Concept cluster: Negative qualities > Retaliation or revenge
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(transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.
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(obsolete) Injury; degradation; ruin.
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One who afflicts.
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The practice or habit of launching attacks.
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One who annoys.
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(obsolete) Attainted; corrupted.
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(intransitive, obsolete) To take vengeance.
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The characteristic of being bedeviled.
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One who belittles.
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(transitive) To calumniate; to revile; to abuse.
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(rhetoric) Exposure of an opponent's secret wickedness, especially in the opponent's presence.
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(transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
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An act of causing damage.
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That which causes damage or loss.
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(law) harm; detriment
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one who daunts
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Alternative form of debacle. [An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.]
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The act of injuring another person's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another.
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(transitive) To harshly mock; ridicule.
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One who disorders.
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(slang) An insult or put-down; an expression of disrespect.
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(obsolete) Something unsightly; an eyesore.
n
Alternative form of dortour
v
(transitive) To damnify; to injure.
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(archaic) to make famous
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vilify
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(metaphoric) Extensive and possibly excessive criticism of an idea by presenting an overwhelming number of arguments against it.
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(Internet slang) Vitriolic criticism.
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(informal) To subject (someone) to a hate crime; to commit a hate crime (against).
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One who is hurt.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To bastardize; to debase.
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(transitive) To make infamous; to defame or smear.
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(transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To assail, assault, or attack; (specifically, military) to carry out an assault, attack, or onset without preparation.
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Harm, especially verbal, added to another, usually more substantive.
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Something spoken or written, intended to cast shame, disgrace, censure, or reproach on another.
v
(obsolete, early 20th century, US, usually derogatory) To harshly criticize, to use the press to condemn a rival business.
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One who loathes.
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(law) The crime of damaging things or harming people on purpose.
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(countable) An injury or an instance of harm or trouble caused by a person or other agent or cause.
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One who has been molested.
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(transitive, usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
adj
(of a word or passage of text) Marked with an obelus or obelisk; condemned as spurious or corrupt.
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(transitive) To subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse.
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Synonym of whistle-belly vengeance
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One who pities.
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Obsolete spelling of revenge [Any form of personal, retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some alleged or perceived harm or injustice.]
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(transitive, intransitive) To attack (someone) with abusive language.
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(obsolete, rare) To perplex with scruples; to regard with scruples.
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To insult or slight.
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(transitive) To characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata.
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One who is subjected to torture; a torture victim.
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An act of torture
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The practice or policy of social or political upheaval.
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(transitive) To say defamatory things about someone or something; to speak ill of.
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(transitive) To subject to bitter verbal abuse.
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The act of vitriolizing someone; the act of committing an acid attack.
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To subject to the action of, or impregnate with, vitriol.
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(transitive, dated) To injure (a person) with sulphuric acid, as by throwing it upon the face.
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To criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner.

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