endamage

[ en-dam-ij ]

verb (used with object)

, en·dam·aged, en·dam·ag·ing.

1. to damage.

endamage

/ ɛnˈdæmɪdʒ /

verb

1. tr to cause injury to; damage

Derived Forms

• enˈdamagement, noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of endamage¹

1325–75; Middle English < Anglo-French; en- ¹, damage

Example Sentences

"By day they would not dare come within the range of our calivers; they know that by night we can but fire at random, and endamage them little."

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Endamage, en-dam′āj, v.t. same as Damage.—n.

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There be," says he, "in divers parts of France, and specially at Nantes, wooden bridges, where, to break the force of the waters and of the floating ice, which might endamage the piers of the said bridges, they have driven upright timbers into the bed of the rivers above the said piers, without the which they should abide but little.

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Where your good word cannot advantage him, Your slander never can endamage him; Therefore the office is indifferent, 45 Being entreated to it by your friend.

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None shall fire upon any ship of the enemy that is laid aboard by any of our own ships, but so that he may be sure he endamage not his friend.

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