damage
/ˈdæmɪd͡ʒ/ noun, verb
Forms damages damaging damaged
- noun Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact. “the damage is already done”
- noun (slang) Cost or expense. “"What's the damage?" he asked the waiter.”
- verb (transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction. “Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.”
- verb (intransitive, obsolete) To undergo damage; to take damage.
- verb (transitive) To remove a damaged or unsalable item from the sales floor for processing. “Did you damage the items that the customer returned yet?”
Synonyms
harm injure abuse annoy bewound damnify dere do damage to do for do ill do violence to forwork grieve harrow hurt maul mayhem misdo put someone in hospital scaith impairment equipment casualty scathe price terms wrong legal injury
Etymology
From Middle English damage, from Old French damage, from Vulgar Latin *damnāticum from Classical Latin damnum. Compare modern French dommage. Largely displaced native Middle English scath (whence unscathed). Cognate with Spanish daño, Portuguese dano, Italian danno, French dam, Romanian daună.
Webster’s 1913
- noun Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
- noun pl. (Law)
- verb To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.
- verb To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in damage in sunlight.
Etymology [OF. damage, domage, F. dommage, fr. assumed LL. damnaticum, from L. damnum damage. See Damn.]
Etymology [Cf. OF. damagier, domagier. See Damage, n.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “damage”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details