beschädigen — meaning in English

English meaning

• blight noun A plant disease, often caused by fungus, that causes rapid browning and death of leaves or stems.
• damage noun Harm or injury that reduces the value, soundness, or usefulness of something.
• flaw noun A defect or imperfection, often one that is hidden or not obvious at first.
• impair verb To make something weaker or worse.
• spill verb To let liquid or loose material fall out of a container by accident.
• vitiate verb To spoil something or lower its quality or usefulness.

Senses

beschädigen is used for these senses in English:

• blight (figurative) To impede the development or growth of (an aspect of life); to damage, to ruin, to spoil.
• damage (transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
• flaw (transitive) To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
• impair (transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
• munge (transitive, computing, informal) To transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner, as for example when data wrangling requires nonsystemic or nonsystematic edits.
• spill To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
• spill (obsolete, intransitive) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
• vitiate (transitive) To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.

blight — full definition

1. noun A plant disease, often caused by fungus, that causes rapid browning and death of leaves or stems.
2. noun Something that damages or holds back growth, development, or quality of life.
3. verb To damage or spoil the growth or development of something.

damage — full definition

1. noun Harm or injury that reduces the value, soundness, or usefulness of something.
2. verb To harm or reduce the value or condition of something.

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