Dictionary entry

Damage (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.