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Damage vs Breakage - What's the difference?

damage | breakage |

As nouns the difference between damage and breakage

is that damage is injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact while breakage is the act of breaking.

As a verb damage

is to impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.

damage

English

(wikipedia damage)

Noun

  • Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
    • The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.
  • (slang) Cost or expense.
    • "What's the damage ?" he asked the waiter.

    Verb

    (damag)
  • To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
    • Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
  • * Clarendon
    • He came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.

    breakage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of breaking.
  • Something that has been broken.
    • At the end of the party, there were two reported breakages .
  • The left-over money in a parimutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.