Damage vs Endanger - What's the difference?
damage | endanger |
Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
* Francis Bacon
(slang) Cost or expense.
To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
* Clarendon
To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.
* 1593, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona
* Burke
* 1877, Louisa May Alcott, Under the Lilacs
(obsolete) To incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of.
* Francis Bacon
As verbs the difference between damage and endanger
is that damage is to impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction while endanger is to put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.As a noun damage
is injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.damage
English
(wikipedia damage)Noun
- The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
- 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.
- "What's the damage ?" he asked the waiter.
Verb
(damag)- Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
- He came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.
endanger
English
Alternative forms
* endaunger (obsolete) * indangerVerb
(en verb)- I hold him but a fool that will endanger / His body [in a duel] for a girl that loves him not
- All the other difficulties of his reign only exercised without endangering him.
- If you endanger other people's life and liberty in your pursuit of happiness, I shall have to confiscate your arms, boys.
- He that turneth the humours back endangereth malign ulcers.
