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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INDEM'NIFY, v.t. [in and damnify; L. damnificus; damnum, loss.]
1. To save harmless; to secure against loss, damage or penalty.
2. To make good; to reimburse to one what he has lost. We indemnify a man, by giving sufficient security to make good a future loss, or by actual reimbursement of loss, after it has occurred.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: secure against future loss, damage, or liability; give security for; "This plan indemnifies workers against wages lost through illness"
2: make amends for; pay compensation for; "One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich"; "She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident" [syn: compensate, recompense, repair, indemnify]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-fied; -fying) Etymology: Latin indemnis unharmed, from in- + damnum damage Date: 1611 1. to secure against hurt, loss, or damage 2. to make compensation to for incurred hurt, loss, or damage Synonyms: see pay • indemnifier noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (-ies, -ied) 1 (often foll. by from, against) protect or secure (a person) in respect of harm, a loss, etc. 2 (often foll. by for) secure (a person) against legal responsibility for actions. 3 (often foll. by for) compensate (a person) for a loss, expenses, etc. Derivatives: indemnification n. indemnifier n. Etymology: L indemnis unhurt (as IN-(1), damnum loss, damage)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Indemnify In*dem"ni*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indemnified; p. pr. & vb. n. Indemnifying.] [L. indemnis unhurt (in- not + damnum hurt, damage) + -fy. Cf. Damn, Damnify.] 1. To save harmless; 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. --Sir W. Temple. 2. To make restitution or compensation for, as for that which is lost; to make whole; to reimburse; to compensate. --Beattie.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(indemnifies, indemnifying, indemnified) To indemnify someone against something bad happening means to promise to protect them, especially financially, if it happens. (FORMAL) They agreed to indemnify the taxpayers against any loss... It doesn't have the money to indemnify everybody. VERB: V n against n, V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Secure (against loss, injury, or penalty), save harmless. 2. Compensate (for loss or injury), remunerate, reimburse, requite, make good.

Moby Thesaurus

atone, compensate, cover, do penance, expiate, fee, fill up, get satisfaction, give and take, give satisfaction, guerdon, make amends, make compensation, make good, make reparation, make requital, make restitution, make retribution, make up for, pay, pay back, pay by installments, pay damages, pay off, pay on, prepay, quit, recompense, rectify, redress, refund, reimburse, remit, remunerate, render, repay, requite, retaliate, reward, salary, satisfy, set right, square, tender