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Definition: DAMNIFY |
DAMNIFYTransitive verb1. To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to impair. |
Date "DAMNIFY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Damnify; (aggrieve); do one's worst; knock down; deal a blow to; play havoc with, play sad havoc with, play the mischief with, play the deuce with, play the very devil with, play havoc among, play sad havoc among, play the mischief among, play the deuce among, play the very devil among; decimate. |
Inexpedience | Verb: be hurtful; Adjective: cause evil, produce evil, inflict evil, work evil, do evil; damnify, endamage, hurt, harm; injure; (damage); pain. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DAMNIFY |
| English words defined with "DAMNIFY": Endamnify. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "DAMNIFY": Endamnify. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "DAMNIFY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dëmtoj (affect, batter, blast, blight, break, concuss, cripple, damage, deface, disorder, do harm, harm, hurt, impair, injure, kill, make mischief, mess, nip, prejudice, scathe, spoil, vitiate, wrench), ofendoj (grieve, injure, insult, mortify, offend, outrage, revile), fyej (affront, aggrieve, deal, desecrate, disoblige, displease, grieve, injure, insult, offend, outrage, pique, revile, trespass, vex, vituperate). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | увреждам (harm, injure, prejudice, waste), причинявам вреда. (various references) | |
Czech | zranit (hurt, injure, wound). (various references) | |
Farsi | صدمه زدن (Harm, Mar, Maul, Nip, Offend, Scathe), خسارت زدن . (various references) | |
Hungarian | megkárosít valakit. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amnifyday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | prejudicar (bane, crack, damage, disservice, encroachment, harm, hinder, hurt, impair, inhibit, injured, jeopardize, jeopardy, pocket knife, prejudge, prejudice, prevent, queer, scathe, spoil, upset), lesar (attack, encroach, prejudice). (various references) | |
Russian | причинять вред (do harm, scathe). (various references) | |
Spanish | decir maldición (damn). (various references) | |
Swedish | tillfoga skada (cause harm). (various references) | |
Ukranian | ображати (abuse, affront, dishonor, dishonour, frump, huff, humiliate, injure, insult, offend, outrage, revile, umbrage), завдавати шкоди (blight, disadvantage, do harm). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DAMNIFY": damnifying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "DAMNIFY" (pronounced 'Dam"ni*fy'): Acidify, Adsignify, Aerify, Alacrify, Angelify, Anglicify, Anglify, Arefy, Argufy, Balmify, Basify, Beatify, Bonify, Brutify, Candify, Capacify, Carnify, Celestify, Certify, Chondrify, Chylify, Chymify, Classify, Cockneyfy, Codify, Consignify, Corporify, Correctify, Countrify, Crucify, Cuffy, Daintify, Dandify, Decalcify, Deify, Demideify, Denitrify, Devitrify, Dezincify, Diabolify, Dignify, Disacidify, Disdeify, Disedify, Disglorify, Disguisedfy, Disqualify, Dissatisfy, Dissyllabify, Diversify, Divinify, Domify, Dulcify, Duncify, Emulsify, Endamnify, Eternify, Exemplify, Fecundify, Fe-licify, Finify, Fishify, Foolify, Foresignify, Frenchify, Fumify, Glorify, gratify, Hornify, horrify, Humanify, Ignify, indemnify, Indignify, interstratify, jellify, jiffy, Labefy, Ladify, lenify, Madefy, malignify, Mercify, Mercurify, Metrify, minify, modify, mollify, Mummify, Mundify, Munify, Mystify, Neatify, Netify, Nitrify, Nobilify, Notify, Nugify, Nullify, Objectify, Obstupefy, Omnify, Overmagnify, Pacify, Personify, Preachify, Presignify, Pretypify, Putrify, ratify, Recarnify, rectify, Reedify, Refortify, Remodify, Repacify, Repurify, revivify, rubify, Russify, saccharify, Salify, Salsafy, salsify, sanctify, Sanguify, saponify, scarify, Scorify, signify, simplify, specify, speechify, squiffy, Stellify, Stiltify, Storify, stratify, stultify, stupefy, Suavify, Subdiversify, syllabify, Tabefy, taffy, Tepefy, Terrestrify, terrify, Tipsify, Torpify, Torrefy, transmogrify, uglify, Undeify, Unglorify, unify, Unnotify, Unqualify, Varify, Vilify, Vivify, Zincify. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-f-i-m-n-y" | |
-1 letter: infamy. | |
-3 letters: amid, amin, ayin, damn, fain, find, maid, main, many, mina, mind, myna, naif. | |
-4 letters: aid, aim, ain, ami, and, ani, any, dam, day, dim, din, fad, fan, fay, fid, fin, mad, man, may, mid, nam, nay, nim, yam, yid, yin. | |
-5 letters: ad, ai, am, an, ay, fa, id, if, in, ma, mi, my, na, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-f-i-m-n-y" | |
+3 letters: damnifying, manifoldly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 41 4D 4E 49 46 59 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- -- -. .. ..-. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000001 01001101 01001110 01001001 01000110 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D A M N I F Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0041 004D 004E 0049 0046 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38354748434059 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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