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third-person singular simple present damnifies, present participle damnifying, simple past and past participle damnified
(obsolete) To damage physically; to injure. quotations
he saw himselfe so freshly reare, / As if late fight had nought him damnifyde […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
The infectious raines most damnifying the poore saylers, who must be upon the decks to hand in their sailes, abiding the brunt […]
1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section I
The High Tide at Bristol spoil'd or damnify'd 1500 Hogsheds of Sugars and Tobaccoes, besides great quantities of other Goods.
1704, Daniel Defoe, The Storm
(law) To cause injuries or loss to. examples