damage

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Destruction or a loss in value, usefulness, or ability resulting from an action or event.
• noun Law Money required to be paid as compensation for an injury or wrong.
• noun Informal Cost; price.
• intransitive verb To cause damage to.
• intransitive verb To suffer or be susceptible to damage.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Harm; mischance; injury in general.
• noun Hurt or loss to person, character, or estate; injury to a person or thing by violence or wrongful treatment, or by adverse natural forces; deterioration of value or reputation.
• noun plural In law, the value in money of what is lost or withheld; the estimated money equivalent for detriment or injury sustained; that which is given or adjudged to repair a loss.
• noun Cost; expense.
• noun Synonyms Detriment, Harm, etc. (See injury.) Waste, etc. See loss.
• To cause damage to; hurt; harm; injure; lessen the value or injure the interests or reputation of.
• To receive damage or injury; be injured or impaired in soundness or value: as, a freshly cut crop will damage in a mow or stack.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soundness or value.
• transitive verb To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.
• noun Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
• noun (Law) 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.
• noun See under Consequential.
• noun (Law) damages imposed by way of example to others. Similar in purpose to vindictive damages, below.
• noun (Law) those given for a violation of a right where no actual loss has accrued.
• noun those given specially for the punishment of the wrongdoer.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The abstract measure of something not being intact; harm.
• noun slang Cost or expense.
• verb To make something less intact or even destroy it; to harm or cause destruction.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right
• noun loss of military equipment
• noun the occurrence of a change for the worse
• noun the act of damaging something or someone
• verb suffer or be susceptible to damage
• noun the amount of money needed to purchase something
• verb inflict damage upon