n
Initialism of actual bodily harm. [(Britain, law) Hurt or injury which interferes with the health or comfort of the victim and which is more than transient or trifling.]
v
(transitive, obsolete) To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
v
(provincial, Northern England) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living.
n
The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
n
One who ambushes, or who is involved in an ambush.
adj
Alternative spelling of backstabbing
n
The act of one who backstabs.
v
To dumb down, cheapen, or vulgarize something, especially to create entertainment that appeals to coarse or unsophisticated tastes.
v
(transitive, rare, nonstandard) Synonym of defraud.
v
(transitive) To deceive; mock.
v
(transitive, archaic) To betray.
v
(transitive) To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
n
The act of one who blackmails.
v
(law, informal, transitive, usually passive) To charge or convict (someone) of breaching the terms of a bail, probation, recognizance, etc.
n
The act of prevailing over another by fraud or deception
v
(idiomatic, by extension) To falsify an account of an event.
v
To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
adj
Relating to or resembling a deal-breaker.
n
Someone or something that disrupts.
n
(archaic) diversion; amusement; recreation
v
(rare, chiefly literary) Render chaste.
n
One who or that which envenoms.
v
to eroticise, make erotic
n
One who practices extortion.
n
Someone who extorts; an extortioner.
n
A muscle that carries out extorsion.
n
One who foils or frustrates.
n
The act by which something is foiled; prevention of success.
v
Obsolete spelling of foil [(transitive) To cover or wrap with foil.]
n
One who, or that which, friezes or frizzes.
v
(transitive) To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.
n
One who engages in the psychological tactic of gaslighting.
n
The act by which somebody is goaded.
v
(transitive) To deceive by luring with a false promise or misleading implication.
v
Archaic spelling of entice. [(transitive) To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.]
v
(transitive) To obtain through guile or cunning.
v
(idiomatic) To tell an obvious untruth.
n
One who, or that which, lulls.
n
One who excites contentions and quarrels; an instigator.
n
One who means or intends something.
n
(historical) violation of a mund (security granted by a king or earl)
v
(transitive, slang) To arbitrarily limit or reduce the capability of.
n
The act of outwitting somebody.
n
One who disturbs the public peace.
n
One who engages in price gouging.
n
A person who provokes; a troublemaker
n
one who instigates or has involvement with a racket.
n
(law) repeated actual bodily harm
v
(intransitive) To deceive or trick using a ruse.
v
To deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful.
n
A person who intentionally causes the destruction of property in order to hinder the efforts of their enemy.
v
(transitive, slang) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
v
To get by an underhanded way.
n
The act by which something is stormed.
n
The act of one who tampers.
n
A person or product that hastens the obsolescence of another person or product.
v
To amuse, entertain, or appeal to someone; to stimulate someone's imagination in a favorable manner.
v
(archaic) To entice; to allure or attract.
n
(archaic) A person delegated to torture prisoners.
v
(transitive, slang, dated) To please or impress someone.
n
(Australia, colloquial) The action or process of bringing down from within, undermining, sabotage.
n
(politics) An amendment made in bad faith by a legislator who disagrees with the principles of a bill and seeks to make it useless rather than simply voting against it.
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