Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Harm or injury to property or a person, resulting in loss of value or the impairment of usefulness.
- n. Law Money ordered to be paid as compensation for injury or loss.
- n. Informal Cost; price.
- v. To cause damage to.
- v. To suffer or be susceptible to damage.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Harm; mischance; injury in general.
- n. Hurt or loss to person, character, or estate; injury to a person or thing by violence or wrongful treatment, or by adverse natural forces; deterioration of value or reputation.
- n. plural In law, the value in money of what is lost or withheld; the estimated money equivalent for detriment or injury sustained; that which is given or adjudged to repair a loss.
- n. Cost; expense.
- n. Synonyms Detriment, Harm, etc. (See injury.) Waste, etc. See loss.
- To cause damage to; hurt; harm; injure; lessen the value or injure the interests or reputation of.
- To receive damage or injury; be injured or impaired in soundness or value: as, a freshly cut crop will damage in a mow or stack.
Wiktionary
- n. The abstract measure of something not being intact; harm.
- n. slang Cost or expense.
- v. To make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
- n. (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.
- v. To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.
- v. To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soundness or value.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right
- n. loss of military equipment
- n. the occurrence of a change for the worse
- n. the act of damaging something or someone
- v. suffer or be susceptible to damage
- n. the amount of money needed to purchase something
- v. inflict damage upon
Etymologies
- From Old French damage (Modern French dommage), from Vulgar Latin *damnaticum from Classical Latin damnum. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French : dam, loss (from Latin damnum) + -age, -age. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The problem can be simplified by assuming that the damage caused by a flood is proportional to a damage index D:”
“- where a number of damage incidence combinations are available, it is possible to draw a damage incidence distribution curve (see fig.D. 2).”
“Only thing to have with a can of brain damage is another can of brain damage.”
“In the film, a female convict suffering from brain damage is implanted with the memories, skills and training of a CIA female agent who was recently killed.”
“Playing 21 shots and then getting brain damage from a tumble down the stairs is a terribly, terribly shitty way to celebrate a birthday. spookyu”
“What gives me brain damage, is the complexities of the x tonne concrete equals x tonnes carbon expended.”
“A man with brain damage is given a hormone treatment that has the effect of increasing his intelligence, only in this case it doesn't wear off, but keeps going.”
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Stories Of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
“Realistically even if he had been able to cure the infected they would have severe brain damage from the high body temp. they sustained while infected.”
Eating and Watching Movies at the Same Time (The "I Am Legend" Not-Review)
“Given who's running the city, there's no harm to be done by critics -- the damage is already done.”
“Better, in that case, to figure out what the damage is and how to mitigate it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘damage’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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SEDE - principles and indicators
publicity, readiness, use of force, deterrence, K-kill, damage, morals, range, power, information security, balance of power, compliance with t... and 184 more...
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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FUN - World of Warcraft terminology
cloth wearing player, new player, paladin specifica..., achievement, additional monster, sex, location, agility equivalen..., old kingdom, alchemist, alliance, alterac valley and 424 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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The -ages of Man(-age)
Trivet also has this list, which you should go see. And then I found this list, and this list...
manage, salvage, selvadge, savage, voyage, umbrage, entourage, homage, carriage, marriage, language, potage and 123 more...
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I am : violent
Destructive verbs that speed up entropy. (Still working on definition of what I want; may add adjectives later.)
destroy, wreck, thrash, trash, beat up, annihilate, exterminate, disembowel, eviscerate, disintegrate, explode, bomb and 41 more...
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Siamese-Twin Words
Idea from Will Shortz's NPR puzzle feature. Two words that share a common letter (end of first word and start of second word) and forming a larger word, e.g., mill and lion = mil-l-ion. Variants ...
cordial, portable, trillion, retort, preposition, palace, domesticity, passage, shallow, electorate, bootstrap, turkey and 9 more...
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Mark
scrawl, blemish, spot, mar, damage, speckle, bespatter, splash, smirch, stain, tattoo, impress and 20 more...
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-age
condition; result of; account; number of; cost of; place of; collection of; home of; to act
marriage, acreage, postage, steerage, peerage, hermitage, forage, Hermitage, pilgrimage, baggage, blockage, carnage and 24 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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The "dark" things
grave, dead, death, die, died, dies, murder, murdered, murderer, murders, murdering, murderous and 115 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for damage.

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