DAMAGES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does damages mean? 

• DAMAGES (noun)
  The noun DAMAGES has 1 sense:

1. a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

  Familiarity information: DAMAGES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAMAGES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

amends; damages; indemnification; indemnity; redress; restitution

Hypernyms ("damages" is a kind of...):

compensation (something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "damages"):

relief ((law) redress awarded by a court)

actual damages; compensatory damages; general damages ((law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated)

nominal damages ((law) a trivial sum (usually $1.00) awarded as recognition that a legal injury was sustained (as for technical violations of a contract))

exemplary damages; punitive damages; smart money ((law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct))

atonement; expiation; satisfaction (compensation for a wrong)

 Context examples 

It damages the myelin sheath, the material that surrounds and protects your nerve cells.

(Multiple Sclerosis, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

In medicine, a loss of blood flow to part of the brain, which damages brain tissue.

(Cerebrovascular accident, NCI Dictionary)

The peptide binds to tumor blood vessels, and TNF damages them.

(CNGRC Peptide-TNF Alpha Conjugate, NCI Dictionary)

"I will, I will! Only you must be responsible for damages." and obeying orders, Laurie heroically shut his eyes while something was put into his arms.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

CeeNU damages the cell's DNA and may kill cancer cells.

(CeeNU, NCI Dictionary)

Something damages the developing nervous system or causes it to develop abnormally.

(Brain Malformations, NIH)

Toxicity that impairs or damages the heart.

(Cardiotoxicity, NCI Thesaurus)

CCNU damages the cell's DNA and may kill cancer cells.

(CCNU, NCI Dictionary)

Myocardial infarction damages heart tissue both during the initial ischemia and the subsequent reperfusion of tissues with oxygen.

(Corticosteroid Cardioprotection Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Cytochlor damages the DNA in cancer cells, which may make them easier to kill with radiation therapy.

(Cytochlor, NCI Dictionary)