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indemnify

verb
/ɪnˈdɛm.nɪ.faɪ/

Etymology

From in- (“into”) + damnify (“to injure; to wrong”), assimilated to indemn and indemnify (“secure against loss; compensate, reimburse”).

  1. derived from indemnis
  2. borrowed from indemne
  3. formed as indemnify — “indemn + -ify”

Definitions

  1. To secure against loss or damage

    To secure against loss or damage; to insure.

    • The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out.

  2. To compensate or reimburse someone for some expense or injury.

    • The lender of a thing for use must indemnify the borrower for damage caused by defects or vices in it, which he knew at the time of lending, and concealed from the borrower.

  3. to hurt, to harm

    • 1583, Thomas Stocker's translation of A tragicall historie of the troubles and ciuile warres of the lowe Countries, i. 63a He... did not belieue that his Maiestie by this occasion coulde any way be endemnified.
    • 1593, Thomas Lodge, Life & Death of William Long Beard, E ij What harme the Rhodians haue doone thee, that thou so much indemnifiest them?

The neighborhood

Derived

indemnifiable, indemnification, indemnifier, unindemnified

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at indemnify. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01indemnify02loss03ruined04ruin05dilapidated06disrepair07repair

A definitional loop anchored at indemnify. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at indemnify

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA