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damage

noun

1 did the thieves do any damage?:

harm, injury, destruction, vandalization, vandalism;

impairment, defilement, desecration, defacement, disfigurement, scarring, mutilation, vitiation, detriment;

ruin, havoc, devastation;

wear and tear, battering, friction, erosion, attrition, corrosion, abrasion, deterioration, degeneration;

rare detrition.

2 informal what's the damage?:

cost, price, expense, charge, bill, account, total.

3 (damages) she won £4,300 damages in the county court:

compensation, recompense, restitution, redress, reparation(s);

repayment, reimbursement, remuneration, requital, indemnification, indemnity, satisfaction;

North American, informal comp;

archaic guerdon, meed;

rare solatium.

verb

the parcel had been damaged by rough handling:

harm, do damage to, injure, mar, deface, mutilate, mangle, impair, blemish, disfigure, vandalize, blight, spoil, defile, desecrate;

tamper with, sabotage, disrupt, play havoc with, vitiate;

ruin, devastate, destroy, wreck, cripple, drive a nail into the coffin of;

North American, informal trash;

rare disfeature.

▷antonyms repair; improve.

damage Oxford Dictionary of English