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Synonyms for DAMAGE: harm, injury, detriment, hurt, insult, offence, wound, injustice; Antonyms of DAMAGE: recovery, healing, remedy, cure, fix, repair, rebuild, patch.
Damage is the kind of injury or the effect of injury that directly impairs appearance, value, usefulness, soundness, etc.: Fire causes damage to property. Detriment is a falling off from an original condition as the result of damage, depreciation, devaluation, etc.: Overeating is a detriment to health. Harm may denote either physical hurt or ...
noun. any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right. synonyms: legal injury, wrong. see more. verb. inflict damage upon. “The snow damaged the roof” “She damaged the car when she hit the tree” see more. verb. suffer or be susceptible to damage.
Check pronunciation: damage. Definition of damage noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English dam‧age1 /ˈdæmɪdʒ/ S3 W2 noun 1 physical harm [ uncountable] physical harm that is done to something or to a part of someone’s body, so that it is broken or injured damage to damage to property These chemicals have been found to cause serious environmental damage.
verb. /ˈdæmɪdʒ/ Verb Forms. damage something/somebody to have a bad or harmful effect on something/somebody. The church was badly damaged by the 1997 earthquake. Smoking seriously damages your health. to be severely/heavily damaged in the fire. Our car was damaged beyond repair in the crash.
1. injury or harm impairing the function or condition of a person or thing. 2. loss of something desirable. 3. informal cost; expense (esp in the phrase what's the damage?) vb. 4. ( tr) to cause damage to. 5. ( intr) to suffer damage. [C14: from Old French, from Latin damnum injury, loss, fine] ˈdamageable adj. ˌdamageaˈbility n. ˈdamager n.
