Dictionary Definition
damage
Noun
1 the occurrence of a change for the worse [syn:
harm, impairment]
2 loss of military equipment [syn: equipment
casualty]
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] v : inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof";
"She damaged the car when she hit the tree"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈdæmədʒ/ (US)
Noun
Translations
abstract measure of something not being intact;
harm
- Chinese:
- Croatian: šteta
- Czech: poškození, škoda
- Danish: skade , beskadigelse
- Dutch: schade
- Finnish: vaurio, vahinko
- German: Schaden
- Greek: ζημιά (zimiá) or ζημία (zimía)
- Hebrew: נזק (nezeq)
- Hungarian: kár
- Japanese: 痛手 (itate), 損害 (songai)
- Romanian: avarie
- Russian: повреждение, ущерб, вред
- Swedish: skada
- Welsh: difrod
cost or expense
- Chinese:
- Danish: skade
- Dutch: schade
- Greek: ζημιά (zimiá) or ζημία (zimía)
- Romanian: stricăciune
- Russian: ущерб (uščérb) , убыток (ubýtok)
Verb
- To make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction.
- Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
Translations
to make something less intact or even destroy
it; to harm or cause destruction
- Chinese:
- Croatian: oštetiti
- Czech: poškodit
- Danish: beskadige, gøre skade på, tilføje skade
- Dutch: beschadigen
- Finnish: vaurioittaa
- German: beschädigen
- Hebrew: להזיק (lehazyq)
- Hungarian: megkárosít, megrongál, tönkretesz
- Lithuanian: sugadinti
- Romanian: defecta, strica
- Russian: повреждать (povreždát’) , повредить (povredít’) ; портить (pórtit’) , испортить (ispórtit’) ; наносить ущерб (nanosít’ uščérb) , нанести ущерб (nanestí uščérb)
- Swedish: skada
- ttbc Albanian: dëm
- ttbc Arabic: (ɖárar)
- ttbc Azerbaijani: xarab etmə
- ttbc Bosnian: uništiti
- ttbc Bulgarian: вреда (vreda)
- ttbc Esperanto: difekt
- ttbc Estonian: vigastus
- ttbc French: dommage
- ttbc Georgian: ზიანი (ziani)
- ttbc Hebrew: אָבְדָן (avdan)
- ttbc Hindi: hani, ghata, kshati
- ttbc Ido: domajo
- ttbc Indonesian: kerusakan
- ttbc Irish: damáiste
- ttbc Italian: danno , acaria
- ttbc Japanese: 損傷 (そんしょう) (sonshō)
- ttbc Korean: 손상 (sonsang)
- ttbc Latin: damnum
- ttbc Latvian: izdevumi
- ttbc Mongolian: хохирол (hohirol)
- ttbc Norwegian: skade
- ttbc Persian: (âsib)
- ttbc Polish: uszkodzenie , szkoda
- ttbc Portuguese: dano
- ttbc Serbian: оштетити (ošteteti)
- ttbc Slovak: cena
- ttbc Spanish: daño
- ttbc Swahili: afa
- ttbc Tagalog: kapinsalaan
- ttbc Telugu: చెరుపు (cherupu), నష్టము (nashTamu)
- ttbc Thai: (kwaam sĭa hăai)
- ttbc Turkish: zarar
- ttbc Ukrainian: шкода (škodá)
- ttbc Uyghur: eziyet
- ttbc Vietnamese: mối hại
- ttbc Yiddish: hesek
Extensive Definition
Damage may refer to:
In gaming:
- Damage Incorporated, a computer game for Mac and Windows made by Paranoid Productions in 1998
- Fall damage, an aspect of video games in which a character's health is reduced after falling from a significant height
- Quad damage, a powerup in the first-person shooter computer game series Quake
- Splash damage, a term used in several types of games
In law:
- Institutional damage, unintended consequences to an individual resulting from interaction with an institution
- Property damage, destruction done to public or private property
In literature:
- Damage (comics), a comic book character from DC Comics
- Damage (fictional game), a card game described in the science fiction novel Consider Phlebas
- Damage (novel), a 1991 novel by Josephine Hart
In music:
- Damage (British band), a British R&B boy band who achieved late success in the 1990s with ten hit singles and four Top Tens
- "Damage" (single), a free download single released by contemporary rock band The Cooper Temple Clause
- Damage 381, an album by Extreme Noise Terror
- Damage: Live, a 1994/2001 album by David Sylvian and Robert Fripp
- The Damage, a collection of Ludus songs culled from the Manchester post-punk group's albums, singles, b-sides, and live recordings
- Damage (synthcore), an Orlando, Florida based hardcore band from the 80's performing synthcore/industrial music
- Damage (album), a 2007 album by Kosheen
- Damage (Blues Explosion album), a 2004 album by Blues Explosion
- Damaged
- "Damage" (Angel episode), a fifth season episode of Angel
- "Damage" (Enterprise episode), a third season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
- Damage, a 1992 film by Louis Malle
- There is a 2007 television show called Damages
In other fields:
- Hydrogen damage, the generic name given to a large number of metal degradation processes due to interaction with hydrogen
- Somatic damage, a disease
- Water damage, a large number of possible losses caused by water intruding where it will enable attack of a material
- Physical damage, a term used to describe being harmed.Used widely in games.It's gaining popularity.
damage in German: Schaden
damage in Spanish: Herida (desambiguación)
damage in Dutch: Schade
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abomination, abuse, afflict, aggravate, aggrieve, amount, atrocity, bad, bane, bankruptcy, befoul, befoulment, bereavement, bewitch, bill, blemish, blight, breakage, breakdown, charge, check, collapse, compensation, condemn, corrupt, corruption, cost, crack-up, crippling, crucify, crying evil, curse, damages, dead loss, debit, deface, defile, defilement, deleteriousness,
demolish, denial, denudation, deprave, deprivation, despoil, despoilment, despoliation, destroy, destruction, deteriorate, deterioration, detriment, devastation, dilapidate, dilapidation, disablement, disadvantage, disfigure, dispossession, disrepair, disserve, distress, divestment, do a mischief, do
evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, drawback, embitter, encroachment, endamage, envenom, evil, exacerbate, expenditure, expense, figure, forfeit, forfeiture, get into trouble,
grievance, handicap, harass, harm, havoc, hex, hobbling, hurt, hurting, ill, ill-treat, impair, impairment, incapacitation, indemnity, infect, infection, infringement, injure, injury, inroad, invoice, irritate, jinx, liability, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, loss of ground, maiming, make worse, maltreat, mar, mayhem, menace, mischief, mistreat, misuse, molest, mutilate, mutilation, outrage, perdition, persecute, play havoc with,
play hob with, poison,
pollute, pollution, prejudice, price, price tag, privation, put back, rate, raze, reparation, robbery, ruin, ruination, ruining, ruinousness, sabotage, sacrifice, savage, scathe, score, sickening, spoil, spoiling, spoliation, step backward,
stripping, tab, taint, taking away, tarnish, the worst, threaten, torment, torture, total loss, toxin, venom, vexation, violate, vitiate, weaken, weakening, woe, worsen, wound, wreak havoc on, wreck, wrecking, wrong