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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To protect against damage, loss, or injury; insure.
  2. v. To make compensation to for damage, loss, or injury suffered.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To preserve or secure against loss, damage, or penalty; save harmless: followed by against, formerly by from.
  2. To make good to; reimburse; remunerate: followed by for.
  3. To engage to make good or secure against anticipated loss; give security against (future damage or liability). Synonyms Compensate, Recompense, Remunerate, Reimburse, Indemnify, Requite. Compensate and recompense are very general words for paying or rendering an equivalent, in money or otherwise. Either of them may mean to make a loss good to one. Remunerate has not this meaning, being confined to the idea of payment for expense or service with money or its equivalent. To reimburse a person is to make a loss or expenditure good to him with money. Indemnify formerly meant to save a person from damage or loss, but now much more often means to make good after loss or the damage of property. To requite is to render a full return. Requite is perhaps more often used in a bad sense. Archaically recompense may be used in a good or a bad sense for return: as, “Recompense to no man evil for evil,” Rom. xii. 17; “Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness,” Confucius, Analects (trans.), i. 4. The others are always used in a good sense. See requital.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To secure against loss or damage; to insure.
  2. v. To compensate or reimburse someone for some expense or injury

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure.
  2. v. To make restitution or compensation for, as for that which is lost; to make whole; to reimburse; to compensate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make amends for; pay compensation for
  2. v. secure against future loss, damage, or liability; give security for

Etymologies

  1. From Latin indemnis (" unhurt"), from in- ("not") + damnum ("hurt, damage"). Compare damn, damnify. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin indemnis, uninjured (in-, not; see in-1 + damnum, harm, damage entailing liability) + -fy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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Words with the same meaning

  1. insure
  1. reimburse
  1. compensate

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  1. cover
  1. underwrite
  1. insure

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. compensate
  2. recompense
  3. reimburse
  4. remunerate
  1. remuneration
  2. requite
  3. insurer
  4. insurance
  1. fire insurance
  2. indemnitor
  3. answerable
  4. assure
  1. policy
  2. premium
  3. recoup
  4. repair
  1. warrant
  2. guarantee
  3. refund
  4. restaur
  1. warrandice

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