damage vs tort

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. 

tort

noun
  • A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages. 

adj
  • Synonym of tart (“sharp- or sour-tasting; (figuratively) keen, severe, sharp”) 

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