Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To cause loss or damage to; hurt in person, estate, or interest; injure; endamage; impair.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to impair.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete Physically to damage; to injure.
  • verb law To cause injuries or loss to.

Etymologies

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From Old French damnifier, from Latin damnifico.

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