Damage and Lame

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Damage verb - To reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of.

Usage example: the explosion in the sewers damaged the entire city's water supply

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Lame and damage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lame" instead a verb "Damage".

Nearby Words: damaged, damaging, damageable

Lame verb - To cause severe or permanent injury to.

Usage example: we were afraid that the horse would be lamed by its horrible fall

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Damage and lame are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Damage" instead a verb "Lame".

Nearby Words: lameness, lamed, lamely

Despite the lame-appearing attack however, it does relatively high damage when the player is on par level with her.

Source: Video Game / AdventureQuest
The first case especially raises the question of how the player's conventional rocket launcher/tripmine/lightsaber/fireball spells don't manage to do any damage no matter how many attacks you land, while the environment's (often comparably lame) hazards are so intrinsically fatal.

Source: Puzzle Boss
Burn cards are pretty sparse; Iron Chain Blaster does 800 damage a turn at the cost of a Monster, which is pretty lame since some cards can do 500 a turn with no other requirements, while Iron Chain Repairman and Paralyzing Chain do 300 damage per activation, which is barely even chip damage.

Source: Master of None

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