Concept cluster: Negative qualities > Causing harm or damage
v
(transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
n
(Britain, law) Hurt or injury which interferes with the health or comfort of the victim and which is more than transient or trifling.
n
(medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
n
One who, or that which, begrimes.
n
The act of sullying or besmirching.
n
The act of defaming or sullying.
v
(idiomatic) To make damaging or spiteful remarks.
n
A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
v
(hyperbolic) To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.
n
Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
v
(obsolete) To damage physically; to injure.
n
(UK dialectal) Hurt; harm; injury.
n
Harm, hurt, damage.
v
(obsolete) To devastate.
v
To undo the arrangement of; to disorder; to derange.
v
(archaic) To defeat completely; to rout.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To torture; to excruciate.
n
An act of distorting.
n
(obsolete) damage; hurt
v
(archaic) To damage.
n
(obsolete) damage; injury; harm
v
(obsolete) To suffer.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To strongly denounce or censure.
adv
So as to excoriate.
adj
(obsolete, rare) Distracted.
v
(intransitive, figuratively) To make a verbal attack.
n
physical injury; hurt; damage
v
Said of an injury or illness.
n
(archaic) Injury; damage; detriment; harm
v
Obsolete spelling of hurt [(transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.]
adj
impeded; afflicted with an impediment
v
Alternative form of endamage [(archaic) To damage.]
v
(transitive) To damage or impair.
n
(informal) The victim in a situation, the person treated unfairly.
n
Other forms of damage sustained by a living thing, e.g. psychologically.
v
(transitive) To harm or injure by such action.
n
(Isle of Man) Damage; harm.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To hurt.
v
(transitive) To wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure.
n
One who maltreats someone or something.
v
Obsolete form of menace. [(transitive) To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.]
n
Infliction of violent injury on a person or thing.
n
One who, or that which, mortifies
v
(obsolete, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
v
(nonstandard, Internet slang, transitive) To leave negative feedback in a reputation tracking system.
n
One who or that which perturbs.
v
(transitive) To cause (someone) to hate or to have unfair negative opinions.
n
(law) Damage to the psyche caused by an event that may lead to a tort action (lawsuit) or other compensation claim.
v
(transitive or intransitive) To suggest
n
(countable, uncountable) A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To cause great humiliation or harm to (someone or something); to cause great damage to (something, especially from behind).
v
(intransitive) To feel pain.
adj
(figuratively, by extension, of one's reputation, name or word) Sullied or dishonored.
n
tarnishing
n
One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering.
n
Someone who tortures.
n
One who causes trauma.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To deliver from the state of a fool; to awaken the mind of; to undeceive.
v
(transitive, dated, formal) To treat (something) as inconsequential or worthless; to despise, to look down on.
v
(obsolete) To do damage (to).
v
(archaic, transitive) To wound, cause to become vulnerable.

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