Definition of Damage

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Damage

Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.

To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.

To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in /oth damage in sunlight.

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Damage Quotations

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
Albert Schweitzer

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
Henry Miller

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
Layne Staley

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
H. L. Mencken

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
Barney Frank

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. Rowling

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.
Cat Stevens

The most damage I did was to myself and to the people who got caught in the maelstrom. The worst thing that happened was the overdose. But I didn't go in with three other dudes who overdosed with me. No, you overdose alone.
Charlie Sheen

Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Damage Translations

damage in Afrikaans is bederf, skade
damage in Danish is skade, beskadige
damage in Dutch is schade aanrichten, schaden
damage in Finnish is pilata
damage in Italian is difetto, lesione, ledere
damage in Latin is laedo ledo, damnum, iniuria, detrimentum, malum
damage in Portuguese is os danos

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