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Etymology

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From Middle English endamagen, from Old French endamagier.

Verb

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endamage (third-person singular simple present endamages, present participle endamaging, simple past and past participle endamaged)

  1. (archaic) To damage.
    Synonym: (Scotland, obsolete, rare) tinsel
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      Ne ought he car'd, whom he endamaged / By tortious wrong, or whom bereau'd of right.
    • a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “Witchcraft by a picture”, in Poems, [] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: [] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, [], published 1633, →OCLC:
      My picture vanish'd, vanish feares, / That I can be endamag'd by that art […].