endamage

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verb

To damage.

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tinsel
OriginMiddle English endamagen ← Old French endamagier →
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Meanings

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

present singular third person endamages · participle present endamaging · participle past endamaged · past endamaged

  1. archaicTo damage.

    My picture vanish'd, vanish feares, / That I can be endamag'd by that art […].

    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
    1 more example

    Ne ought he car'd, whom he endamaged / By tortious wrong, or whom bereau'd of right.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

    Synonyms: tinsel

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo damage.

Similar
tinsel
Also see
tinsel

Origin

  1. Old Frenchendamagier
  2. Middle Englishendamagen
  3. Englishendamage

From Middle English endamagen, from Old French endamagier.

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APA

endamage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endamage

MLA

“endamage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endamage. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “endamage,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endamage.

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