Damage meaning

dăm'ĭj

The definition of damage is injury or harm to a person or thing that reduces health, value or usefulness.

An example of damage is a shattered hip that needs replacement.

An example of damage is a chair that's been broken.

An example of damage is the devastation after a tornado.

noun

Destruction or a loss in value, usefulness, or ability resulting from an action or event.

noun

Cost; price.

What's the damage for the tickets to the show?

noun

To cause damage to.

verb

To suffer or be susceptible to damage.

verb

Injury or harm to a person or thing, resulting in a loss in soundness or value.

noun

Money claimed by, or ordered paid to, a person to compensate for injury or loss caused by the wrong of the opposite party or parties.

noun

Cost or expense.

noun

To do damage to.

verb

To incur damage.

verb

Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.

The storm did a lot of damage to the area.

noun

(slang) Cost or expense.

"What's the damage?" he asked the waiter.

noun

To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.

Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.

verb

Money required to be paid as compensation for an injury or wrong.

noun

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

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