted untold damage.
inspect
▪ But neither the princess nor the police driver got out to inspect the damage.
▪ Thursday, on the Morning After, we went to the New Garden to inspect the damage.
▪ She picked up her suitcase and made her way along the aisle, pausing to inspect the damage to her legs.
▪ Loi, when he came to inspect the damage, was confident.
▪ The five then went into Meehan's flat to inspect the damage.
▪ I head for the cove to inspect the damage.
▪ I pulled on oilskins, clambered forward, and inspected the damage by the light of a hand torch.
▪ The Multnomah County Courthouse was evacuated and employees were gathered in a park across the street while officials inspected for damage.
limit
▪ Effective cell-mediated immunity is central to limiting viral damage.
▪ Gingrich and the group were discussing how to limit the political damage Gingrich would face for admitting to having broken House rules.
▪ All of them at least as concerned to limit the damage as to assist the inquiry.
▪ Rex raised the alarm, and the entire crew rushed forward in the rain and darkness to try to limit the damage.
▪ Efforts must be made to limit damage when things go wrong in the classroom.
▪ Although bank officials are seeking to limit the damage, the news will add to pressure for further cuts in borrowing costs.
▪ The object of their game was to limit the damage.
▪ After his return in 1471 Edward tried to limit the damage to the Stanleys by modifying Gloucester's grant.
prevent
▪ The lighting of the galleries has also been transformed and computer controlled blinds fitted to prevent damage from excessive levels of daylight.
▪ Eggs are packed in cartons with the large end uppermost to prevent mechanical damage to the egg.
▪ In order to prevent damage to a lawn, they can be trained to use a flowerbed.
▪ The usual preparation with Lugol may not prevent thyroid damage by I-MIBG.
▪ Within the home environment too, training is important to prevent damage to furniture and soiling of carpets, for example.
▪ Avoid an east-facing situation to prevent frost damage and cut back long growth immediately after flowering.
▪ It goes without saying that you should practise safe upgrading by observing all precautions to prevent damage by static electricity.
▪ Early diagnosis and treatment prevents brain damage and liver cirrhosis.
reduce
▪ The plan is intended to protect the environment and reduce damage from natural disasters.
▪ Heating oil is highly toxic in the short term, but it evaporates quickly, reducing the long-term damage.
▪ They have bevelled edges to reduce on-site damage and make it easier to work with.
▪ The new design should be a better fit, and so reduce the damage to the bone after an implant.
▪ Food is shared to reduce risks of damage in fighting and to prevent interference with eating.
▪ Poisoning rats with warfarin reduces the damage but is costly and possibly damaging to the environment.
▪ Careful handling is necessary to reduce mechanical damage.
repair
▪ And it is costing the company another £16 million to repair the damage to the 1,000 kiosks plundered.
▪ Now he was scheduled to undergo a second surgery the next day to repair nerve and disc damage in his spine.
▪ This continues, but at least now efforts are also being made to prevent further pollution and even repair some of the damage.
▪ When the trade deadline passed last week, Krause did nothing, again, to repair the damage he chose.
▪ But he is determined to repair the damage when he and wife Cherie meet Mr Bush tonight.
▪ He wanted to repair the damage done to him and his family.
▪ But part of her did want to repair some of the damage they had done to each other.
▪ He can not repair the damage he will not acknowledge.
result
▪ Under these circumstances, the chain may cause bruising, and can even result in damage to the nerves unless adjusted.
▪ This caused a violent explosion resulting in extensive damage.
▪ Healing with a launch failure A failure very close to the ground frequently results in damage.
▪ There is some evidence that low salinities induced by freshwater may result in physiological damage to corals.
▪ This pinpointed the main problem ara - non-asbestos work resulting in damage to asbestos-containing insulation material.
▪ They maintained that David's death had resulted from damage done by forceps before his birth.
▪ According to Moscow radio reports there followed a renewed rampage by rioters through the city resulting in extensive damage.
▪ This can then encourage rot to grow on timber, and may also result in frost damage to masonry in cold weather.
suffer
▪ She suffered serious brain damage and was retired from her job on medical grounds.
▪ He suffered ligament damage in his hand two weeks ago in Palm Springs that required cortisone shots.
▪ Rouen Cathedral suffered serious war-time damage in 1944, but is now largely restored.
▪ Even if you suffer permanent damage but are still able to work, this is the only way around it.
▪ Either Alice or Bert could bring such a claim if they suffered damage.
▪ Two other fire trucks suffered heat damage, while three other vehicles experienced minor harm.
▪ Furthermore, other ecosystems have suffered greater damage than the Amazon.
▪ Each released two bombs that would be slowed by fins so the bomber could make its escape without suffering any damage.
sustain
▪ The basement of the house had sustained heavy damage and part of the ceiling on the top floor had collapsed.
▪ The medieval tower of the town hall of Foligno, near Assisi, also sustained further damage.
▪ If chargers move through Fanatics they have not already encountered then they sustain more damage as they hit the deranged Goblins.
▪ Squash and green beans sustained the worst damage, with 50 percent 70 percent, respectively, of these crops lost.
▪ His home sustained some damage, but mostly remained intact.
▪ Though still standing, the basilica itself has sustained terrible damage.
▪ As for the Tirpitz, her crew received a considerable scare but the ship itself sustained no damage.
▪ Both ships sustained major damage, but no one was injured or killed.
undo
▪ You have a chance maybe to undo some of the damage that man has caused our family.
▪ Maybe there was still time to undo the damage?
▪ She had to see Ratchette and try and undo some of the damage that had been done there.
▪ We certainly can not undo the damage of a lifetime in only thirty days, Sam.
▪ But it is not too late to undo that damage.
▪ Cotton, with an assist from this public-spirited pillar, has done his best to undo the damage caused by the hogwash.
▪ There wasn't any way Evelyn could undo the damage.
▪ It would be a cruel hoax because City would not be able to undo the damage these young people had suffered.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
collateral damage
▪ It could also be that collateral damage from a program crash has changed the setting.
▪ Our helplessness, outrage and fear were not collateral damage.
▪ This collateral damage to otherwise healthy bits of tooth may in the end have to be dealt with itself.
wilful damage/disobedience/exaggeration etc
▪ He then smashed up his cell and began his detention with a three month sentence for assault and wilful damage.
▪ Unbelievably, they were later fined for, respectively, wilful damage and assault, and obstructing the police.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Acid rain has caused serious damage to the pine forests of northern Europe.
▪ It will take many years to repair the damage caused by the floods.
▪ Never look straight at the sun. Any damage to the retina could cause permanent blindness.
▪ New ways of reducing the damage to the environment are urgently needed.
▪ Rubella is a serious infection, which can cause severe physical damage to the unborn child.
▪ The vandals did over £20.000 worth of damage.
▪ There is growing evidence of lasting psychological damage to children in broken families.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Advice on any legal problem which arises in connection with the journey or holiday or with damage to your home.
▪ Boeing Field in south Seattle also was closed, by damage to the runway, Sims said.
▪ Endothelin induced gastric mucosal damage was carried out as described below.
▪ Gary Locke estimated losses totaling billions of dollars, as damage reports of highways, homes and businesses continued to trickle in.
▪ If you have an existing bedframe, always ask for advice, as the wrong combination may cause damage to the mattress.
▪ In truth Gene probably believes that the forces of darkness are gathering, but he also believes in damage limitation.
▪ Mr Galston complains, and evidence of the damage is becoming clearer and clearer.
▪ The Multnomah County Courthouse was evacuated and employees were gathered in a park across the street while officials inspected for damage.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ This same dithering had also damaged Cleo irrevocably.
▪ But they can also damage you the most in times of conflict.
▪ Economic problems also damaged the administration's standing with conservative Republicans.
▪ Cadmium is a carcinogen that can also damage the kidneys.
▪ The buyers were awarded damages assessed at 5s. per quarter and also damages which the buyers had to pay to their sub-buyer.
▪ Alleged inconsistencies in the transport ministry, according to analysts, also damage confidence.
▪ A police car was also damaged during the incident, Warrington Crown Court was told.
▪ Overheating the attic can also damage the roofing shingles.
badly
▪ Like other urban institutions, the zoo was badly damaged in the factional fighting of the early 1990s.
▪ Obviously if the group is small, its chances of success may be badly damaged by one individual not joining.
▪ Her own iron prow and cutwater were carried away, and she was otherwise badly damaged about the stern by the collision.
▪ The Millar Memorial, however, suffered a setback recently when a fire badly damaged their band hall.
▪ The car was badly damaged and one man was lying in a ditch.
▪ A bedroom was badly damaged in the blaze, but arson is not suspected.
▪ Read in studio Fire has badly damaged an office block in Gloucester.
extensively
▪ The vehicles involved a Vauxhall Cavalier and a Ford Orion were extensively damaged.
▪ Dozens of homes, a church, primary school and shops were also extensively damaged.
▪ Mr Rowbotham's Ford Escort car was extensively damaged.
▪ The 17-year-old suffered only minor injuries despite the Vauxhall Cavalier car being extensively damaged.
▪ Firemen wearing breathing apparatus fought the blaze which extensively damaged the house.
▪ The 20m by 10m barn was extensively damaged.
▪ Two firemen wearing breathing apparatus managed to confine the fire to the living room, which was extensively damaged.
further
▪ Further damage to preparations caused by local heating includes blistering of thin section bonding resins and even cracking of the glass slide.
▪ Not only would that further damage his image for posterity.
▪ Efforts by the government and the judiciary to combat the cartels had been further damaged by two recent incidents.
▪ The plane was further damaged the next day when it tried to take off on three engines instead of the usual four.
▪ But there were fears that Manchester's chances of staging the games in the year 2000 have been further damaged.
▪ This is needless and removes stones and rocks from their natural location and further damages the environment.
▪ The widespread destruction and looting carried out by the soldiers further damaged the image of the new government.
▪ And Mr Bush's economic advisers fear that any extra regulation could further damage an already weak economy.
most
▪ It is this last point which is perhaps the most damaging.
▪ His right arm and leg were the most damaged.
▪ It is the big money from the millionaires that is most damaging.
▪ It appears to be most damaging to rapidly growing organs in the body, Etzel said.
▪ Most damaging of all, some scientists fell into this very trap.
potentially
▪ These lenses are much smaller than ours, so less potentially damaging light reaches the sensory cells.
▪ The effects of comet and asteroid impacts are potentially damaging to life in general, and to human civilization in particular.
▪ Punitive damages potentially could be much more costly to cigarette companies than compensatory damages.
seriously
▪ However, the decline in the Tokyo stock market, which has rendered many warrants worthless, may seriously damage the market.
▪ Neither Bradley nor his school have been seriously damaged by his small act of information sharing.
▪ Girls like their men to look tough-but with every sign of being quite seriously damaged.
▪ The quake seriously damaged computers at the U.S.
▪ If that was now imposed on it, it would very seriously damage its business.
▪ In two days we had had forty-five ships seriously damaged in our slick battalions.
▪ Buildings were destroyed and many others, the Uffizi gallery among them, were seriously damaged.
▪ But she did it so skillfully that again neither she nor her plane was seriously damaged.
severely
▪ The Amerada Hess Corporation oil refinery, with a capacity of 545,000 barrels per day, was also severely damaged.
▪ A severely damaged Royal Navy destroyer burns through the day with exploding ordnance and great sudden flares of burning bunker oil.
▪ Next door the Northern Bank was severely damaged with window frames jutting out of the cracked masonry.
▪ We have a flood control system that is severely damaged.
▪ The front room was severely damaged and no one was injured in the incident.
▪ Twin quakes on Sept. 26 killed 10 people and severely damaged the basilica in Assisi.
▪ Its credibility has been severely damaged and its attempts to find a solution to the problem have resulted in abject failure.
▪ One day a car was brought in that had been severely damaged in an accident.
■ NOUN
brain
▪ By examining you, we can find to what extent your brain was damaged - if it was your brain.
▪ My brain damaged Can you come to me?
▪ Only 10% of children born with spina bifida are brain damaged.
▪ In Mashpee, two parents were indicted on charges of abuse that left their baby boy blind and brain damaged.
▪ However, that part of his brain may have been damaged and unable to give an accurate reading.
▪ Sometimes paralysis occurs, but it all depends on what brain region was damaged.
▪ In contrast, it is remarkable how little change in function there usually is when the brain is damaged.
▪ Affected babies are small, deformed and brain damaged.
building
▪ Huge tidal waves swamped the town, damaging almost half the buildings.
▪ It can never achieve anything but slowing people's journeys and damaging a few buildings.
▪ A rise in soil salinity in coastal areas is also expected to damage buildings, as are increased storms and gales.
business
▪ The move was intended to prove that co-operation could damage business.
▪ The courthouse bomb shattered 22 windows Thursday and blew out a chunk of wall while damaging four businesses on the surrounding block.
▪ If that was now imposed on it, it would very seriously damage its business.
▪ Cultural isolation may be damaging to the business sector of one nation.
▪ Companies A company may sue for defamation, but only in respect of statements which damage its business reputation.
▪ Any level of drinking that adversely affects some one's work performance is likely to damage your business.
▪ Do they damage the business of government by inhibiting confidentiality and honest private discussion?
car
▪ Garage blaze: Most of a garage was damaged after a car caught fire at a house in Durham Road, Stockton.
▪ Police stepped up patrols along the freeway after the shooting Monday morning, which damaged a car but caused no injuries.
▪ One was against a civil guard barracks in San Sebastian, which damaged several parked cars.
▪ They were chased away in their damaged car, having been told not to come back or they would be killed.
▪ The 17-year-old suffered only minor injuries despite the Vauxhall Cavalier car being extensively damaged.
▪ You're suggesting that I damaged your car deliberately.
▪ A crash during practice shook him up and badly damaged his car.
career
▪ Being innovative can damage your career.
▪ Because they were afraid of damaging their careers.
▪ The affair had to be kept secret, or the scandal within the hospital would irrevocably damage his career.
▪ Becoming a martyr in most business environments is a good way to damage your career progress permanently.
▪ It did not want to undermine trust or uncover extraneous information that might damage agents' careers.
▪ Mr. Hunt I withdraw the commendation that I gave the hon. Gentleman, but only because that is damaging his political career.
cause
▪ Whereabouts in the model would damage cause a patient to have to rely on the non-lexical procedure for reading?
▪ Too often over-involved people burn out without realizing it and end up damaging their cause and themselves.
▪ They are the fat, and it would have damaged his cause even to admit their existence.
▪ The consequent adverse publicity was widely held to be damaging to the Labour cause.
cell
▪ These in turn can destabilize living organisms, damaging their cell structure.
▪ Two hot areas: products for dieters and antioxidants, which are thought to neutralize so-called free radicals that can damage cells.
▪ Such levels can damage developing tooth cells and produce dental fluorosis.
▪ The damaged parenchymal cells lose their ability to either conjugate bilirubin or to transport the bilirubin that is conjugated into the bile.
▪ Nitrogen mustards in suitable doses damage only cells and tissues which normally exhibit relatively high rates of proliferation and growth.
▪ This is caused by the leakage of conjugated bilirubin from damaged parenchymal cells into the sinusoids.
▪ She mutilated herself, damaged her cell, showed violence towards staff and set fire to her bedding.
▪ Advocates say that large doses of antioxidants protect against cancer by soaking up dangerous oxygen molecules that can damage cells.
confidence
▪ The general economic uncertainties, and particularly high unemployment damaged the confidence of prospective house buyers.
▪ Alleged inconsistencies in the transport ministry, according to analysts, also damage confidence.
credibility
▪ At the same time, two financial scandals have damaged the government's credibility.
▪ But that would damage the credibility of the government further and certainly affect the financial markets, analysts said.
economy
▪ In the long run, persistent current account deficits are difficult and costly to sustain and are damaging to an economy.
▪ It builds in and reinforces their dominance, but it damages the weaker economies.
▪ The general election was called only after months of on-again, off-again dithering which damaged our economy and weakened our democracy.
▪ And Mr Bush's economic advisers fear that any extra regulation could further damage an already weak economy.
▪ Both ministries are acutely aware that Britain is suffering from skills shortages that could damage the economy and hold back business.
environment
▪ Control has often centred on powerful organochlorine pesticides, which kill the locusts but can then damage the environment.
▪ Finally, Galvin points out that when we damage our environment, we damage our future.
▪ Organic farms can be as productive as industrial farming and do not damage the environment.
▪ I suspect we may have permanently damaged the soils environment.
▪ We are, each of us, personally responsible for damaging our environment.
▪ This does not stop motorists damaging the environment but only stops them destroying it quite so violently.
▪ Clearly, this type of consumption will severely damage the environment.
▪ All of this stresses the need to ensure that future development must enhance rather than damage the environment.
fire
▪ If business premises suffer serious fire damage the landlord usually covenants to reinstate the premises with all convenient speed.
▪ The fire department estimates that damage at 50 Congress St. is about $ 500, 000, Caron said.
▪ He did not do so and the fire spread and damaged the plaintiff's property.
▪ Inside, some oil was set on fire and equipment damaged, prompting an argument about nonviolence.
▪ The Millar Memorial, however, suffered a setback recently when a fire badly damaged their band hall.
▪ Read in studio Fire has damaged a disused hotel at Abingdon in Oxfordshire.
▪ Read in studio Fire has badly damaged an office block in Gloucester.
▪ Some fires last summer damaged signalling cables.
flood
▪ The chapel was again damaged by flood in 1956 and restored in 1957.
▪ What there is instead is a deep sense of sympathy with those who have been damaged by the flood.
goods
▪ We all pass through this life as damaged goods, and the repair work is ongoing.
health
▪ Still to come ... can the new craze for step aerobics actually damage your health?
▪ Inside the body, the virus is powerful and can be extremely damaging to human health.
▪ Avoid poisons Every day there is another scare about some product damaging our health.
▪ The blocking of natural functions can damage our health.
▪ It is a state of unease of the mind, and in the horse damages both its health and behaviour.
▪ Living can damage your health, he wrote.
▪ Similarly, workfare might expose people to the stigma and frequent humiliations that are damaging to health.
home
▪ Tumbling trees and limbs also damaged homes throughout the region.
▪ It demolished a pub and damaged fourteen homes where families were sleeping.
▪ In Silverado Canyon, clogged streams can mean damaged homes and flooded roads.
house
▪ Firemen wearing breathing apparatus fought the blaze which extensively damaged the house.
▪ The water damaged the plaintiff's house and caused it to be left empty.
▪ Bomb wrecks Ulster hotel A bomb has wrecked a hotel in Ulster and damage neighbouring houses.
▪ It destroyed or damaged around 410,000 houses, leaving an estimated 1,200,000 people homeless.
image
▪ It was widely agreed that the episode had damaged the public image of Congress and had discredited the confirmation process.
▪ Not only would that further damage his image for posterity.
▪ Mr Scott added that all the media attention since May had undoubtedly damaged the good image of the club.
▪ The manoeuvring has greatly damaged his image as a leader capable of making hard decisions.
▪ The widespread destruction and looting carried out by the soldiers further damaged the image of the new government.
▪ But his tenure of the prime minister's press office lowered its reputation and damaged Mrs Thatcher's image.
ligament
▪ He damaged ankle ligaments in the defeat at Chesterfield last Saturday and will be out for about three weeks.
▪ Ince needed long treatment and it was later discovered he had damaged ankle ligaments.
▪ The former Great Britain amateur skipper has damaged knee ligaments.
million
▪ The civil suit, which had sought $ 10 million in damages, ended in an undisclosed settlement on Tuesday, however.
▪ The accidents, which involved streetcars and cable cars, caused $ 3. 6 million in damages and injured 10 people.
▪ The Blumenfelds are seeking $ 4. 8 million in damages plus interest going back to 1992.
▪ C., jury awarding Food Lion $ 5. 5 million in damages for fraud and trespassing.
punitive
▪ The punitive damages that we awarded is a deterrent for other murders, not just Mr Simpson.
▪ The trio seeks $ 25 million in damages, plus unspecified punitive damages.
relationship
▪ Nearly all think that their working habits damage relationships with their spouse, their children and harm their health.
▪ It is difficult to make progress in your career if you leave a trail of damaged relationships behind you.
▪ The proliferation of staff has also damaged collegial relationships in Congress.
▪ Despite the points listed above, many capable employees fail to see how they are damaging relationships all around them.
▪ Moreover, such a challenge is likely to damage the trading relationship between the client and the customer concerned.
▪ Longer-term solutions would include restoring the damaged relationships within the unit so that there is a return to normal working conditions.
▪ Restoring a damaged relationship with a superior Your most important working relationship is with your immediate superior.
repair
▪ On November 30, 1951, B 30A A73-39 was damaged beyond repair when it overshot the runway at Changi.
▪ The pilot suffered only minor injuries but the aircraft was damaged beyond economical repair.
reputation
▪ But stinting excessively would probably damage his reputation more than overspending.
▪ The Democrats had argued that the embarrassment of a shuttered government was damaging the reputation of the House.
▪ One must avoid publicity or anything that could damage the reputation of the hotel.
▪ You think you can damage my reputation by repeating the fantasies of some neurotic schoolteacher?
▪ He said the cancellation of the all-night concert damaged his reputation and would cost him future business.
▪ Companies A company may sue for defamation, but only in respect of statements which damage its business reputation.
▪ It can only be activated when a false statement actually damages a reputation.
system
▪ Well her being human, she thought it might damage our digestive system.
▪ Now they know a two-pronged approach is needed: blocking the virus and rebuilding the damaged immune system.
▪ The stronger argument is a functional one, that brains do not respond to damage like typical interactive systems.
▪ Frehley appears to shoot rockets from his guitar that damage the sound system.
▪ My social worker says that I shouldn't be gettin' high, because it damages the immune system.
▪ Hormonally active synthetic chemicals can damage the reproductive system, alter the nervous system and brain, and impair the immune system.
▪ There is evidence that they damage the immune system and cause cancer in animals; the effects on humans are disputed.
■ VERB
claim
▪ They claimed the bumps could damage their vehicles.
▪ It supports the Internal Revenue Service, which has claimed in court that damage awards for non-physical injuries should be taxable.
lose
▪ Should it be lost or damaged, it can be regenerated quickly.
▪ A number of circumstances in which a transparency could be lost or damaged would be quite beyond the control of the borrower.
▪ On a flotilla holiday you may accidentally lose equipment or damage the yacht.
▪ If your parcel is lost or damaged, compensation may be paid up the specified limit according to the fee paid.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
collateral damage
▪ It could also be that collateral damage from a program crash has changed the setting.
▪ Our helplessness, outrage and fear were not collateral damage.
▪ This collateral damage to otherwise healthy bits of tooth may in the end have to be dealt with itself.
damaged goods
▪ If there was actual combustion of the damaged goods, however caused, there has been damage by fire.
▪ On 5 September a credit note No. 19 was received from A. Creditor in respect of damaged goods valued £5.00 returned by the hotel.
▪ She didn't, but something about the way she moved confirmed my suspicion that she saw herself as damaged goods.
▪ We all pass through this life as damaged goods, and the repair work is ongoing.
wilful damage/disobedience/exaggeration etc
▪ He then smashed up his cell and began his detention with a three month sentence for assault and wilful damage.
▪ Unbelievably, they were later fined for, respectively, wilful damage and assault, and obstructing the police.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Don't put any hot things on the table - you'll damage the surface.
▪ He slipped on some ice and damaged ligaments in his knee.
▪ Lewis damaged his knee in training and will not appear in the game.
▪ Several recent events have damaged the government's public image.
▪ Smoking can seriously damage your health.
▪ The building had been severely damaged by fire.
▪ The company's future prospects will be badly damaged if this deal falls through.
▪ The crisis has badly damaged the president's authority.
▪ The goods were damaged during transport.
▪ The storm damaged hundreds of houses.
▪ This is likely to damage Scott's reputation even more.
▪ When carrying out the operation, doctors have to take great care not to damage the delicate nerves endings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both sexes will be damaged by the continuous disciplining that the rebellious and unsuccessful boys require.
▪ Huge tidal waves swamped the town, damaging almost half the buildings.
▪ It damages the nerves in the hands, feet or eyes.
▪ Read in studio Fire has badly damaged an office block in Gloucester.