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DAMAGE
Definition of DAMAGE
noun
Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English damage, from Old French damage, from Vulgar Latin *damnāticum from Classical Latin damnum. Compare modern French dommage. Largely displaced native Middle English scath (whence unscathed). Cognate with Spanish daño, Portuguese dano, Italian danno, French dam, Romanian daună.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DAMAGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 37 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
DAMAGE starts with D and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AADEGM - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start DAMAGE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found DAMAGE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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