indemnify

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  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 hurt, to harm obsolete,rare
    — 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.
  3. 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.

词形变化

indemnifies present,singular,third-person indemnifying participle,present indemnified participle,past indemnified past indemnifies present,singular,third-person indemnifying participle,present indemnified participle,past indemnified past

词汇关系

衍生词
indemnifiable indemnification indemnifier unindemnified
相关词
indemnity endamnify

词源

词源 1
From indemn (“unhurt”) + -ify (forming verbs)
词源 2
From in- (“into”) + damnify (“to injure; to wrong”), assimilated to indemn and indemnify (“secure against loss; compensate, reimburse”).
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