# damage
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English damage, from Old French damage, from Vulgar Latin *damnāticum from Classical Latin damnum. Compare modern French dommage. Displaced Middle English scath.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdæmɪd͡ʒ/, (Indic) /ˈɖæmeːd͡ʒ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: dam‧age
* Rhymes: -æmɪdʒ

### Noun

damage (countable and uncountable, plural damages)
* Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
    The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
** 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Friendship”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC: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.
* (slang) Cost or expense.
    "What's the damage?" he asked the waiter.

#### Usage notes

Currently it is only used as an uncountable noun, except in the specialist legal plural-only sense, which see. There are few examples of the obsolete countable (singular) use.

#### Derived terms

* attrition damage
* brain damage
* collateral damage
* country damage
* cryodamage
* damage boost
* damage control
* damage feasant
* damageful
* damageless
* damageous
* damage over time
* loss and damage
* microdamage
* nanodamage
* neurodamage
* photodamage
* radiation damage
* splash damage
* the damage is done
* what's someone's damage
* what's the damage

#### Related terms

* damn
* indemnity

#### Translations
### Verb

damage (third-person singular simple present damages, present participle damaging, simple past and past participle damaged)
* (transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
    Synonyms: harm, injure; see also Thesaurus:harm, Thesaurus:destroy
    Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
    Cold temperatures, heavy rain, falling rocks, strong winds and glacier movement can damage the equipment.
** 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, 5: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.
** 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 Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:He […] came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.
* (intransitive, obsolete) To undergo damage; to take damage.
* (transitive) To remove a damaged or unsalable item from the sales floor for processing.
    Did you damage the items that the customer returned yet?

#### Derived terms

* damageability
* damageable
* damager
* redamage
* undamaged

#### Translations

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### References
## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* damege, dammage, dampnage, domage

### Etymology

From Old French damage, from Vulgar Latin *damnāticum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /daˈmaːd͡ʒ(ə)/, /dɔˈmaːd͡ʒ(ə)/, /ˈdamad͡ʒ(ə)/

### Noun

damage (plural damages)
* damage, harm, injury
* loss (of reputation, etc.)
* (rare) disability, weakness
* (law, often in the plural) damages (compensation for loss)

#### Related terms

* damagen

#### Descendants

* English: damage
* Scots: dammish

#### References

* “damāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Old French
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *damnāticum from Classical Latin damnum.

### Pronunciation

* (classical) IPA: /daˈmadʒə/
* (late) IPA: /daˈmaʒə/

### Noun

damage oblique singular, m (oblique plural damages, nominative singular damages, nominative plural damage)
* damage
* injury, hurt, insult

#### Related terms

* damagier

#### Descendants

* French: dommage
* Norman: dommage
* → Friulian: daneç
* → Irish: damáiste
* → Middle English: damage (see there for further descendants)
* → Piedmontese: darmage, darmagi
* → Sicilian: damaggiu