grave damage

collocation in English

meaningsofgraveanddamage

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grave
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪv/us
/ɡreɪv/
seriously ...
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damage
noun
uk
/ˈdæm.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈdæm.ɪdʒ/
harm ...
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(Definition ofgraveanddamagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgrave damage

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Such attempts, indeed, thereby dogravedamageto the common good.
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We must also recognise thatgravedamagehas been done to consumer confidence and that must be restored.
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I do not believe that the extra money can be raised withoutgravedamageby means of additional taxation.
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Another area in whichgravedamagemay be done is farming.
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If through default or active policy we drive out the small business, we are bound to dogravedamageto our economic and social life.
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The miners' union has now demonstrated beyond peradventure that it has the industrial power to causegravedamageto the nation's economy.
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It is a direct impost upon production of a sort which is doinggravedamageto the whole economy.
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It has inflictedgravedamageon our economy.
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We make an exemption for students and learned institutions, so that there shall be nogravedamageoccurring in the seeking of knowledge and information.
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It is impossible for them to be separated withoutgravedamagebeing done to one race or to the other.
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I do not believe that we can introduce such a system without doinggravedamageto our political institutions.
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Does he recognise that there is a massive amount of opinion against the proposals which are thought will causegravedamage?
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It is unfortunately true that in the history of mankind treason and rebellion by lawless rogues and thieves have donegravedamageto honest men.
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The levying of a sum of £1,600 million will dogravedamageto what remains of our productive industrial base.
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The speeches they have made have donegravedamageto the country.
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The practice is doinggravedamageto the morale of senior officers and to the efficiency of the force.
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At any rate, there is a certain danger in situations of proceedings abroad which, if reported here, could dogravedamageto the individual.
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It is a body which has neither privileges nor power to inflictgravedamageon the public interest.
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But to do this at a certain time could mean doinggravedamageto the organisation with which one is connected.
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He wants them to imposegravedamageon the services for which they are responsible, including services that they have a statutory obligation to provide.
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