Definition of Damage

Dam´age   Pronunciation: dăm´ãjd
n.1.Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
2.(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.
Consequential damage
See under Consequential.
Exemplary damages
(Law) damages imposed by way of example to others. 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
those given specially for the punishment of the wrongdoer.
v. t.1.To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.
[imp. & p. p. Damaged (dăm"ãjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Damaging (dăm"ã*jĭng).]
v. i.1.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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