Thesaurus: damage

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1. n. Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
2. 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.
3. n. To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.
4. v. i. To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in /oth damage in sunlight.
5. n. the occurrence of a change for the worse
6. n. loss of military equipment
7. n. the act of damaging something or someone
8. n. the amount of money needed to purchase something
9. n. any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right
10. v. inflict damage upon
11. v. suffer or be susceptible to damage
12. 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. Prov. xxvi. 6. 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. 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 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. 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. Clarendon. To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in damage in sunlight.