damage

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  THE BOWS OF THE KASHMIR DAMAGED BY COLLISION
• WordNet 3.6
  • v damage inflict damage upon "The snow damaged the roof","She damaged the car when she hit the tree"
  • v damage suffer or be susceptible to damage "These fine china cups damage easily"
  • n damage the act of damaging something or someone
  • n damage any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right
  • n damage loss of military equipment
  • n damage the occurrence of a change for the worse
  • n damage 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?"
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An art critic that has damaged an artist's painting with his pen, begs to not have his art essays cut up

• Interesting fact: During World War II, condoms were used to cover rifle barrels from being damaged by salt water as the soldiers swam to shore
• • Damage 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 .""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."
  • Damage (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.
  • v. t Damage To occasion damage to the soundness, 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."
  • v. i Damage To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soundness or value; as, some colors in cloth damage in sunlight.
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• Interesting fact: Termites do more damage in the U.S. ever year than all the fires, storms and earthquakes combined. They do an average of $750 million in damage annually
• • n damage Harm; mischance; injury in general.
  • n damage Hurt or loss to person, character, or estate; injury to a person or thing by violence or wrongful treatment, or by adverse natural forces; deterioration of value or reputation.
  • n damage plural In law, the value in money of what is lost or withheld; the estimated money equivalent for detriment or injury sustained; that which is given or adjudged to repair a loss.
  • n damage Cost; expense.
  • n damage Synonyms Detriment, Harm, etc. (See injury.) Waste, etc. See loss.
  • damage To cause damage to; hurt; harm; injure; lessen the value or injure the interests or reputation of.
  • damage To receive damage or injury; be injured or impaired in soundness or value: as, a freshly cut crop will damage in a mow or stack.
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• Interesting fact: Scientists have determined that having guilty feelings may actually damage your immune system
• • n Damage dam′āj hurt, injury, loss: the value of what is lost: :
  • v.t Damage to harm
  • v.i Damage to take injury
  • n Damage dam′āj (coll.) cost
  • n Damage dam′āj (pl.) the pecuniary reparation due for loss or injury sustained by one person through the fault or negligence of another
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• George Sweeting

  

  “I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!”
• Mahatma Gandhi

  

  “Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
• Henry Miller

  

  “Instead of asking -- How much damage will the work in question bring about? why not ask -- How much good? How much joy?”
• H. L. Mencken

  

  “Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.”
• George Orwell

  

  “The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.”
• Source Unknown

  

  “Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory.”

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