Damage
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Similar in purpose to vindictive damages, below. Nominal damages (Law), those given for a violation of a right where no actual loss has accrued. vindictive damages or punitive damages, those given specially for the punishment of the wrongdoer. Syn: Mischief; injury; harm; hurt; detriment; evil; ill. See Mischief. [1913 Webster] Damage \Dam"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damaged (d[a^]m"[asl]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Damaging (d[a^]m"[asl]*j[i^]ng).] [Cf. OF. damagier, domagier. See Damage, n.] To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair. [1913 Webster] He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster] Damage \Dam"age\ (d[a^]m"[asl]j), v. i. To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soundness or value; as, some colors in cloth damage in sunlight. [1913 Webster]  damage n 1: the occurrence of a change for the worse [syn: damage, harm, impairment] 2: loss of military equipment [syn: damage, {equipment casualty}] 3: the act of damaging something or someone [syn: damage, harm, hurt, scathe] 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, damage] 5: any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right [syn: wrong, legal injury, damage] v 1: inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree" 2: suffer or be susceptible to damage; "These fine china cups damage easily"  damage [dæmidʒ] Beschädigung; Schaden  damage [dæmidʒ] avarie endommager dégât; dommage; préjudice; sinistre abîmer; détériorer défaut; dégât; préjudice; vice  damage kár veszteség  damage avaria danneggiare danno danneggiare difetto  damage [dæmidʒ] arruinar, avariar, danificar, deteriorar, estragar avaria, dano, estrago  damage [dæmidʒ] avería daño deteriorar daño; defecto; deterioro  damage [dæmidʒ] haveri  DAMAGE, torts. The loss caused by one person to another, or to his property, either with the design of injuring him, with negligence and carelessness, or by inevitable accident. 2. He who has caused the damage is bound to repair it and, if he has done it maliciously, he may be. compelled to pay beyond the actual loss. When damage occurs by accident, without blame to anyone, the loss is borne by the owner of the thing injured; as, if a horse run away with his rider, without any fault of the latter, and injure the property of another person, the injury is the loss of the owner of the thing. When the damage happens by the act of God, or inevitable accident, as by tempest, earthquake or other natural cause, the loss must be borne by the owner. Vide Com. Dig. h.t.; Sayer on Damages. 3. Pothier defines damage (dommiges et interets) to be the loss which some one has sustained, and the gain which he has failed of making. Obl. n. 159.  damage Beeinträchtigung f; Schaden m damage Beschädigung f damage Schaden m; Havarie f damage Schadensbild n damage Schädigung f damage Verletzung f damage beschädigen; schädigen damage schaden  179 Moby Thesaurus words for "damage": 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 Damage related |
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