Damage | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Dăm'ağe, n.

noun

[O. Fr. damage, Pr. damnatge, dampnatge, Norm. Fr. damage, N. Fr. dommage, O. It. dannaggio, now danno: from Lat. damnum, dam-age.] 1. Any permanent injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; injury; harm.

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.

Sense 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.

In common law actions, the jury are the proper judges of damages.

Nominal damages, those given for a violation of a right where no actual loss has accrued.

Synonyms—Mischief; injury; harm. See MISCHIEF.

Dăm'age, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. DAMAGED; p. pr. & vb. n. DAMAGING.] [O. Fr. damagier, domagier, Pr. dampnatgar, It. danneggiare. See supra.] To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of; to inflict injury upon; 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.

Dăm'age, v. i.

verbintransitive

To suffer damage; to be injured or impaired in soundness or value.