Third-person singular present tense of damnify; to harm, injure, or cause loss or damage to someone.
From damnify in the third-person singular form, from Latin damnificare. The -ies ending follows standard English verb conjugation patterns.
This verb is almost never heard in modern speech, yet it persists in legal and formal writing — it's like discovering a dinosaur bone in a law library, a relic of when educated people used Latin-derived words for everyday concepts.
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