Definition of "indemnify"

indemnify¹

/ɪnˈdɛm.nɪ.faɪ/

verb
third-person singular simple present indemnifies, present participle indemnifying, simple past and past participle indemnified
1. To secure against loss or damage; to insure.
  Quotations
  The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out.
  1670, Sir William Temple, letter to Lord Arlington, in The Works of Sir William Temple, page 101
2. (chiefly law) To compensate or reimburse someone for some expense or injury.
  Quotations
  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.
  1906, Civil Code of the State of California, page 405

indemnify²

/ɪnˈdɛm.nɪ.faɪ/

verb
third-person singular simple present indemnifies, present participle indemnifying, simple past and past participle indemnified
1. (obsolete, rare) to hurt, to harm
  Quotations
  He... did not belieue that his Maiestie by this occasion coulde any way be endemnified.
  1583, Thomas Stocker's translation of A tragicall historie of the troubles and ciuile warres of the lowe Countries, i. 63a
  What harme the Rhodians haue doone thee, that thou so much indemnifiest them?
  1593, Thomas Lodge, Life & Death of William Long Beard, E ij