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Deteriorate vs Damage - What's the difference?

deteriorate | damage |

As verbs the difference between deteriorate and damage

is that deteriorate is to make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair while damage is to impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.

As a noun damage is

injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.

deteriorate

English

Verb

(deteriorat)
  • To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
    • to deteriorate the mind
  • * Southey
    • The art of war, like every other art, ecclesiastical architecture alone excepted, was greatly deteriorated during those years of general degradation
  • To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 8 , author=Paul Fletcher , title=Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=It was turning into an abysmal afternoon for Newcastle and it deteriorated further when Tiote saw red for his challenge on Jon Ashton. }}

    Related terms

    * deterioration * deteriorative * deteriorable

    Synonyms

    * worsen

    Antonyms

    * ameliorate * better * improve

    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.