{
  "id": "mar.damage",
  "term": "mar",
  "sense": "damage",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "mar",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to cause a difference in a thing's state",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "difference.relation",
      "state.condition",
      "cause.reason"
    ],
    "interaction": "a difference in a thing's state is brought about by a causal agent, resulting in an imperfection",
    "novel_properties": [
      "causal change",
      "imperfection",
      "alteration of condition"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Tohoku earthquake shifted the Earth's axis by 17 centimeters, altering its rotation slightly.",
      "domain": "geophysics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Flint water crisis degraded lead pipes, increasing blood lead levels in children by 2.5 micrograms per deciliter on average.",
      "domain": "public health"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 Beirut port explosion shattered windows 10 kilometers away and damaged 70,000 apartments.",
      "domain": "urban infrastructure"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "mar",
    "marred",
    "marring",
    "mars"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added cause.reason as constitutive component since causation is essential to the action of marring; interaction and novel properties updated to reflect the emergent dynamics."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-mar.damage"
}