damage vs repair

damage

noun
  • Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact. 

  • Cost or expense. 

verb
  • To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction. 

  • To remove a damaged or unsalable item from the sales floor for processing. 

repair

noun
  • The condition of something, in respect of need for repair. 

  • The act of repairing something. 

  • The result of repairing something. 

  • A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt. 

  • The act of repairing or resorting to a place. 

verb
  • to pair again 

  • To transfer oneself to another place. 

  • To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for. 

  • To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy. 

How often have the words damage and repair occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )