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indemnifying

indemnifying is the present participle and gerund of indemnify.

Meaning of indemnify

Verb (1)

indemnify (third-person singular simple present indemnifies, present participle indemnifying, simple past and past participle indemnified)

  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.1670, Sir William Temple, letter to Lord Arlington, in The Works of Sir William Temple, page 101
  2. 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.1906, Civil Code of the State of California, page 405

Verb (2)

indemnify (third-person singular simple present indemnifies, present participle indemnifying, simple past and past participle indemnified)

  1. (obsolete, rare) to hurt, to harm
    • 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

Questions about indemnifying

What is indemnifying the present participle and gerund of?
Indemnifying is the present participle and gerund of indemnify.

Words near indemnifying in the dictionary

  1. indemnifier
  2. indemnifiers
  3. indemnifies
  4. indemnifieth
  5. indemnify
  6. indemnifying
  7. indemnitee
  8. indemnitees
  9. indemnities
  10. indemnitor
  11. indemnitors

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