DAMAGE (2)

damage (2). Damage, v.t. to injure, hurt, mar, impair, spoil

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Dam″age, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damaged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Damaging (?).] [[Cf. OF. damagier, domagier. See Damage, n.]] To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair. He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship. Clarendon.