damage

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1. damage - Noun

2. damage - Verb

Meaning

Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

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.

To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.

To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in /oth damage in sunlight.

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Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties. George Soros

In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins. Antoni Tàpies

Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends? Abraham Lincoln

If you shoot your arrows at stones, you will damage them. Lower Austria Proverb

If you hurt the reputation of another, you damage your own. Togolese Proverb

You cannot damage a wrecked whip. Italian Proverb

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