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

2. (n.) 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.

3. (n.) To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.

4. (v. i.) To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soundness or value; as. some colors in cloth damage in sunlight.

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