tremendous damage
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftremendousanddamage
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tremendous
adjective
uk/trɪˈmen.dəs/us/trɪˈmen.dəs/
very great in amount or level, or ...
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damage
noun
uk/ˈdæm.ɪdʒ/us/ˈdæm.ɪdʒ/
harm ...
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(Definition oftremendousanddamagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Tremendousdamagehas been done to the civilian population.
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They have donetremendousdamageto many miles of drains and river banks.
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Would that not causetremendousdamageto the prospects of manufacturing investment?
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Reallytremendousdamagehas been caused to those dwellings—no doubt, quite easily.
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Something is done to this or that control, and it may result intremendousdamage.
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Under successive administrations,tremendousdamagehas been done to our industrial capacity in manufacturing by rationalisations.
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They eat the young trees, they consume the crops, and dotremendousdamage.
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Failure to do that could causetremendousdamageto the structure of certain sectors.
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That remark will dotremendousdamageto this campaign for partnership in industry.
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However, the problems are not usually evident—chlamydia is a silent infection, which doestremendousdamage.
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When it exploded, it injured eight or nine soldiers and causedtremendousdamageto the base.
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Tremendousdamagecan be caused by a small aeroplane, as also by a large aeroplane.
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Such a disaster will dotremendousdamagenot only to our social and democratic fabric but to our nation.
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A long period of attrition is quite wrong and will dotremendousdamageto relationships and to the economy.
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When children leave school, they return again and again to their alma mater and dotremendousdamage.
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Tremendousdamagehas been caused to nature as well as to the livelihoods of the population living in these areas.
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Of course, he will not make such a claim, because he realises thetremendousdamagedone by opencast mining operations.
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Tremendousdamagehas been done to the economy and it is very difficult now to put that right.
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Tremendousdamagewas caused to crops and vegetation.
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We must recognise thetremendousdamagethat we do simply because we try too hard to ensure that the care and the parents are appropriate.
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The first was thetremendousdamagethat had been done to industry by the wild swings in policy between the two parties.
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Fragile and rich bio-diversity, including forest reserve zones and national parks, have sufferedtremendousdamage, and the full environmental effects have yet to he costed.
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We must expect that in a fleet battle between good and efficient navies equally matched,tremendousdamagewill be reciprocally inflicted.
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His army arrested and imprisoned several monks and priests and causedtremendousdamageto the monastery.
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