damage
Meanings
Plural: damages
Noun
- the occurrence of a change for the worse
- loss of military equipment
- the act of damaging something or someone
- the amount of money needed to purchase something
- "how much is the damage?"
- any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right
- Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
- Cost or expense.
Verb
- inflict damage upon
- "The snow damaged the roof"
- "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"
- suffer or be susceptible to damage
- "These fine china cups damage easily"
- To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
- To undergo damage; to take damage.
- To remove a damaged or unsalable item from the sales floor for processing.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English damage, from Old French damage, from Vulgar Latin *damnÄticum from Classical Latin damnum. Compare modern French dommage. Largely displaced native Middle English scath (whence unscathed).
Synonyms
abuse, aerosolize, annihilate, annoy, atomize, benothing, bewound, bewreck, blot out, blotto, damage, damnify, dash, decompose, demolish, dere, desolate, destroy, devastate, diffuse, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, do damage to, do for, do ill, do violence to, eliminate, equipment casualty, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, forwork, fuck, grieve, harm, harrow, harry, hurt, impairment, injure, jazz, lay waste, legal injury, level, liquidate, maul, misdo, nuke, obliterate, price, pull down, pulverize, put someone in hospital, race, ravage, raze, remove, ruin, scaith, scathe, stamp out, terms, total, unbreed, unexist, unmake, uproot, vulnerate, waste, wet, wipe off, wipe out, wound, wreck, wrong
Scrabble Score: 10
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