1. To compensate someone for a specified loss or damage under the relevant arrangement.
2. To undertake to protect someone against specified loss or liability.
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Words that belong together
- indemnify someone for a loss
- indemnify a party
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The agreement required the party to indemnify the owner for the covered loss.
The insurer indemnified the claimant within the policy’s stated limits.
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Word forms
- Base
- indemnify
- Past tense
- indemnified
- Past participle
- indemnified
- Present participle
- indemnifying
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- indemnify
- Present continuous
- am/is/are indemnifying
- Present perfect
- have/has indemnified
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been indemnifying
- Past
- indemnified
- Past continuous
- was/were indemnifying
- Past perfect
- had indemnified
- Past perfect continuous
- had been indemnifying
- Future
- will indemnify
- Future continuous
- will be indemnifying
- Future perfect
- will have indemnified
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been indemnifying
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: indemnify; indemnifies; indemnified; indemnified; indemnifying Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: responsibility analysis, evidence qualification, ethical distinction, institutional judgment. Disciplines: academic writing, ethics, legal-administrative reasoning. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: indemnifies.
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