Crossword Dictionary

damage

damage, damaged, damages, damaging, endamage, redamage, undamaged - v 

to injure 

damage, harm, impairment - n 

the occurrence of a change for the worse 

Wordplays

Synonyms

blemish, bloody, break, compromise, crab, cripple, cross (up), deface, disfigure, endamage, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, injure, mar, spoil, vitiate

sentence examples

“Please return any items that are damaged during shipping.”

“Many homes were damaged or completely destroyed in the fire.”

“The fall severely damaged her knee.”

“Smoking can seriously damage your lungs.”

Merriam-Webster

etymology

damage (v.)

"cause damage to, hurt, injure, harm," early 14c., from Old French damagier, from damage "loss caused by injury" (see damage (n.)). 

damage (n.)

c. 1300, "harm, injury; hurt or loss to person, character, or estate," from Old French damage, domage  "loss caused by injury" (12c., Modern French dommage), from dam "damage," from Latin damnum "loss, hurt, damage" (see damn). In law (as damages) "the value in money of what was lost or withheld, that which is given to repair a cost," from c. 1400. Colloquial sense of "cost, expense" is by 1755. Damage control "action taken to limit the effect of an accident or error" is attested by 1933 in U.S. Navy jargon.