1. harm or injury: physical injury that makes something less useful, valuable, or able to function Damage to the vehicle was slight.
2. adverse effect: a harmful effect on somebody or something did untold damage to her standing in the community suffered psychological damage as a result of the harassment
3. cost: the cost or price of something
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What's the damage?
plural noun dam·ag·es
Definition:
law money paid as compensation: money paid or claimed as compensation for harm, loss, or injury
verb (past and past participledam·aged, present participledam·ag·ing, 3rd person present singulardam·ag·es)
Definition:
1. transitive verb harm somebody or something: to cause damage to something or somebody
2. intransitive verb be harmed: to suffer damage Soft fruit damages easily.
[13th century. < Old French, "loss through injury" < dam "loss, damage" < Latin damnum]
