dégât
French
    
    Etymology
    
Deverbative from Old French deguaster, inherited from Latin dēvastāre (which was borrowed as dévaster). See also gâter.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /de.ɡa/, /de.ɡɑ/
- Audio (France, Paris) - (file) 
- Audio (CAN) - (file) 
- Rhymes: -ɑ
- Homophone: dégâts
Noun
    
dégât m (plural dégâts)
- damage
-  2020 June 19, “Stopper la haine sur Internet”, in Le Monde:- Mais ces jugements, rendus longtemps après l’infraction, ne règlent pas la question des dégâts causés en temps réel par les messages haineux sur la Toile.- But these judgments, handed down long after the offense, do not solve the problem of the damage caused in real time by hate messages on the Web.
 
 
 
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Usage notes
    
In French, the plural is often used where in English the singular would be preferred.
Derived terms
    
Further reading
    
- “dégât”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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