enormous damage

collocation in English

meaningsofenormousanddamage

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enormous
adjective
uk
/ɪˈnɔː.məs/us
/əˈnɔːr.məs/
extremely ...
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damage
noun
uk
/ˈdæm.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈdæm.ɪdʒ/
harm ...
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(Definition ofenormousanddamagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They certainly didenormousdamage.
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There wasenormousdamageto electricity supplies.
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The uncertainty is causingenormousdamage.
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There wasenormousdamageand death.
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It is ill thought out and has causedenormousdamage.
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My second point concerns theenormousdamagesuffered by fisheries.
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Everybody must recognise theenormousdamagedone by rats.
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That can doenormousdamageto our industrial base.
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The wood pigeon doesenormousdamageall the year round.
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That createsenormousdamageto our historical heritage.
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But she didenormousdamageto the enemy.
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They doenormousdamageto the people involved in them.
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It will doenormousdamageto the future of government.
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They causeenormousdamage, distress, mess and waste.
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Those villains could poison people and could causeenormousdamageto public health.
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We had the whole movement of stock interrupted andenormousdamageresulted to our farmers.
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He cannot have appreciated theenormousdamagethat this amendment would cause to the rural areas.
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That frustration is causingenormousdamageto public confidence as well as to police morale.
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It is already doingenormousdamage, and the operational impact is clear.
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It is practically useless for commercial purposes, but it doesenormousdamage.
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Does he accept that to legislate in that specific area would causeenormousdamage?
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Naturally, they have pretended that they were not doingenormousdamage.
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They causeenormousdamageto the environment unless they are very carefully controlled.
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Enormousdamagecan be done if a practitioner is poorly trained or, indeed, untrained.
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They thought they knew better than the naturalists andenormousdamagewas done to those geese.
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