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Spell Bee Word: Damage


What does damage mean?

Word: Damage

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Damage means to harm or break something so that it does not work or look as good as before.

Synonyms: harm, spoil, ruin, break

Antonyms: fix, mend

How do you spell damage?

Syllables: dam - age

Tricky part: There is only one m, and the ending is age, not idge or ege.

Watch out for: dammage, damege, damidge

Memory tip: Damage can make a thing look its age: the word ends in age, as in old age, never idge.

Damage in a sentence

Example 1: Heavy hail can damage the mango crop.

Example 2: Do not bend the book's spine or you will damage it.

Example 3: The storm damaged three trees on our street.

Fun Fact

Damage came into English from old French, and it goes back to the Latin word damnum, meaning loss or hurt.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

damage

a) repair
b) dent
c) scratch
d) crack

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a) repair. To repair is to fix what was broken, the opposite of damaging it.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

gmaead

a) damage
b) admage
c) dmaage
d) madage

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a) damage. Dam goes first, then the three letters left make the ending.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) scrach
b) damage
c) trubble
d) acident

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b) damage. Accident needs two c's, scratch needs a t and trouble has ou; damage is the one written right.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The strong wind did not damage the greenhouse, but it bent the fense.

a) damage
b) strong
c) fense
d) greenhouse

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c) fense. Fence ends in ce, as in dance. Damage is spelt right here.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Your mobile phone could be damaged if you ____.

a) switch it off
b) put a cover on it
c) charge it at night
d) drop it in water

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d) drop it in water

2. After the cyclone, people went out to look at the damage. They saw ____.

a) green fields
b) dry roads
c) a rainbow
d) fallen trees

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d) fallen trees

Associated Words

departhusbandearthquakeleadcolossal
consistcauliflowerflanneldwellbookshelf

Next steps

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