"brain damage" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: brain damages [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} brain damage (usually uncountable, plural brain damages)
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brain, damage. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Injuries Translations (injury to the brain): lesió cerebral [feminine] (Catalan), hjerneskade [common-gender] (Danish), lésion cérébrale [feminine] (French), Hirnschaden [masculine] (German), agykárosodás (Hungarian), heilaskaði [masculine] (Icelandic), heilaskemmd [feminine] (Icelandic), cerebrolesione [feminine] (Italian), hjerneskade [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), hjerneskade [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), lesión cerebral [feminine] (Spanish), daño cerebral [masculine] (Spanish), hjärnskada [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-brain_damage-en-noun-20tRxkCR Disambiguation of Injuries: 84 16 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 71 29 Disambiguation of 'injury to the brain': 94 6
  2. (figurative) stupidity Tags: figuratively, uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-brain_damage-en-noun-C9cNG7-F

Inflected forms

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