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noun

Damage n.

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." "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."

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. Note: In common-law actions, the jury are the proper judges of damages.

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.

Synonyms: Mischief; injury; harm; hurt; detriment; evil; ill. See Mischief.

verb

Damage v. t. (past & past part. damaged; pres. part. damaging) To occasion damage to the soundness, 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."

Damage v. i. To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soundness or value; as, some colors in cloth damage in sunlight.

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Etymology of 'Damage'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— The Altar Steps • Compton MacKenzie

... caravan of gipsies as they left the estate of Ellangowan. The speech of Meg Merrilies seemed particularly suspicious. There was, as the magistrate observed in his law language, damnum minatum—a damage, or evil turn, threatened—and malum secutum—an evil of the very kind predicted shortly afterwards following. A young woman, who had been gathering nuts in Warroch wood upon the fatal day, was also strongly of opinion, though she declined to make positive ...

— Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... Willoughby, now," he said; "doan' you s'pose dar's some back pay owin' to him for de damage dat yaller fever done him wot he done ...

— In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... with the loss of some diamonds. The Queen expressed her concern for the Duke instead of for the crown; but on her departure the keeper of the House of Lords appeared in front of the throne, and prevented too near an approach to it, with the chance of further damage to the dropped jewels. The misadventure was naturally the subject of a good deal of private conversation ...

— Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, (Victoria) Vol II • Sarah Tytler

... as their advance upon Stormberg had eliminated East London. They made also strenuous efforts, at many points, to destroy the main road from Kimberley south to Orange River, blowing up culverts and bridges, but the damage effected was afterward found to be less than had been expected, owing to the clumsiness of their methods; a fact which probably indicates that their cause was supported mainly by a rural population, and that ...

— Story of the War in South Africa - 1899-1900 • Alfred T. Mahan

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