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dam⋅ni⋅fy

  [dam-nuh-fahy]
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–verb (used with object), -fied, -fy⋅ing. Law.
to cause loss or damage to.
Origin:
1505–15; < MF damnifier, OF < LL damnificāre, deriv. of L damnific(us) harmful, equiv. to damn(um) damage + -ificus (see -i-, -fic ); see -ify
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Damnify

Dam"ni*fy\ (d[a^]m"n[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [LL. damnificare, fr. L. damnificus: cf. OF. damnefier. See Damnific.] To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to impair. [R.]

This work will ask as many more officials to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified. --Milton.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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