damage

1. 1.

   inflict damage upon

   “The snow damaged the roof”

   “She damaged the car when she hit the tree”

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2. 2.

   suffer or be susceptible to damage

   “These fine china cups damage easily”

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Other forms of damage

plural

damages·

past tense

damaged·

present participle

damaging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about damage

What does damage mean?

damage means "the occurrence of a change for the worse". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in damage?

damage has 2 syllables: dam-age. The stress falls on "dam". In IPA it is /ˈdæmədʒ/.

What is another word for damage?

Close synonyms include harm, impairment, equipment casualty, harm, hurt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is damage a common word?

damage is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.