damage

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA ^(key): /ˈdæmədʒ/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: dam‧age

Noun

Singular damage

Plural damages

1. (uncountable) If something has some damage, there is something broken or hurt.

   Their car hit a truck, but luckily there was very little damage to the car.

2. (plural only) Money that someone has to pay someone else because something was damaged or someone was hurt.

   The reason his car hit another car was that he did something wrong, so he had to pay damages to the owner of the other car.

Verb

Plain form damage

Third-person singular damages

Past tense damaged

Past participle damaged

Present participle damaging

1. (transitive) If you damage something, you break or hurt it.

   All those cigarettes have damaged her health.

   The factory has caused significant damage to the local environment.