Damage

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English

Noun

Damage (plural Damages)
  1. The abstract measure of something not being intact; harm.
  2. (slang) Cost or expense.

Verb

Damage (third-person singular simple present Damages, present participle damaging, simple past and past participle damaged)

  1. To make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction.

Adjectives for Damage

moral; irreparable; considerable; inestimable; permanent; malicious; substantial; sudden; serious; material; pecuniary; noticeable; characteristic; infinite; unspeakable; accidental; consequent; enormous; hidden; resultant; willful; unmistakable; punitive.

Verbs for Damage

account for —; compute —; counteract countervail —; distress by —; forestall guard against —; inflict —; measure mitigate —; offset —; pay —s; receive recoup —; recover —; reveal —; survey —; sustain —; — flows from; — impairs.

Adverbs for Damage

seriously; morally; irreparably; inestimably; permanently; maliciously; substantial¬ly; materially; noticeably; characteristically; infinitely; unspeakably; accidentally; consequently; enormously; resultantly; unmistakably; punitively; wilfully; revengefully; woefully; unscrupulously; savagely.

Synonyms for Damage

Antonyms for Damage

Thesaurus

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

Etymology

From Old French damage (Modern French dommage) < Vulgar Latin *damnaticum from Classical Latin damnum.

Pronunciation

Translations

Noun

abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
cost or expense

Verb

to make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Translations

Old French

Etymology

Vulgar Latin *damnaticum from Classical Latin damnum.

Noun

Damage m. (oblique plural Damages, nominative singular Damages, nominative plural Damage)

  1. damage
  2. injury, hurt, insult

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