Damage and Scrape

Damage

Damage noun - Something that causes loss or pain.
Usage example: the collision did a great deal of damage to her car

Scrape and damage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Scrape" instead the word "Damage" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: damaged, damaging, damageable

Scrape

Scrape noun - A brief clash between enemies or rivals.

Damage and scrape are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Damage" instead the word "Scrape" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: scrap, scraped, scraping, scraper

How words are described

good good damage good scrape
little little damage little scrape
minor minor damage minor scrape
less less damage less scrape

Common collocations

body damage body scrape body
turn damage turn scrape turn
time damage time scrape time
way damage way scrape way
Other words: car, skin, ship, opponents.

Both words in one sentence

  • Easy-Mode Mockery Surprisingly enough, you don't take more damage on Hard for any given hit or scrape, so you had a choice between "weak weapons" and "more enemies".
  • Video Game / Indy Car Racing II Definitely correct as stock cars can sometimes brush the wall, scrape the paint, and keep going, but in an open-wheel car, even the slightest wall contact is likely to cause major damage.
  • Ramming Always Works He doesn't as much as ram an enemy destroyer as much as he did scrape it, but it was enough for him to fire the Archer missiles on the Iroquois to seriously damage the destroyer at nearly point-blank as Keyes led a homing plasma shot that had been track the Iroquois back at the destroyer.
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