Noun: damage
| Singular | damage |
| Plural | damages |
Sample Sentences
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the damage is already done
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The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
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Great errors and absurdities many […]commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune. [1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Friendship”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:]
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"What's the damage?" he asked the waiter.
Nouns inflected like damage
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English damage, from Old French damage, from Vulgar Latin *damnāticum from Classical Latin damnum. Compare modern French dommage. Largely displaced native Middle English scath (whence unscathed). Cognate with Spanish daño, Portuguese dano, Italian danno, French dam, Romanian daună. See: Middle English Nouns '
damage', Latin Nouns '
damnum', French Nouns '
dommage', Spanish Nouns '
daño', Portuguese Nouns '
dano', Italian Nouns '
danno', French Nouns '
dam', Romanian Nouns '
daună'.
Verbs referencing "damage"
Spanish Nouns
daño.