indemnify

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Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
20
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ɪnˈdɛm.nɪ.faɪ/

Definition of indemnify

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. 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.”
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verb

  1. 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. (obsolete, rare)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?”

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Etymology

From indemn (“unhurt”) + -ify (forming verbs)

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