Damage is any change to a thing that degrades it from its original state.
Damage may also refer to:
General concepts
- Collateral damage, unintended damage caused during a military operation
- Fire damage
- Foreign object damage, damage to a vehicle or system caused by any foreign substance, debris, or article
- Hydrogen damage, metal degradation processes due to interaction with hydrogen
- Property damage, damage to public or private property
- Radiation damage, damage or injury due to ionizing radiation
- Water damage, damage done by water to materials not resistant to the effect of water
- Damage mechanics, damage to materials due to cyclic mechanical loads
- Biology and medical:
- Any form of injury
- Articular cartilage damage
- Brain damage
- Cell damage, to a biological cell
- Nerve damage
- Somatic damage (disambiguation)
Law
- Damages, a sum of money awarded by a court of law
- Institutional damage, unintended consequences to an individual resulting from interaction with an institution
Arts and entertainment
Film and television
Gaming
- The general loss of a character or enemy's health, caused by an attack or injury
- Damage Incorporated, a 1998 computer game for Mac and Windows by Paranoid Productions
- Damage over time, a game design concept
- Quad damage, a power-up in the first-person shooter computer game series Quake
- Splash damage, damage taken by players or objects in the area surrounding a point of weapon impact
- Splash Damage, British computer game developer
Literature
Music
Albums
Songs
- "Damage" (H.E.R. song), 2020
- "Damage" (Jimmy Eat World song), 2013
- "Damage" (Mýa song), 2018
- "Damage" (Pharoahe Monch song), 2012
- "Damage" (You Am I song), 2000
- "The Damage" (song), by Marillion, 2004
- "Damage", by Chris Brown from Exclusive, 2007
- "Damage", by the Cooper Temple Clause from Make This Your Own, 2007
- "Damage", by Exo from Don't Mess Up My Tempo, 2018
- "Damage", by Fit for Rivals, 2009
- "Damage", by Just B from Just Burn, 2021
- "Damage", by Lights from A6, 2024
- "Damage", by Myka Relocate from The Young Souls, 2015
- "Damage", by Namie Amuro, 2012
- "Damage", by PartyNextDoor from Seven Days, 2017
- "Damage", by Tiefschwarz, 2006
- "Damage", by Yo La Tengo from I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, 1997
People
- Damage, a persona used by American wrestler Rodney Begnaud (born 1970), best known as Rodney Mack
See also