damnify

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DAM'NIFY, verb transitive 1. To cause loss or damage to; to hurt in estate or interest; to injure; to endamage; as, to damnify a man in his goods or estate. 2. To hurt; to injure; to impair; applied to a person.
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