Damage vs Mar - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between damage and mar

is that damage is injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact while mar is a small lake.

is that damage is to impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction while mar is to spoil, to damage.

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(wikipedia damage)

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.

(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.

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

(marr)

To spoil, to damage.

* Dryden

But mirth is marred , and the good cheer is lost.

* Milton

Ire, envy, and despair / Which marred all his borrowed visage.

See (m).

(en noun)

A small lake.

(Webster 1913)

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