Meanings
noundamage (countable and uncountable, plural damages)
plural damages
- countableuncountableInjury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
the damage is already done
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The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
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.
1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Friendship”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC
verbdamage (third-person singular simple present damages, present participle damaging, simple past and past participle damaged)
present singular third person damages · participle present damaging · participle past damaged · past damaged
- transitiveTo 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.
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Cold temperatures, heavy rain, falling rocks, strong winds and glacier movement can damage the equipment.
The building was erected in two years, at the parochial expence, on the foundation of the former one, which was irreparably damaged by the hurricane of Auguſt, 1712.
1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island, volume 2, book 2, chapter 7, 5He […] came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.
1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] TheaterSynonyms: harm, injure, abuse, annoy, bewound, damnify, dere, do damage to
- intransitiveobsoleteTo undergo damage; to take damage.
- transitiveTo remove a damaged or unsalable item from the sales floor for processing.
Did you damage the items that the customer returned yet?
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
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nounthe occurrence of a change for the worse
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Origin
- Middle Englishscath
- Latindamnum
- Vulgar Latin*damnāticum
- Old Frenchdamage
- Middle Englishdamage
- Englishdamage
From Middle English damage, from Old French damage, from Vulgar Latin *damnāticum from Classical Latin damnum. Compare modern French dommage. Largely displaced native Middle English scath (whence unscathed). Cognate with Spanish daño, Portuguese dano, Italian danno, French dam, Romanian daună.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek βλάβη, βλάπτω
- βλάβη (blábē)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- βλάπτω (bláptō)to make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Arabic عُطْل, ضَرَر
- عُطْل (ʕuṭl)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- ضَرَر (ḍarar)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- إِضْرَار (ʔiḍrār)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- تَلَف (talaf)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- خَسَارَة (ḵasāra)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
Basque kalte egin
- kalte eginto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Bengali সদমা
- সদমা (śodoma)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
Bulgarian щета́, ущъ́рб
- щета́ (štetá)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- ущъ́рб (uštắrb)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- вреда́ (vredá)cost or expense
- щета́ (štetá)cost or expense
- повреждам (povreždam)to make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Catalan dany, perjudici
- danyabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- perjudiciabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- damnatgeabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- danyarto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Chinese Mandarin 損害 /损害, 損失 /损失
- 損害 /损害 (sǔnhài)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- 損失 /损失 (sǔnshī)cost or expense
- 毀壞 /毁坏 (huǐhuài)to make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- 損壞 /损坏 (sǔnhuài)to make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Czech poškození, škoda
- poškozeníabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- škodaabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- cenacost or expense
- poškoditto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Danish skade, beskadigelse
- skadeabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- beskadigelseabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- skadecost or expense
- beskadigeto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- gøre skade påto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- tilføje skadeto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Dutch schade, schade
- schadeabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- schadecost or expense
- beschadigento make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Esperanto damaĝo, damaĝi
- damaĝoabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- damaĝito make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- difektito make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Estonian kahju, rikkuma
- kahjuabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- rikkumato make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- lõhkumato make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Finnish vaurio, vahinko
- vaurioabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- vahinkoabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- tuhoabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- hävitysabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- kulucost or expense
- hintacost or expense
- kustannuscost or expense
- vaurioittaato make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- vahingoittaato make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
French dégât, dommage
- dégâtabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- dommageabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- dégâtcost or expense
- dommagecost or expense
- endommagerto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- abîmerto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
German Schaden, Schaden
- Schadenabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- Schadencost or expense
- beschädigento make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Greek ζημιά, ζημία
- ζημιά (zimiá)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- ζημία (zimía)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- ζημιά (zimiá)cost or expense
- ζημία (zimía)cost or expense
Hebrew נֶזֶק, הזיק
- נֶזֶק (nézek)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- הזיק (hizík)to make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Hindi नुक़सान, हानी
- नुक़सान (nuqsān)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- हानी (hānī)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- क्षति (kṣati)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- अपकार (apkār)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- हानि (hāni)cost or expense
Hungarian kár, megkárosít
- kárabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- megkárosítto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- megrongálto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- tönkreteszto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Icelandic sköddun, skadda
- sköddunabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- skaddato make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Irish damáiste, díobháil
- damáisteabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- díobháilabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- millteanasabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- damáistighto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- déan damáisteto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- déan díobháilto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- loitto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Italian danno, danno
- dannoabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- dannocost or expense
- danneggiareto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- rovinareto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- macchiareto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Japanese 痛手, 損害
- 痛手 (itade)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- 損害 (songai)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- 損傷 (sonshō)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- 損失 (sonshitsu)cost or expense
- 損なう (sokonau)to make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- 傷付ける (kizutsukeru)to make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Korean 손해, 손상
- 손해 (sonhae)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- 손상 (sonsang)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- 손실 (sonsil)cost or expense
Latin noxia, noceō
- noxiaabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- noceōto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Latvian bojājums, postījums
- bojājumsabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- postījumsabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- sabojātto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- sasistto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- sapostītto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Lithuanian žala, nuostolis
- žalaabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- nuostolisabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- sugadinimasabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- sugadintito make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- padaryti nuostoliųto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- padaryti žalosto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- pakenktito make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Malay kerosakan, rosak
- kerosakanabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- rosakto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Māori pākarutanga, whakakaurapa
- pākarutangaabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- whakakaurapato make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- whakakeretāto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Norwegian Bokmål skade
- skadeabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
Persian زیان, خسارت
- زیان (ziyân)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- خسارت (xesârat)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- آسیب (âsib)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- آک (âk)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- ضرر (zarar)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
Polish uszkodzenie, szkoda
- uszkodzenieabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- szkodaabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- uszkadzaćto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- psućto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Portuguese avaria, dano
- avariaabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- danoabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- estragoabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- estragocost or expense
- estragarto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- danarto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- avariarto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- danificarto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Romanian daună, avarie
- daunăabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- avarieabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- pagubăabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- deteriorareabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- stricăciunecost or expense
- pagubecost or expense
- daunecost or expense
- dăunato make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- defectato make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- stricato make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- deteriorato make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- avariato make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Russian поврежде́ние, уще́рб
- поврежде́ние (povreždénije)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- уще́рб (uščérb)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- вред (vred)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- уще́рб (uščérb)cost or expense
- убы́ток (ubýtok)cost or expense
- поврежда́ть (povreždátʹ)to make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- повреди́ть (povredítʹ)to make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- по́ртить (pórtitʹ)to make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- испо́ртить (ispórtitʹ)to make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- наноси́ть уще́рб (nanosítʹ uščérb)to make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- нанести́ уще́рб (nanestí uščérb)to make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Scottish Gaelic coire, milleadh
- coireabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- milleadhabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
Slovak poškodenie, škoda
- poškodenieabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- škodaabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
Spanish daño, damno
- dañoabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- damnoabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- dañocost or expense
- dañarto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- quiñarto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Swedish skada, skada
- skadaabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- skadato make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Tagalog pinsala, nasira
- pinsalaabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- nasiraabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- nagibaabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- kapinsalaanabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- pinsalacost or expense
- kapinsalaancost or expense
Thai ความเสียหาย
- ความเสียหาย (kwaam-sǐia-hǎai)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
Turkish zarar, hasar
- zararabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- hasarabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- ziyanabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
Ukrainian пошко́дження, шко́да
- пошко́дження (poškódžennja)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- шко́да (škóda)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- зби́тки (zbýtky)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- шко́да (škóda)cost or expense
- зби́тки (zbýtky)cost or expense
- пошко́джувати (poškódžuvaty)to make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- шко́дити (škódyty)to make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- псува́ти (psuváty)to make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
- завдава́ти зиби́тків (zavdaváty zybýtkiv)to make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
Urdu نقصان
- نقصان (nuqsān)abstract measure of something not being intact; harm
Welsh difrod, amhariad
- difrodabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- amhariadabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- amhariadauabstract measure of something not being intact; harm
- amharuto make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction
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