noun
definition
Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
example
The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
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Cost or expense.
example
"What's the damage?" he asked the waiter.
verb
definition
To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
example
Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
definition
To undergo damage.
Examples of damage in a Sentence
It might have done damage inside.
You can be thankful they didn't damage the tires.
I had hail damage to my car as well.
This would take some damage control.
No matter what Rhyn would've said, the damage was done.
The damage was done.
The two looked around, visibly unsettled by the damage Jenn had done.
We only know that yesterday came a Rain of Stones upon us, which did much damage and injured some of our people.
Apparently the man had never entered the house and no damage was done.
Darkyn's daughter was unable to speak with the damage done to her head and neck.
Now it would be a trip to Fayetteville so the rental agency could verify the cause of damage - and then a call to her auto insurance company.
The laser markings matched similar damage seen on the eastern wall, which they found when they circled the compound.
The ability of a few people to do a massive amount of damage rises as civilization becomes more complex and destructive power increases.
While she never complained, it was clear she needed Damian to visit again soon and heal the damage his brother did to her on a daily basis.
The damage done to half her face caused horrible scarring that left her features lopsided and her skin knotted.
The doctor said they could find no reason for him to stay in a coma, except the possibility of brain damage from lack of oxygen or blood loss.
I don't know what you did to him, but I intend to repair the damage you've done to our people.
We must repair the damage to the southern gate and make sure the eastern gate doesn't fall into the hands of Sirian's followers.
She'd read many reports of damage and was struck by how easy it had been to dismiss the humanity of the war they were in.
When he didn't respond, I added, She'll have a hell of a headache but you guys both have some bridges in need of serious damage control.
Much damage has been done by earthquakes from time to time.
The Others had managed to disintegrate his condo without a hint of damage elsewhere.
Greenie could've done a lot of damage with the Twelfth Army at his command.
No, you'll damage it!
He could do so much more damage.
There was no way she could do enough damage to Charlie from four times as far to allow her to escape.
She walked around the side of the house to appraise the damage.
Slight shocks are very frequent, some of them severe enough to cause considerable damage to the buildings.
The outset of his administration was marked by Franco-Italian fetes at Toulon (10th to I4th April 1901), when the Italian fleet returned a visit paid by the French Mediterranean squadron to Cagliari in April 1899; and by the despatch of three Italian warships to Prevesa to obtain satisfaction for damage done to Italian subjects by Turkish officials.
The agitation ceased in June with the defeat of the strikers, but not until a vast amount of damage had been done to the crops and all had suffered heavy losses, including the government, whose expenses for the maintenance of public order ran into tens of millions of lire.
They may occur on all parts, buds, leaves, stems or roots, as shown by the numerous species of Cynips on oak, Phylloxera on vines, &c. The local damage is small, - but the general injury to assimilation, absorption and other functions, may be important if the numbers increase.
The so-called eelworms (Nematodes) may do immense damage on roots and in the grains of cereals, and every one knows how predatory slugs and snails are.
Plants as agents of damage and disease may be divided into those larger forms which as weeds, epiphytes and so forth, do injury by dominating and shading more delicate species, or by gradually exhausting the soil, &c., and true parasites which actually live on and in the tissues of the plants.
In such cases the immediate damage done may be slight; but the effects of prolonged action and the summation of numerous attacks at numerous points are often enormotis, certain of these leafdiseases costing millions sterling annually to some planting and agricultural communities.
The seriousness of the damage done is illustrated by the ravages of the larch disease, apple canker, &c.
But he could not always control his followers when their blood was up, and infinite damage was done before he could stop it.
Constant use, increased friction (m o r e especially at high speeds), and damage to the rotator will alter an ascertained log error; head or following seas, strong winds, currents and tidal streams also FIG.
But as it was laid in cast-iron chairs the lower table was exposed to damage under the hammering of the traffic, and thus was liable to be rendered useless as a running surface.
Having passed into the possession of the elector palatine of the Rhine, the building suffered much damage during a war in 1462, the Thirty Years' War, and the French invasion in 1689.
Amongst its chief recommendations were those relating to amendments in the Agricultural Holdings Acts, and to tithe rentcharge, railway rates, damage by game, sale of adulterated products, and sale of imported goods (meat, for example) as home produce.
The estimated loss by the vine Phylloxera in the Gironde alone was £32,000,000; for all the French wine districts £IOO,000,000 would not cover the damage.
In a single season Aberdeenshire suffered nearly 90,000 worth of damage owing to the ravages of the diamond back moth on the root crops; in New York state the codling moth caused a loss of $3,000,000 to apple-growers.
These parasites damage the hide, B FIG.
He added, however, that if France waged a successful war, he would remain in the East, and do more damage to England there than by mere demonstrations in the English Channel.
The most important work of his life was his co-operation in the production of the Satire Menippee (1593), which did so much to damage the cause of the League; the harangue of the Sieur d'Aubray is usually attributed to his pen.
Many of the public buildings, including the college, suffered severely from the earthquake of the 12th of June 1897; and great damage was done by tornadoes in April of 1888 and 1902.
In addition a lease frequently contains covenants for renewal of the lease at the option of the lessee, and for repairs or insurance against damage by fire by the lessee.
Saw gins do considerable damage to the fibre, but for short-stapled cotton they are largely used, owing to their great capacity.
Some idea of the enormous damage wrought by the collective attacks of individually small and weak animals may be gathered from the fact that a conservative estimate places the loss due to insect attacks on cotton in the United States at the astounding figure of $60,000,000 (£12,000,000) annually.
The cotton boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis), a small grey weevil often called the Mexican boll weevil, is the most serious pest of cotton in the United States, where the damage done by it in 1907 was estimated at about £5,000,000.