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Damage - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Damage : (noun)
1: the occurrence of a change for the worse [syn: harm, impairment]
2: loss of military equipment [syn: equipment casualty]
3: the act of damaging something or someone [syn: harm, hurt,
scathe]
4: the amount of money needed to purchase something; "the price
of gasoline"; "he got his new car on excellent terms";
"how much is the damage?" [syn: price, terms]
5: a legal injury is any damage resulting from a violation of a
legal right [syn: wrong, legal injury]
(verb)
1: inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She
damaged the car when she hit the tree"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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DAMAGE, torts. The loss caused by one person to another, or to his property,
either with the design of injuring him, with negligence and carelessness, or
by inevitable accident.
2. He who has caused theDamage : is bound to repair it and, if he has
done it maliciously, he may be. compelled to pay beyond the actual loss.
When damage occurs by accident, without blame to anyone, the loss is borne
by the owner of the thing injured; as, if a horse run away with his rider,
without any fault of the latter, and injure the property of another person,
the injury is the loss of the owner of the thing. When the damage happens by
the act of God, or inevitable accident, as by tempest, earthquake or other
natural cause, the loss must be borne by the owner. Vide Com. Dig. h.t.;
Sayer on Damages.
3. Pothier defines damage (dommiges et interets) to be the loss which
some one has sustained, and the gain which he has failed of making. Obl. n.
159.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Damage |
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