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Pronunciation : Dam"age
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OF. damage, domage, F. dommage, fr. assumed LL. damnaticum, from L. damnum damage. See Damn.]
Definition : 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)

Defn: 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Dam"age
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [Cf. OF. damagier, domagier. See Damage, n.]
Definition : Defn: 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.

t. [imp. & p. p. Damages; p. pr. & vb. n. Damaging.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Dam"age
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in damage in sunlight.

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913