damage

[DamĀ·age]

When you damage something you hurt it in a way that makes it less valuable or useful. Say you throw a baseball and it flies over your friend's head and cracks your dad's windshield. Congratulations, you've damaged your dad's car.

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Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

Noun
the act of damaging something or someone

Noun
a legal injury is any damage resulting from a violation of a legal right

Noun
loss of military equipment

Noun
the occurrence of a change for the worse

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?"

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Verb
inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"


n.
Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

n.
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.

n.
To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.

v. i.
To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in /oth damage in sunlight.


Damage

Dam"age , 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.
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. &hand; 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.

Damage

Dam"age, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damages ; p. pr. & vb. n. Damaging .] [Cf. OF. damagier, domagier. See Damage, n.] 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.

Damage

Dam"age , v. i. To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in oth damage in sunlight.

Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.

To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in oth damage in sunlight.

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Usage Examples

It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.

Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.

I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

I hope that in future Congresses there will reemerge a recognition that climate change is a reality, that our policies to meet our energy needs must also deal responsibly with environmental issues, including the damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.

Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

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Other Usage Examples

Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.

I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for many on the right, the sudden and relatively sloppily reasoned character of the abortion rulings... did real damage to the Court's reputation as a relatively neutral arbiter of legal disputes.

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.

Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

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