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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Damage \Dam"age\ (d[a^]m"[asl]j; 48), noun [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. --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 actions, the jury are the proper judges of damages.
{Consequential damage}. See under {Consequential}.
{Exemplary damages} (Law), damages imposed by way of example to others. Similar in purpose to {vindictive damages}, below.
{Nominal damages} (Law), those given for a violation of a right where no actual loss has accrued.
{vindictive damages} or {punitive damages}, those given specially for the punishment of the wrongdoer.
Syn: Mischief; injury; harm; hurt; detriment; evil; ill. See {Mischief}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Damage \Dam"age\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Damaged} (d[a^]m"[asl]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Damaging} (d[a^]m"[asl]*j[i^]ng).] [Cf. OF. damagier, domagier. See {Damage}, noun] 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. --Clarendon.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Damage \Dam"age\ (d[a^]m"[asl]j), verb (used without an object) To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soundness or value; as, some colors in cloth damage in sunlight.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
damage
noun
1: the occurrence of a change for the worse [syn: {harm}, {impairment}]
2: loss of military equipment [syn: {equipment casualty}]
3: the act of damaging something or someone [syn: {harm}, {hurt}, {scathe}]
4: 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?" [syn: {price}, {terms}]
5: a legal injury is any damage resulting from a violation of a legal right [syn: {wrong}, {legal injury}]
verb: inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
179 Moby Thesaurus words for "damage": abomination, abuse, afflict, aggravate, aggrieve, amount, atrocity, bad, bane, bankruptcy, befoul, befoulment, bereavement, bewitch, bill, blemish, blight, breakage, breakdown, charge, check, collapse, compensation, condemn, corrupt, corruption, cost, crack-up, crippling, crucify, crying evil, curse, damages, dead loss, debit, deface, defile, defilement, deleteriousness, demolish, denial, denudation, deprave, deprivation, despoil, despoilment, despoliation, destroy, destruction, deteriorate, deterioration, detriment, devastation, dilapidate, dilapidation, disablement, disadvantage, disfigure, dispossession, disrepair, disserve, distress, divestment, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, drawback, embitter, encroachment, endamage, envenom, evil, exacerbate, expenditure, expense, figure, forfeit, forfeiture, get into trouble, grievance, handicap, harass, harm, havoc, hex, hobbling, hurt, hurting, ill, ill-treat, impair, impairment, incapacitation, indemnity, infect, infection, infringement, injure, injury, inroad, invoice, irritate, jinx, liability, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, loss of ground, maiming, make worse, maltreat, mar, mayhem, menace, mischief, mistreat, misuse, molest, mutilate, mutilation, outrage, perdition, persecute, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, pollution, prejudice, price, price tag, privation, put back, rate, raze, reparation, robbery, ruin, ruination, ruining, ruinousness, sabotage, sacrifice, savage, scathe, score, sickening, spoil, spoiling, spoliation, step backward, stripping, tab, taint, taking away, tarnish, the worst, threaten, torment, torture, total loss, toxin, venom, vexation, violate, vitiate, weaken, weakening, woe, worsen, wound, wreak havoc on, wreck, wrecking, wrong
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