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Definition: Damage |
DamageNoun1. The occurrence of a change for the worse. 2. Loss of military equipment. 3. The act of damaging something or someone. 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?". 5. A legal injury is any damage resulting from a violation of a legal right. Verb1. Inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "damage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Electrical Engineering | Effects which can adversely impact the functionality and performance of the integrated circuit. Source: European Union. (references) |
Environment | Any reduction in the intended use or value of a biological or physical resource. For example, economic production, ecological structure or function, aesthetic value, or biological or genetic diversity that may be altered by a pollutant. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Harm or injury impairing the value or usefulness of something. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Damage What's the damage? What have I to pay? how much is the bill? The allusion is to the law assessing damages in remuneration to the plaintiff. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Physics | Internal deterioration of a material through the formation of microdiscontinuities. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | The negative effect of an event or a process. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Damage is
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- a novel (1991) by Josephine Hart (ISBN 0449911888) about a British politician who, in the prime of life, causes his own downfall through an inappropriate relationship; and
- a film (1992) by Louis Malle based on Hart's book, starring Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche, with a screenplay by David Hare.
The first person narrator of the novel is Dr Stephen Fleming (Irons in the movie), a medical doctor turned politician whose promotion from MP to cabinet member is imminent. Just then Fleming is casually introduced to his grown-up son's enigmatic girlfriend Anna (Binoche) and helplessly falls for her. For as long as it lasts, Martyn, his son, has no idea that his father is having an extra-marital affair with his girlfriend (and later fiancée), and Anna does not seem to mind being a young man's partner and simultaneously his father's lover and object of desire. Fleming enjoys a brief period of sexual bliss meeting Anna in various European cities and having sex with her in unlikely places. Eventually, he buys her a small flat in central London where they meet on a regular basis.
One day Martyn happens to get hold of that address and, curious, goes there to investigate. He climbs up a flight of stairs to the top floor, opens the unlocked door to the apartment, and is shocked to see his father making love to his fiancée. Dazed and utterly confused, he tumbles backwards, hits the low banister and falls down the stairwell. When the lovers have put on their clothes again and hurriedly leave their love nest, Martyn is already dead, sprawled out on the ground floor. In the final scene, we see Fleming, stripped of his political office and living abroad as a recluse, sitting in his solitary room staring at Anna's oversized photograph on the wall.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Damage."
Synonyms: DamageSynonyms: equipment casualty (n), harm (n), hurt (n), impairment (n), legal injury (n), price (n), scathe (n), terms (n), wrong (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Injure, impair, labefy, damage, harm, hurt, shend, scath, scathe, spoil, mar, despoil, dilapidate, waste; overrun; ravage; pillage. |
Impairment, inquination, injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath; perversion,impairment, inquination, injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath; perversion, prostitution, vitiation, discoloration, oxidation, pollution, defoedation, poisoning, venenation, leaven, contamination, canker, corruption, adulteration, alloy. | |
Evil | Blow, buffet, stroke, scratch, bruise, wound, gash, mutilation; mortal blow, wound; immedicabile vulnus; damage, loss; (deterioration). |
Inexpedience | Verb: be hurtful; Adjective: cause evil, produce evil, inflict evil, work evil, do evil; damnify, endamage, hurt, harm; injure; (damage); pain. |
Loss | Privation, bereavement; deprivation; (dispossession); riddance; damage, squandering, waste. |
Price | Noun: price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure; demand, damage; fare, hire, wages; (remuneration); value; a. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Damage |
| English words defined with "damage": damage control ♦ Special damage. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "damage": airfield damage repair, APPRAISER, AUTOMOBILE DAMAGE ♦ Concealed Damage, consequential damage ♦ Direct Flood Damage, DNA Damage ♦ E-7, Flood Damage Report, estimator, automobile damage ♦ foreign object damage ♦ indirect damage, indirect damage assessment, Intangible Flood Damage ♦ malicious damage, moderate damage ♦ ping-pong damage, Programmer Brain Damage ♦ secondary damage, sudden and unforeseen damage, sympathetic damage ♦ Unix brain damage. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "damage": Estrepement. (references) |
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Screenplays | I was the only guy who disagreed with the cops - and I had brain damage. (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) Who'da thought Selina had a brain to damage. Bottom line, she tries to blackmail me, I'll drop her out a higher window (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters) It's the insurance damage waiver for your beautiful new car. Will you need collision coverage (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) No Tommy, I'm not saying you can't shoot, I know you can't shoot, I'm just sayin' it'd probably do him more damage if you fed it to him. (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) It's open, come in. My attorney will be in touch with you about the damage to the door (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster) | |
Lyrics | The damage is done (You Give Love a Bad Name; performing artist: Bon Jovi) It's funny how one insect can damage so much grain (Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny); performing artist: Elton John) But all the damage she's caused isn't fixable (Objection (Tango); performing artist: Shakira) Oh, I did some damage, I know it's true (The Long Run; performing artist: The Eagles) At all the damage we have done now (Blinded (When I See You); performing artist: THIRD EYE BLIND) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Damage (1974) Untold Damage (1971) Afghanistan: Collateral Damage (2003) Major Damage (2001) Cel Damage (2001) | |
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 | Shown is gum damage caused by leukoplakia (with white patches shown). Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Tertiary syphilis occurs many years after initial untreated primary syphilis. Gummas, or internal tissue granulation, form and result in severe damage to the skin, bone, and liver. Credit: CDC. |
 | Earthquake damage in Alaska following 1964 Good Friday Earthquake. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Aerial view of Turnagain Arms, Alaska after 1963 Good Friday Earthquake NOAA photo aircraft often help evaluate disaster damage. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | The Government House at Christiansted, under repair from hurricane damage. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Erosion damage to a beach near Baltimore as a result of Hurricane Floyd. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | After fishing, any light damage to the poles is repaired. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Starfish attacking young oysters. Special equipment is used to dredge or scrape starfish off oyster beds in order to reduce the damage to the oysters. F&W 12,001. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Little Eightmile ranch, another view of the eroding habitats. More evidence of cattle damage. Over 6.5 miles of fencing was placed to protect the Lemhi River and was completed in 1998, as part of the restoration. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | The MV Columbus Iselin grounded on Looe Key in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary in August 1994. When the ship grounded it caused extensive damage to the reef. This image shows a huge swath of coral rubble at the impact site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| "A Gift for Mom" by Luke Wertz Commentary: "As the name indicated, this photo is a Christmas gift for my mother. The rose petals had extensive damage on them (one was nearly completely black), so the rose itself is edited a lot. This is my first attempt at trying to do a 'touch up' :)." | "Trees" by Kat Gruber Commentary: "Great trees up at Willanurra. in Naracoorte, South Australia. This is for all the property owners who are working hard to revegitate the land and reverse the damage caused by over-farming. Go Greening Australia!!." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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St. Bernard | Nothing can work me damage, except myself. -- The harm that I sustain I carry about me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault. |
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John Locke | 1690 | The short of the case in conquest is this: the conqueror, if he have a just cause, has a despotical right over the persons of all, that actually aided, and concurred in the war against him, and a right to make up his damage and cost out of their labour and estates, so he injure not the right of any other. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Damage caused by any kind of maltreatment of prisoners of war. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It often happened also that the interior damage was not revealed by any exterior scar |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I found thus that I had been a rich man without any damage to my poverty |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Know which noises can cause damage. (references) | |
Retinal damage may cause loss of vision. (references) | ||
Bone marrow damage - benzene (gasoline). (references) | ||
Business | Under the new law, the damage will be defined and quantified. (references) | |
The warranty may exclude damage due to road hazards, tires and dealer installed options. (references) | ||
In 1999, droughts hit 29 provinces and autonomous regions, causing RMB89.4 billion ($10.7 billion) worth of damage. (references) | ||
Children | New Zealand | In July 2000, a toddler was killed, and a second child suffered brain damage, as a result of abuse by family members. (references) |
Liberia | Since many private schools still need to be refurbished due to wartime damage, school fees were increased significantly, thereby making education unattainable for many school-age children. (references) | |
Kenya | The number of Nairobi's street children was more than 60,000 in 2000, an estimated 20 percent increase from 1999. These children often are involved in theft, drug trafficking, assault, trespassing, and property damage. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Macedonia | The parliament building suffered light damage. (references) |
Ghana | On April 18, they appeared in court and were charged with rioting, unlawful damage, and stealing. (references) | |
Antigua and Barbuda | The police broke the blockade with tear gas and arrested three of the demonstrators, charging them with damage to property. (references) | |
Economic History | Croatia | However, war damage was significant. (references) |
Guyana | With few exceptions, little damage was done to people or property. (references) | |
Guatemala | In 1998, Hurricane Mitch caused human and property damage on a massive scale. (references) | |
Human Rights | Israel and the occupied territories | The victim sustained brain damage and other serious injuries during the incident. (references) |
Colombia | Guerrilla attacks on oil pipelines also caused considerable environmental damage. (references) | |
South Africa | The charges included kidnaping, assault, intimidation, arson, and malicious damage to property. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Peru | Indigenous groups assert that such encroachment often can damage the environment and negatively affect the health of the native people. (references) |
Ecuador | Oil companies increased their efforts to minimize the environmental and social impact of their oil projects in the Amazon but continued to face criticism from indigenous groups that environmental damage continues. (references) | |
Minorities | Austria | He paid a fine to cover the cost of restoring the damage done to the graves. (references) |
Political Economy | Lesotho | In the past 3 years, most of the damage has been repaired or reconstructed, and economic growth has returned. (references) |
Zimbabwe | At least 31 people were killed, thousands of villagers were left homeless, and many more suffered lasting psychological damage. (references) | |
Korea | The U.N.'s World Food Program provides assistance to children and mothers, the elderly, and persons employed in flood damage recovery efforts. (references) | |
Political Rights | Turkey | In September an unknown assailant threw a hand grenade into a HADEP office in Cizre (Sirnak province) and caused some damage, but no injuries; a police investigation was inconclusive. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | The SDP party office in Vitez suffered extensive damage in a bomb explosion on May 1; police arrested a Croat man in the attack, which police believe was motivated by the HDZ's self-government drive. (references) | |
Trade | Qatar | Insurance normally covers damage in transit to the goods covered under the L/C. (references) |
Travel | Nepal | These strikes usually result in little or no damage to private property. (references) |
Nigeria | Nigerian roads are in poor shape, causing damage to vehicles and contributing to hazardous traffic conditions. (references) | |
Kenya | Severe storms and heavy rains in late 1997 and early 1998 led to extensive flooding and critical damage to roads and bridges, making travel and communications difficult in many parts of the country. (references) | |
Women | Kuwait | The maid suffered permanent damage to her face, neck, ears, and arms. (references) |
Japan | Over 50 damage suits have been filed in Japanese courts; approximately 10 cases were pending at year's end. (references) | |
Guatemala | Domestic violence is defined as "whatever action or omission by direct or indirect manner causes damage, or physical, sexual, psychological, or patrimonial suffering" to a person within the family group. (references) | |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | After being repatriated to Bangladesh, the boy died from kidney damage resulting from those injuries. (references) |
Cambodia | The Government allowed all strikes and demonstrations, including some in which demonstrators caused property damage. (references) | |
Qatar | No worker in a public utility, health, or security service may strike if it would harm the public or lead to property damage. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Lynne Cheney | That's right. That's right. And you can point to all the damage that drugs have done to so many people's lives. And alcohol, as well. |
Rush Limbaugh | Our planet is a remarkable place that will resist the best efforts of man to do it damage. |
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Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | Society must see to it that it does not itself crush or weaken or damage its own constituent parts. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Only a reduction in the growth of spending can keep Federal borrowing down and reduce the damage to the private sector from high interest rates. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | For three decades, six Presidents have come before you to warn of the damage deficits pose to our nation. |
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| "Damage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.44% of the time. "Damage" is used about 6,836 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 84.44% | 5,772 | 1,698 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 12.16% | 831 | 8,444 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.39% | 232 | 19,713 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,836 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "damage": aerodrome damage repair ♦ airfield damage repair ♦ area damage control ♦ battle damage ♦ battle damage repair ♦ bodywork damage ♦ cause damage ♦ cause irreparable damage ♦ cause smb. damage ♦ collateral damage ♦ compensation for property damage ♦ compensation for undue damage ♦ consequential damage ♦ criminal damage ♦ damage area ♦ damage assessment ♦ damage caused by damp ♦ damage control ♦ Damage feasant ♦ damage limitation exercise ♦ damage potential ♦ damage radius ♦ damage survey ♦ damage threat ♦ damage threshold ♦ damage to property ♦ damage to the bodywork ♦ decay damage ♦ direct damage assessment ♦ DNA Damage ♦ do damage to smth. ♦ ecological damage ♦ extensive damage ♦ fire damage ♦ foreign object damage ♦ frost damage ♦ general average damage ♦ in case of damage ♦ indirect damage ♦ indirect damage assessment ♦ insurance against material damage to a motor vehicle ♦ light damage ♦ malicious damage ♦ minimal brain damage ♦ moderate damage ♦ nuclear collateral damage ♦ nuclear damage ♦ nuclear damage assessment ♦ operational damage ♦ particular damage ♦ poststrike damage estimation ♦ potential for damage ♦ probability of damage ♦ procreative damage ♦ programmer Brain Damage ♦ property damage ♦ radiation damage ♦ reproductive damage ♦ secondary damage ♦ severe damage ♦ soil damage ♦ special damage ♦ substantial damage ♦ sudden and unforeseen damage ♦ suffer damage ♦ susceptibility to damage ♦ sympathetic damage ♦ unix brain damage ♦ user Brain Damage. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "damage": damage-awarding, damage-causing, damage-control, damage-inflicting, damage-in-use, damage-limitation, damage-to-the. | |
Ending with "damage": battle-damage, gale-damage, low-damage, mice-damage, stage-damage, storm-damage, war-damage. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
liver damage | 483 | kidney damage | 25 |
water damage | 244 | cd damage | 24 |
brain damage | 240 | symptom of nerve damage | 24 |
nerve damage | 230 | water damage restoration | 23 |
damage | 135 | damage control | 23 |
flood damage | 93 | optic nerve damage | 23 |
property damage | 83 | brain damage floyd lyrics pink | 23 |
hail damage | 80 | alcohol liver damage | 22 |
sun damage | 78 | damage inc | 22 |
fire damage | 77 | hurricane damage | 20 |
collateral damage | 73 | damage splash | 19 |
termite damage | 69 | hail damage repair | 18 |
liver damage symptom | 60 | soft tissue damage | 18 |
smoke damage | 59 | damage diego san water | 18 |
cel damage | 55 | skin sun damage | 18 |
car damage | 47 | sign of liver damage | 17 |
damage tornado | 34 | damage tree | 17 |
property damage appraiser | 31 | foreign object damage | 17 |
hail damage roof | 28 | damage real sof2 | 17 |
sciatic nerve damage | 26 | cleaning smoke damage | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "damage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | skade, bederf (bribe, corruption, decay, depravation, go bad, injure, putrefy, rot, spoil, taint). (various references) | |
Albanian | dëmtoj (affect, batter, blast, blight, break, concuss, cripple, damnify, deface, disorder, do harm, harm, hurt, impair, injure, kill, make mischief, mess, nip, prejudice, scathe, spoil, vitiate, wrench). (various references) | |
Arabic | غرم خسارة (loss), تلف (blight, bungle, burn, consume, corrode, destroy, deteriorate, deterioration, go bad, go off, go to the dogs, harm, hash, impair, mangle, molder, moulder, ravage, ruin, scourge, spoil, spoilage, spoiling, take out, total, waste away), عطل (cancel, cripple, deactivate, derange, disrupt, foul up, hold up, jam, obstruct, stay, suspend), ضرر (detriment, devilry, disadvantage, harm, hurt, injury, lesion, mal, malignancy, mis, prejudice, wrong), خسارة (disadvantage, doom, drain, injury, leakage, loss, miscarriage, mischief, perdition, prejudice, ruination, sacrifice, seep, seepage, spoilage, wastage), آذى (annoy, disagree, harm, hurt, impair, injure, lacerate, make mischief, malign, offend, prejudice, prey on, reflect, smear, work mischief), ثمن (charge, cost, eighth, esteem, estimate, price, revalue, value). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стойност (appraisement, cost, denomination, feck, price, rate, value, worth), разноски (charge, exes, expenditure, expense, expenses, outgo, outgoings, outlay), щета (injury, prejudice), вреда (detriment, disadvantage, disservice, harm, hurt, ill, injury, mischief, noxiousness, prejudice, scathe, shock), ощетявам (endamage, harm, injure, prejudice), навреждам (hurt, interfere), порутвам, поразия (havoc), повреждане (ill use, impairment), повреждам (blemish, derange, disturb, endamage, flaw, hurt, ill use, impair, injure, maim, maul, mutilate, ravage, scathe, spoil, strafe, trouble, vitiate), повреда (breakdown, conk, defect, failure, fault, flaw, hurt, injury, lesion, mischief, scathe, trouble), пакост (diablerie, harm, injury, mischief). (various references) | |
Catalan | dany. (various references) | |
Chinese | 损伤 (Damages, Detriment, Detrimental, impairment). (various references) | |
Czech | ztráta (deprivation, forfeit, loss, write off), porouchat (put out of order), polámat (break), pokazit (blemish, hurt, ruin, unsettle, vitiate), poškození (corruption, disservice, harm, lesion), poškodit (aggrieve, corrupt, harm, hurt, impair, injure, prejudice, scar, violate), škody, škoda (detriment, harm, injury, too bad). (various references) | |
Danish | skade (magpie), beskadige (injure, spoil). (various references) | |
Dutch | schaden (harm), schade aanrichten, schade (harm, loss, pity), beschadiging (degradation, surface deterioration). (various references) | |
Esperanto | difekto, difekti (injure, spoil), damaĝo, damaĝi, averio. (various references) | |
Faeroese | spilla (coddle, destroy, injure, pamper, pet, quash, spoil), skipbrot, skaði (harm, pity), oyðileggja (injure, spoil), mein. (various references) | |
Farsi | معیوب کردن (Impair, Mar), گزنده (Piquant), غرامت (Fine, Indemnity, Repayment), زیان زدن , زیان (Detriment, Disadvantage, Disservice, Drawback, Evil, Harm, Hurt, Ill, Loss, Scathe, Washout), خسارت (Detriment, Harm, Lesion, Loss, Recompense, Scathe), اسیب (Harm, Hurt, Inconvenience, Injury, Lesion, Mar, Strain, Tort, Trauma). (various references) | |
Finnish | vaurio (lesion), pilata (injure, mar, ruin, spoil). (various references) | |
French | dommage, dégât, avarie (damages), préjudice, endommager, endommagement (damaging), détériorer. (various references) | |
Frisian | skea, skansearring, skansearje (injure, spoil). (various references) | |
German | Schaden (damaging, defect, derogate, detriment, disadvantage, disadvantages, disservice, fault, harm, hurt, impair, injure, injury, loss, mischief, prejudice, to derogate), Beschädigung (injury), beschädigen (blemish, bruise, chip, deface, injure, knock about, knock around, Mar, Mark, maul, nip, spoil, spoilt, strip, to damage, to injure), schaden zufügen (harm, injure, spoil), schädigung (harm, hurt). (various references) | |
Greek | βλάβη (detriment, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, maleficence, mischief, trauma, vitiation), ζημιά (decrement, detriment, disservice, harm, hurt, injury, loss, mischief, prejudice, tort), βλάπτω (do damage, do harm, harm, hurt, injure, mar, vitiate). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | dëmtoj. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לחבל (destroy, injure, make mischief, sabotage, wound), לחבול (harm, injure, wound), להשחית (corrupt, debase, debauch, deprave, destroy, mangle, pervert, spoil, vitiate), להזיק (harm, hurt, impair, injure, prejudice), קלקול (corruption, disgrace, Mar, sin, spoilage, spoiling, vitiation), פגיעה (blow, detriment, harm, hit, hurt, impact, incidence, injury, insult, offence, shot), הפסד (absence, forfeiture, loss), הזיק (harm), נזק (detriment, harm, indemnity, injury, loss, maleficence, noisomemess). (various references) | |
Hungarian | veszteség (attrition, bereavement, blue, casualties, casualty, deficit, disadvantage, dissipation, losings, loss, losses, wastage), rongál (injure, spoil, to abuse, to batter), megrongál (dilapidate, injure, mutilate, spoil, to blemish, to damage, to impair, to injure, to mar, to mutilate, to scathe, to waste). (various references) | |
Indonesian | merongrong (gnaw at something, undermine), mencacati (impair, injure), membejati (harm), kebejatan (depravity, turpitude). (various references) | |
Italian | danno (detriment, disservice, evil, harm, hurt, ill, injury, loss, mischief, ravage, scathe, they give), danneggiare (harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, spoil), avaria (average, breakdown), difetto (blemish, bug, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, desideratum, detriment, disadvantages, disservice, failure, fault, flaw, harm, lack, Miss, shortage, shortcoming, vice), lesione (crack, hurt, injury, lesion), ledere (injure, prejudice). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 被害. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がい (cap, congratulatory feeling, cover, criminal investigation, evil influence, harm, hundred quintillion, hundred trillion, injury, lid, meaning of a picture, obstinacy, scythe, self-will, suitability, victory song), ダメージ , きしょう (badge, beauty spot, climate, disposition, emblem, getting out of bed, happy laughter, injury, insignia, medal, memorizing, rare, rising, scarce, temperament, unexpected victory, victory by uncommon stratagem, vow, weather), きそん (assassination, existing, injury, returning to one's village, waste), しょうがい (accident, assault, casualty, commit suicide, disorder, hindrance, impediment, injury, obstacle, one's lifetime, public relations, wound), そんがい (injury, loss), そんしょう (country house, countryside, honorary title, injury, village), そんかい (destruction, village assembly), きき (brilliance, crisis, demolishing, destroying, disliking, displeasure, dreadful, effective, effectiveness, efficacy, ghastly, machinery and tools, offense, the Kojiki and Nihonshoki, work), ひがいがく (amountof damage), ひがい (scarlet carp, sturgeon), いたみ (ache, bruise, distress, grief, pain, sore), けっそん (deficit, loss, shortage), はそん, だげき (batting, blow, shock, strike). (various references) | |
Korean | 손상 (Damages, Damaging, impairment). (various references) | |
Manx | jeeylley, jeeyllal, jeeyl (for damage see jeeill, harmfulness, havoc, injury, prejudice, vandalism), jeeilley (contribute, fee, pay), jeeill (waste, waste for produce see jeeyll), foudid (deterioration, morbidity), foudaghey (deteriorate, deterioration). (various references) | |
Norwegian | skade (bruise, detriment, harm, hurt, injure, injury). (various references) | |
Papiamen | defekto, daño, daña, fayo (aberration, error, mistake). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amageday.(various references) | |
Polish | szkoda. (various references) | |
Portuguese | dano (damnification, detriment, harm, hurt, injury, loss, mischief, prejudice, scathe, tort), prejuízo (damnification, disadvantage, disservice, lesion, loss, mischief, prejudice, scathe), avaria (average, breakdown, derangement, prang). (various references) | |
Romanian | daunã (disservice, ill, injury), defecta (crap, deteriorate, spoil), deranjament (defect, derangement, disorder), deservi (serve, store), deteriora (debase, deface, deteriorate, impair), discredita (cry down, cut up, decry, deface, demolish, depreciate, discredit, disparage, pull to pieces, run down, throw discredit on, undermine, write down), pierdere (bad, defeat, deprivation, loss), avarie (average, break down, casualty, failure, fault, injury, wreck), boroboaţã (roguery, trouble), compensaţie (amends, compensation, drawback, indemnification, indemnity, offset, quittance, redress, remedy, requital, restitution, retrieval, set off), cost (charge, cost, price, value), avaria (deteriorate, impair, injure, spoil), ofensa (abuse, affront, huff, hurt, injure, insult, mortify, offend, spite, touch, vex), vãtãmare (harm, mischief, wound), ponos (blame, defect, drawback, hint, trouble), poznã (caper, farce, Folly, foolishness, freak, merry prank, mischief, practical trick, prank, roguery), prãpãdenie (danger, destruction, ruin), preţ (charge, cost, expense, figure, offer, price, purchase, rate, value, wage, worth), prejudiciu (detriment, grievance, harm, prejudice, wrong), smintealã (defect, Folly, harm, hindrance, lunacy, madness, mistake, shortcoming), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), stricãciune (corruption, deterioration, harm, injury), supãrare (affliction, anger, annoyance, bitterness, burden, care, chafe, cloud, cross, Dander, fury, grief, harm, irritation, mood, moroseness, mumps, pain, peevishness, pet, pettishness, pique, rage, Ruth, sadness, sorrow, spite, spunk, suffering, sulk, trouble, vexation), vãtãma (blight, hurt, injure, scathe, touch, wound, wrong), feşteli (dirty). (various references) | |
Russian | стоимость (cost, val value, value, worth), урон (losses), ущерб (detriment, disadvantage, disservice, harm, injury, prejudice, scathe), убытки (damages, material losses), убыток (loss, wastage), компенсация за убытки, вредитель (pest, vermin), вред (detriment, disadvantage, disservice, harm, mischief, noxiousness, prejudice), наносить ущерб (do evil, endamage, impair), авария (breakdown, casualty, crash, emergency, prang, wreck), порча (defacement, depravation, deterioration, poisoning, spoilage, vitiation), повреждение (fault, impairment, injury, labefaction, lesion, mischief, trauma), повреждать (blast, cripple, impair, injure), позорить (asperse, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, stigmatize). (various references) | |
Scottish | domail, dolaidh (harm, injury, loss), dochair (hurt, injury), deireas (harm, injury), calldachd (detriment), calldach (detriment, loss), call (detriment : air chall, loss, lost). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ugruvati (hurt, shake up), povrediti (encroach, hurt, impinge, injure, job, sear, violate, wound), pokvariti (adulterate, blemish, corrupt, deteriorate, gum up, mar, queer, sophisticate, spoil, strip, taint, tamper), oštetiti (blemish, harm, mar, scathe), ošteta, oštećenje (breakage, breakdown), nauditi, kvar (breakage, breakdown, bug, failure, malfunction, trouble), štetiti (blast, harm), šteta (detriment, harm, hurt, it is a pity, mischief, pity, ravage, scathe, shame). (various references) | |
Spanish | daño (bruise, dynamite, eradication, harm, hazard, hurt, injury, jeopardy, nuisance), deterioro (deterioration, deteriorative, disrepair, spoilage, wear, wear and tear), avería (average, breakdown, failure, fault, trouble). (various references) | |
Swedish | åverkan (injury), skada (blight, corrupt, corruption, crock, detriment, disadvantage, disserve, harm, hurt, ill, impair, injure, injury, insult, loss, mischief, prejudice, riddle), avbräck (injury). (various references) | |
Tagalog | sirà. (various references) | |
Turkish | değerini düşürmek (alloy, attenuate, bemean, cheap, cheapen, debase, depreciate, detract, devaluate, devalue), zarar vermek (do a disservice, do harm, encroach, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, infest, injure, prejudice, scathe, scourge, shatter, spite), zarar (average, bad, cost, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, encroachment, evil, forfeit, harm, havoc, hurt, injury, loss, maleficence, mischief, prejudice, ravage, sacrifice, scathe, wreckage), masraf (charge, cost, disbursement, drain, drain on the purse, expenditure, expense, outgo, outlay, payment), maliyet (cost), hasara uğratmak (flaw, wreck), hasar yapmak, hasar (average, depredation, detriment, harm, havoc, injury, mischief, scathe, spoilage, wreckage), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), ariza (accident). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яamanlyk (detriment, harm). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шкода (breakage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, harm, hurt, ill, injury, loss, mischief, noxiousness, scathe), врата, завдавати збитків, забити (hurt, shut up), підбити, пошкоджувати, пошкодження (disturbance, hurt, impairment, lesion), дефект (brack, defect, demerit, fault, flaw). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mối hại (endamage, mischief), điều hại (endamage). (various references) | |
Welsh | difrod (havoc, waste), niweidio (harm, hurt, injure), niwed (harm, injury), amharu (harm, impair, injure), amhariad (impairment). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adflicta, adflicto affligo, comminuo, damnum, detrimentum, iniuria, laedo ledo, malum, praejudicium, vitio. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | damage. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 28, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oi de prosedokwn auton mellein pimprasqai h katapiptein afnw nekron epi polu de autwn prosdokwntwn kai qewrountwn mhden atopon eiV auton ginomenon metaballomenoi elegon qeon auton einai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | At illi existimabant eum in tumorem convertendum et subito casurum et mori diu autem illis sperantibus et videntibus nihil mali in eo fieri convertentes se dicebant eum esse deum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And thei gessiden that he schulde be turned `in to swellyng, and falle doun sudenli, and die. But whanne thei abiden longe, and sien that no thing of yuel was don in him, thei turneden hem togider, and seiden, that he was God. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Howbeit they wayted when he shuld have swolne or fallen doune deed sodenly. But after they had loked a greate whyle and sawe no harme come to him they chaunged their myndes and sayde that he was a God. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Yet they looked when he would have swelled, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But they had the idea that they would see him becoming ill, or suddenly falling down dead; but after waiting a long time, and seeing that no damage came to him, changing their opinion, they said he was a god. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 28, Verse 6 |
| Albanian | Dhe ata po prisnin që ai të fryhej ose të binte i vdekur në çast; por, mbasi pritën gjatë dhe panë se nuk po i ndodhte asgjë e pazakontë, ndryshuan mendim dhe thanë se ishte një perëndi. |
| Cebuano | Ug ilang gipaabut nga mohubag ang iyang kamot o nga dihadiha matumba siya nga patay; apan sa nakapaabut na silag taas nga panahon ug wala silay nakitang kadaut nahitabo kaniya, nangausab sila sa ilang paghunahuna ug nanag-ingon nga siya usa ka dios. |
| Croatian | a oni oèekivahu da æe oteæi i umah se srušiti mrtav. Pošto su dugo èekali i vidjeli da mu se ništa neobièno nije dogodilo, promijeniše mišljenje te stadoše govoriti da je bog. |
| Danish | Men de ventede, at han skulde hovne op eller pludseligt falde død om. Men da de havde ventet længe og så, at der ikke skete ham noget usædvanligt, kom de på andre Tanker og sagde, at han var en Gud. |
| Dutch | En zij verwachtten, dat hij zou opzwellen, of terstond dood nedervallen. Maar als zij lang gewacht hadden, en zagen, dat geen ongemak hem overkwam, werden zij veranderd, en zeiden, dat hij een god was. |
| Finnish | Ja he odottivat hänen ajettuvan tai äkisti kaatuvan kuolleena maahan. Mutta kun he olivat kauan odottaneet ja näkivät, ettei hänelle mitään pahaa tapahtunut, muuttivat he mielensä ja sanoivat hänen olevan jumalan. |
| French | Ces gens s`attendaient à le voir enfler ou tomber mort subitement; mais, après avoir longtemps attendu, voyant qu`il ne lui arrivait aucun mal, ils changèrent d`avis et dirent que c`était un dieu. |
| German | Sie aber warteten, wenn er schwellen würde oder tot niederfallen. Da sie aber lange warteten und sahen, daß ihm nichts Ungeheures widerfuhr, wurden sie anderes Sinnes und sprachen, er wäre ein Gott. |
| Hungarian | Azok pedig azt várják vala, hogy õ meg fog dagadni, vagy nagyhirtelenséggel halva rogyik le. Mikor azonban sok ideig várták, és látták, hogy semmi baja nem lesz, megváltoztatva értelmöket, istennek mondják vala õt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mereka pikir sebentar lagi tangan Paulus akan bengkak atau tiba-tiba ia akan jatuh mati. Tetapi setelah menunggu beberapa lama dan tidak ada sesuatu luar biasa yang terjadi kepadanya, pikiran mereka berubah lalu mereka berkata bahwa Paulus adalah dewa. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka mereka itu bersangka bahwa ia akan bengkak, atau seketika itu juga rebah mati. Tetapi apabila sudah lama mereka itu menunggu dan tiada kelihatan barang sesuatu bahaya atasnya, maka berubahlah sangka mereka itu, lalu mengatakan bahwa Paulus suatu dewa. |
| Maori | Na whanga noa ratou kia tetere ia, kia hinga whakarere ranei, kia mate: heoi ka roa noa to ratou whanganga, a, i te kitenga kahore he aha i pa ki a ia, ka puta ke o ratou whakaaro, ka mea, he atua ia. |
| Norwegian | men de ventet på at han skulde hovne eller falle død om med det samme. Da de nu ventet lenge, og så at han ikke hadde noget ondt av det, kom de på andre tanker, og sa at han var en gud. |
| Portuguese | Eles, porém, esperavam que Paulo viesse a inchar ou a cair morto de repente; mas tendo esperado muito tempo e vendo que nada de anormal lhe sucedia, mudaram de parecer e diziam que era um deus. |
| Rumanian | Oamenii aceia se awteptau sq -l vadq umflkndu-se sau cqzknd deodatq mort; dar, dupqce au awteptat mult, wi au vqzut cq nu i se kntkmplq niciun rqu, wi-au schimbat pqrerea, wi ziceau cq este un zeu. |
| Shuar | Tura niisha Eárchatpiash tusar ii pujuarmiayi. "Túmatskesha jaka inianchatpiash" tiarmiayi. Túrasha ti Núkap pujussha penké najaweachmiayi. Túrunamtai, nuinkia Nusháa Enentáimprar "Pápruka Yúschashit" tiarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Mientras tanto, ellos esperaban que comenzara a hincharse o que cayera muerto de repente. Pero al pasar mucho tiempo esperando y al ver que no le pasaba nada malo, cambiaron de parecer y decían que era un dios. |
| Swahili | Wale watu walikuwa wakitazamia kwamba angevimba au hapohapo angeanguka chini na kufa. Baada ya kungojea kwa muda mrefu bila kuona kwamba Paulo amepatwa na jambo lolote lisilo la kawaida, walibadilisha fikira zao juu yake, wakasema kuwa ni mungu. |
| Uma | Ra'uli' pue' ngata, mowoto-ki mpai' pale-na, ba mule' modungka mata' -i pai' mate. Hiaa' mahae rapeka'au, uma-hawo moapa-i. Ngkai ree mobali' wo'o-mi pekiri-ra, ra'uli': "Paulus toei, to mobaraka' -i!" |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "damage": damageabilities, damageability, damaged, damager, damagers, damages. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "damage": endamage, redamage. (additional references) | |
Words containing "damage": endamaged, endamages, redamaged, redamages, undamaged. (additional references) | |
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"Damage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: admag, admags, amage, Amegee, Camaguey, Dalmane, damagier, Damajan, Damange, damge, damige, Dammage, damole, damozel, dampage, danae, danager, Danase, Danmare, Daragh, decage, demage, Demange, diage, Dimove, divage, domag, Domagk, dommage, Dormagen, Dramane, dunnage, Dupage, Gammage, Ramagge, Samange. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "damage" (pronounced da"muj) |
| 3 | -m u j | homage, image, pilgrimage, plumage. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-g-m" | |
-1 letter: adage, gamed. | |
-2 letters: aged, agma, dame, egad, gaed, gama, game, made, mage, mead. | |
-3 letters: aga, age, ama, dag, dam, gad, gae, gam, ged, gem, mad, mae, mag, med, meg. | |
-4 letters: aa, ad, ae, ag, am, de, ed, em, ma, me. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-g-m" | |
+1 letter: damaged, damager, damages, gambade, managed. | |
+2 letters: amygdale, damagers, decagram, dekagram, endamage, gambades, grandame, magdalen, massaged, megadeal, rampaged, redamage, smaragde. | |
+3 letters: amygdalae, amygdales, comanaged, decagrams, dekagrams, diagramed, endamaged, endamages, gambadoes, grandames, magdalene, magdalens, megadeals, megadeath, redamaged, redamages, smaragdes, undamaged, unmanaged. | |
+4 letters: anagrammed, bemadaming, campaigned, diagrammed, dramaturge, endamaging, magdalenes, marginated, megadeaths, mismanaged, redamaging, smaragdine, smaragdite. | |
+5 letters: admeasuring, amalgamated, camouflaged, damascening, daydreaming, deaminating, demarcating, diamagnetic, dramaturges, grandmaster, mastheading, mispackaged, overmanaged, smaragdites. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Bible Trace | 21. Derivations 22. Rhymes 23. Anagrams 24. Bibliography |
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