Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bring loss or damage to; harm; injure; prejudice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic To
damage .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.
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Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.
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But so far has he been from stirring and taking away that which is, or contradicting that which evidently appears, that he casts not so much as one single word out of the accustomed use; but taking away all figurative fraud that might hurt or endamage things, he again restored the ordinary and useful signification to words in these verses: -
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There neuer medled any power with theim, that was able to conquers theim: or muche to endamage them.
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Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.
Ezra 4. 1999
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Can we by any means more "grieve this Holy Spirit" and endamage our own souls?
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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And as for the stay of the merchants with their goods, it was the king's pleasure, but not with intent to endamage any man.
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage Walter Bigges
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The arrangement also provided "that if we should have need to use our weapons that night, we might be sure not to endamage our fellows."
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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Maidens and honesty wandered then, I say, where they listed, alone, signiorising, secure that no stranger liberty, or lascivious intent could prejudice it, or their own native desire or will any way endamage it.
The Second Book. III. Of That Which Passed between Don Quixote and Certain Goatherds 1909
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And as for the stay of the merchants with their goods, it was the kings pleasure, but not with intent to endamage any man.
Drakes Great Armada 1909
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