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Definition of damage :
1. Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
2. 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.
3. To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.
4. To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in oth damage in sunlight.
Synonyms:
community service, affliction, complex, reparation, fee, stroke, illness, reprisal, defile, recoupment, hardship, decay, indemnity, detriment, satisfaction, scathe, price tag, prostitute, reproach, aggrieve, disqualification, sabotage, redress, victimize, persecute, deadening, repair, debasement, collapse, fixated, profit, vandalism, suffering, impose on _or_ oppress, accident, deprivation, overshadow, noncustodial, legal injury, offset, adversity, vilify, disturbance, disablement, ante, pollution, ravish, maltreat, extradition, disrepair, misemploy, neutralize, recompense, damages, disservice, Achilles' heel, blow, outrage, detract from, fine, depreciation, prejudice, deficiency, constipation, stultification, delusion, mischief, wreckage, the ravages of something, casualty, indemnification, restitution, catastrophe, forfeiture, equipment casualty, cancel out, contamination, blessing, breakage, reverse, upon, devastation, malign, atrophy, erosion, bane, mulct, bail, forfeit, footing, bruise, requital, spoliation, failing, mishap, vituperate, help, disserve, quittance, shrinkage, infliction, weakness, demolition, deterioration, revile, impairment, ruination, exorcism, defame, injury, impair, molest, degeneration, defense mechanism, vitiate, disintegration, ill-treat, fixation, pervert, inadequacy, handicap, impound, trauma, wrongfulness, terms, disability, take its toll, misfortune, remuneration, benefit, canker, havoc, monetary value, disaster, defense, disqualify, distress, disparage, penalty, catharsis, adulteration, wear and tear, evil, rail at, misuse, slander, destruction, corruption, violate, conditioning, loose on, abuse, freight, wrong, ill-use, loss, shortcoming, better, mischance
blemish (part of speech: verb)
eyesore, defacement, fracture, scrape, rift, chip, discolor, pockmark, nick, weal, slit, spot, speck, distortion, brand, discoloration, disfigure, gash, scab, spoilage, kink, impurity, wart, stigma, splotch, distort, crack, dot, defect, notch, deface, deformity, taint, hurt, scar, flaw, sore, fleck, hole, scratch, imperfection, mark, blister, drawback, check, deform, abrasion, freckle, lesion, spoil, blemish, stain, abrade, disfigurement, hack, tarnish, blot, scuff, fault, score, blotch, mar
injure (part of speech: verb)
injure, harm, mangle, offend, wound, ache
price (part of speech: noun)
figure, price, charge, tariff, tax, quotation, expense, premium, value, cost, levy, rate, toll, duty, tab, worth, dearness, amount, outlay
damage (part of speech: verb)
ransack, wreak havoc, depredate, ravage, rend, lay waste, wreck, pillage, waste, ruin, vandalize, despoil
Usage examples:
- His brute of a horse has done more than twice that amount of damage. - "The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley", Bertram Mitford.
- Don't suppose you'll be punished, beyond paying for the damage. - "The First Hundred Thousand", Ian Hay.
- Fortunately they were prepared for something of the sort, so that no damage was done. - "The Lighthouse", Robert Ballantyne.