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DAMAGE
damage, harm, hurt, scathe
(noun) the act of damaging something or someone
wrong, legal injury, damage
(noun) any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right
damage, equipment casualty
(noun) loss of military equipment
damage, harm, impairment
(noun) the occurrence of a change for the worse
price, terms, damage
(noun) the amount of money needed to purchase something; “the price of gasoline”; “he got his new car on excellent terms”; “how much is the damage?”
damage
(verb) inflict damage upon; “The snow damaged the roof”; “She damaged the car when she hit the tree”
damage
(verb) suffer or be susceptible to damage; “These fine china cups damage easily”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
damage (countable and uncountable, plural damages)
Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
(slang) Cost or expense.
Verb
damage (third-person singular simple present damages, present participle damaging, simple past and past participle damaged)
(transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
(transitive, obsolete) To undergo damage.
Source: Wiktionary
Dam"age, n. Etym: [OF. damage, domage, F. dommage, fr. assumed LL. damnaticum, from L. damnum damage. See Damn.]
1. Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief. He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage. Prov. xxvi. 6. Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune. Bacon.
2. pl. (Law)
Definition: The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.
Note: In common-law action, the jury are the proper judges of damages. Consequential damage. See under Consequential.
– Exemplary damages (Law), damages imposed by way of example to others.
– Nominal damages (Law), those given for a violation of a right where no actual loss has accrued.
– Vindictive damages, those given specially for the punishment of the wrongdoer.
Syn.
– Mischief; injury; harm; hurt; detriment; evil; ill. See Mischief.
Dam"age, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damages; p. pr. & vb. n. Damaging.] Etym: [Cf. OF. damagier, domagier. See Damage, n.]
Definition: To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair. He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship. Clarendon.
Dam"age, v. i.
Definition: To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in damage in sunlight.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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