Damage /(dăm"ā̇j; 48)/

Dam·age

Damage

n.
  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.
  2. 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. (Law)

Phrases & Compounds
Consequential damage
See under Consequential.
Exemplary damages
damages imposed by way of example to others. Similar in purpose to vindictive damages, below.
Nominal damages
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.

Damage

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Damaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Damaging

  1. To occasion damage to the soundness, 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

v. i.
  1. To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soundness or value; as, some colors in cloth damage in sunlight.