Definition of "damage"

damage

/ˈdæmɪd͡ʒ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural damages
1. Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
  Quotations
  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.
  1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Friendship”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret
2. (slang) Cost or expense.
verb
third-person singular simple present damages, present participle damaging, simple past and past participle damaged
1. (transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
  Quotations
  The building was erected in two years, at the parochial expence, on the foundation of the former one, which was irreparably damaged by the hurricane of Auguſt, 1712.
  1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island, volume 2, book 2, chapter 7, 5
  He […] came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.
  1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To undergo damage.
3. (transitive) To remove a damaged or unsalable item from the sales floor for processing.

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