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say it: in-DEM-nuh-fahy
indemnify is a verb meaning "secure against future loss, damage, or liability; give security for". It carries 2 recorded senses.
secure against future loss, damage, or liability; give security for
“This plan indemnifies workers against wages lost through illness”
make amends for; pay compensation for
“One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich”
“She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for indemnify come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.