damn-, demn-

To what damage.

A legal phrase used for assessing damages relating to privately owned land that is taken for public use. The name of a writ, formerly issued from the English chancery, commanded the sheriff to make an inquiry "to what damage" a specified act, if done, would tend.

This writ is of ancient origin and could be issued as a writ of right when a landowner is dissatisfied with the assessment of damages as a result of a condemnation commission.

1. To say in a strong and definite way that someone or something is bad or wrong.
2. To close a structure; such as, a house or building, etc. because it is not safe for people to live in.

Deserving censure, rebuke, or total disapproval: The condemnable act of stealing from the poor should really not be tolerated.

Damage to tissues, sperm, ova, or other substances during freezing: Cryodamage causes harm to or destruction of the maintaining of viability of excised tissue, organs, embryos, sperm, ova, or other substances, such as for transplantation, by storing them at very low temperatures, usually with immersion in liquid nitrogen at -196.5°C.

A description of the relation between changes in the climate and consequent reductions in economic activity, relative to the rate of activity that would be possible in an unaltered climate.

1. Susceptible of wreckage or of being broken: The precious glasses in the box are damageable unless they are carefully wrapped.
2. Capable of being pernicious or harmful: The comments the boy next-door made were damageable and hurtful when he saw Jane's old hand-me-down bike.

Someone or something which causes damage to; to injure or harm; to reduce the value or usefulness of.