damage

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

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. Source: opted

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

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. Source: opted

5. n. the occurrence of a change for the worse Source: wordnet

6. n. loss of military equipment Source: wordnet

7. n. the act of damaging something or someone Source: wordnet

8. n. the amount of money needed to purchase something Source: wordnet

9. n. any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right Source: wordnet

10. v. inflict damage upon Source: wordnet

11. v. suffer or be susceptible to damage Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

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