'Damage' definitions:
Definition of 'damage'
(from WordNet)
noun
The occurrence of a change for the worse [syn: damage, harm, impairment]
noun
Loss of military equipment [syn: damage, equipment casualty]
noun
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?" [syn: price, terms, damage]
noun
Any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right [syn: wrong, legal injury, damage]
verb
Inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"
verb
Suffer or be susceptible to damage; "These fine china cups damage easily"
Definition of 'Damage'
From: GCIDE
- Damage \Dam"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damaged (d[a^]m"[asl]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Damaging (d[a^]m"[asl]*j[i^]ng).] [Cf. OF. damagier, domagier. See Damage, n.] To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Damage'
From: GCIDE
- Damage \Dam"age\ (d[a^]m"[asl]j; 48), n. [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. [1913 Webster]
- He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage. --Prov. xxvi. 6. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. pl. (Law) 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. [1913 Webster]
- Note: In common-law actions, the jury are the proper judges of damages. [1913 Webster]
- Consequential damage. See under Consequential.
- Exemplary damages (Law), damages imposed by way of example to others. Similar in purpose to vindictive damages, below.
- Nominal damages (Law), those given for a violation of a right where no actual loss has accrued.
- vindictive damages or punitive damages, those given specially for the punishment of the wrongdoer.
- Syn: Mischief; injury; harm; hurt; detriment; evil; ill. See Mischief. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Damage'
From: GCIDE
- Damage \Dam"age\ (d[a^]m"[asl]j), v. i. To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soundness or value; as, some colors in cloth damage in sunlight. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'damage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abomination,
- abuse,
- afflict,
- aggravate,
- aggrieve,
- amount,
- atrocity,
- bad,
- bane,
- bankruptcy,
- befoul,
- befoulment,
- bereavement,
- bewitch,
- bill,
- blemish,
- blight,
- breakage,
- breakdown,
- charge,
- check,
- collapse,
- compensation,
- condemn,
- corrupt,
- corruption,
- cost,
- crack-up,
- crippling,
- crucify,
- crying evil,
- curse,
- damages,
- dead loss,
- debit,
- deface,
- defile,
- defilement,
- deleteriousness,
- demolish,
- denial,
- denudation,
- deprave,
- deprivation,
- despoil,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- destroy,
- destruction,
- deteriorate,
- deterioration,
- detriment,
- devastation,
- dilapidate,
- dilapidation,
- disablement,
- disadvantage,
- disfigure,
- dispossession,
- disrepair,
- disserve,
- distress,
- divestment,
- do a mischief,
- do evil,
- do ill,
- do wrong,
- do wrong by,
- doom,
- drawback,
- embitter,
- encroachment,
- endamage,
- envenom,
- evil,
- exacerbate,
- expenditure,
- expense,
- figure,
- forfeit,
- forfeiture,
- get into trouble,
- grievance,
- handicap,
- harass,
- harm,
- havoc,
- hex,
- hobbling,
- hurt,
- hurting,
- ill,
- ill-treat,
- impair,
- impairment,
- incapacitation,
- indemnity,
- infect,
- infection,
- infringement,
- injure,
- injury,
- inroad,
- invoice,
- irritate,
- jinx,
- liability,
- loser,
- losing,
- losing streak,
- loss,
- loss of ground,
- maiming,
- make worse,
- maltreat,
- mar,
- mayhem,
- menace,
- mischief,
- mistreat,
- misuse,
- molest,
- mutilate,
- mutilation,
- outrage,
- perdition,
- persecute,
- play havoc with,
- play hob with,
- poison,
- pollute,
- pollution,
- prejudice,
- price,
- price tag,
- privation,
- put back,
- rate,
- raze,
- reparation,
- robbery,
- ruin,
- ruination,
- ruining,
- ruinousness,
- sabotage,
- sacrifice,
- savage,
- scathe,
- score,
- sickening,
- spoil,
- spoiling,
- spoliation,
- step backward,
- stripping,
- tab,
- taint,
- taking away,
- tarnish,
- the worst,
- threaten,
- torment,
- torture,
- total loss,
- toxin,
- venom,
- vexation,
- violate,
- vitiate,
- weaken,
- weakening,
- woe,
- worsen,
- wound,
- wreak havoc on,
- wreck,
- wrecking,
- wrong
Words containing 'Damage'
- Damageable,
- Damaged,
- Damaging,
- damages,
- Consequential damage,
- Damage feasant,
- Exemplary damages,
- Liquidated damages,
- Nominal damages,
- Special damage,
- To sound in damages,
- Unliquidated damages,
- Vindictive damages,
- actual damages,
- battle damage,
- brain damage,
- collateral damage,
- compensatory damages,
- damage control,
- double damages,
- general damages,
- operational damage,
- punitive damages,
- treble damages,
- minimal brain damage