English Dictionary: damage | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Damage \Dam"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Damages}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Damaging}.] [Cf. OF. damagier, domagier. See {Damage}, n.] 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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Damage \Dam"age\, v. i. To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in [?]oth damage in sunlight. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Damage \Dam"age\, n. [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 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}. |