beschädigen — meaning in English
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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 weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
- spill verb To let liquid or loose material fall out of a container by accident.
- vitiate verb To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
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
- noun A plant disease, often caused by fungus, that causes rapid browning and death of leaves or stems.
- noun Something that damages or holds back growth, development, or quality of life.
- verb To damage or spoil the growth or development of something.
damage — full definition
- noun Harm or injury that reduces the value, soundness, or usefulness of something.
- verb To harm or reduce the value or condition of something.