DAMAGES

damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redress

(noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

damages

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of damage

Noun

damages pl (plural only)

(legal) The money paid or awarded to a claimant (in England), a pursuer (in Scotland) or a plaintiff (in the US) in a civil action as compensation for a loss suffered by the same.

Source: Wiktionary

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DAMAGE

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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