Damage vs Damnify - What's the difference?
damage | damnify |
Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
* Francis Bacon
(slang) Cost or expense.
To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
* Clarendon
(obsolete) Physically to damage; to injure.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
* 1638 , , Some Yeares Travels , I:
(legal) To cause injuries or loss to.
As verbs the difference between damage and damnify
is that damage is to impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction while damnify is (obsolete) physically to damage; to injure.As a noun damage
is injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.damage
English
(wikipedia damage)Noun
- The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
- Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.
- "What's the damage ?" he asked the waiter.
Verb
(damag)- Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
- He came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.
damnify
English
Verb
- he saw himselfe so freshly reare, / As if late fight had nought him damnifyde [...].
- The infectious raines most damnifying the poore saylers, who must be upon the decks to hand in their sailes, abiding the brunt [...].