Injure vs Damnify - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between injure and damnify

is that injure is to wound or cause physical harm to a living creature while damnify is (obsolete) physically to damage; to injure.

(injury)

(injur)

To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.

To damage or impair.

To do injustice to.

* harm * damage * hurt * disfigure * wound * mar * impair

* praise * help * preserve * benefit

(obsolete) Physically to damage; to injure.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.xi:

he saw himselfe so freshly reare, / As if late fight had nought him damnifyde [...].

* 1638 , , Some Yeares Travels , I:

The infectious raines most damnifying the poore saylers, who must be upon the decks to hand in their sailes, abiding the brunt [...].

(legal) To cause injuries or loss to.