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damage
English
Etymology
From Middle English damage, from Old French damage (Modern French dommage), from Vulgar Latin *damnaticum from Classical Latin damnum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dæm?d?/
- Rhymes: -æm?d?
- Hyphenation: dam?age
Noun
damage (countable and uncountable, plural damages)
- Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
- The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Friendship
- 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.
- (slang) Cost or expense.
- "What's the damage?" he asked the waiter.
Usage notes
Currently it is only used as an uncountable noun, except in the plural. There are few examples of countable (singular) use.
Related terms
- damn
- indemnity
Translations
Verb
damage (third-person singular simple present damages, present participle damaging, simple past and past participle damaged)
- (transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
- Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
- Cold temperatures, heavy rain, falling rocks, strong winds and glacier movement can damage the equipment.
- 1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island, volume 2, book 2, chapter 7, 5:
- The building was erected in two years, at the parochial expence, on the foundation of the former one, which was irreparably damaged by the hurricane of Augu?t, 1712.
- (transitive, obsolete) To undergo damage.
Derived terms
- undamaged
Translations
References
Middle English
Alternative forms
- dampnage, dammage, domage, damege
Etymology
From Old French damage, from Vulgar Latin *damnaticum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dam?a?d?(?)/, /d?m?a?d?(?)/, /?damad?(?)/
Noun
damage (plural damages)
- damage, harm, injury
- loss (of reputation, etc.)
- (rare) disability, weakness
- (law, often in the plural) damages (compensation for loss)
Related terms
- damagen
Descendants
- English: damage
- Scots: dammish
References
- “dam??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *damnaticum from Classical Latin damnum. Cognate with Old Occitan damnatge.
Noun
damage m (oblique plural damages, nominative singular damages, nominative plural damage)
- damage
- injury, hurt, insult
Related terms
- damagier
Descendants
- French: dommage
- Norman: dommage
- ? Middle English: damage, dampnage, dammage, domage, damege
- English: damage
- Scots: dammish
- ? Irish: damáiste
- ? Sicilian: damaggiu
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worn
English
Etymology
By analogy to past participles like torn from tear and sworn from swear.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /w??n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /w??n/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /wo(?)?n/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /wo?n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)n
- Homophone: warn (accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Adjective
worn (comparative more worn, superlative most worn)
- damaged and shabby as a result of much use
Translations
Verb
worn
- past participle of wear
Derived terms
- forworn
- outworn
- worn out
Anagrams
- Norw., rown
Middle English
Verb
worn
- Alternative form of weren
Old English
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /worn/, [wor?n]
Noun
worn m
- great many, multitude
- crowd, swarm, band, flock
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “worn”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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