| bad | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. bad, badness | that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency.; "take the bad with the good" |
| ~ quality | an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone.; "the quality of mercy is not strained" |
| ~ unworthiness | the quality or state of lacking merit or value. |
| ~ undesirability | the quality possessed by something that should be avoided. |
| ~ worse | something inferior in quality or condition or effect.; "for better or for worse"; "accused of cheating and lying and worse" |
| ~ evil | that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune.; "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones" |
| ~ unsoundness | not mentally or physically healthy.; "no one can be a poet without a certain unsoundness of mind" |
| ~ liability | the quality of being something that holds you back. |
| ~ inadvisability | the quality of being ill-advised. |
| adj. | 2. bad | having undesirable or negative qualities.; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" |
| ~ worst | (superlative of `bad') most wanting in quality or value or condition.; "the worst player on the team"; "the worst weather of the year" |
| ~ worse | (comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability.; "this road is worse than the first one we took"; "the road is in worse shape than it was"; "she was accused of worse things than cheating and lying" |
| ~ unfavorable, unfavourable | not encouraging or approving or pleasing.; "unfavorable conditions"; "an unfavorable comparison"; "unfavorable comments"; "unfavorable impression" |
| ~ awful, abominable, atrocious, dreadful, terrible, unspeakable, painful | exceptionally bad or displeasing.; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" |
| ~ corked, corky | (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin.; "a corked port" |
| ~ deplorable, lamentable, distressing, pitiful, sorry, sad | bad; unfortunate.; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" |
| ~ frightful, fearful | extremely distressing.; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake" |
| ~ tough, hard | unfortunate or hard to bear.; "had hard luck"; "a tough break" |
| ~ hopeless | (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform.; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic" |
| ~ horrid | exceedingly bad.; "when she was bad she was horrid" |
| ~ crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky | very bad.; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" |
| ~ ill | distressing.; "ill manners"; "of ill repute" |
| ~ unskilled, incompetent | not doing a good job.; "incompetent at chess" |
| ~ mediocre | poor to middling in quality.; "there have been good and mediocre and bad artists" |
| ~ naughty | badly behaved.; "a naughty boy" |
| ~ negative | having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant.; "ran a negative campaign"; "delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life" |
| ~ poor | unsatisfactory.; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor" |
| ~ pretty | (used ironically) unexpectedly bad.; "a pretty mess"; "a pretty kettle of fish" |
| ~ rubber, no-good | returned for lack of funds.; "a rubber check"; "a no-good check" |
| ~ severe | very bad in degree or extent.; "a severe worldwide depression"; "the house suffered severe damage" |
| ~ swingeing | severe; punishingly bad.; "swingeing taxation"; "swingeing damages awarded by the judge" |
| ~ uncool | (spoken slang) unfashionable and boring. |
| ~ unfavorable, unfavourable | not favorable.; "made an unfavorable impression"; "unfavorable reviews" |
| ~ unsuitable | not conducive to good moral development.; "the movie is unsuitable for children" |
| ~ evil | morally bad or wrong.; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" |
| ~ disobedient | not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority.; "disobedient children" |
| adj. | 3. bad, big | very intense.; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm" |
| ~ intense | possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree.; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense" |
| adj. | 4. bad, tough | feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad').; "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ uncomfortable | providing or experiencing physical discomfort.; "an uncomfortable chair"; "an uncomfortable day in the hot sun" |
| adj. | 5. bad, spoiled, spoilt | (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition.; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food" |
| ~ stale | lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age.; "stale bread"; "the beer was stale" |
| adj. | 6. bad, regretful, sorry | feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone.; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase" |
| ~ penitent, repentant | feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds. |
| adj. | 7. bad, uncollectible | not capable of being collected.; "a bad (or uncollectible) debt" |
| ~ invalid | having no cogency or legal force.; "invalid reasoning"; "an invalid driver's license" |
| adj. | 8. bad | below average in quality or performance.; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital" |
| ~ inferior | of low or inferior quality. |
| adj. | 9. bad | nonstandard.; "so-called bad grammar" |
| ~ linguistics | the scientific study of language. |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ nonstandard | not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community.; "a nonstandard dialect is one used by uneducated speakers or socially disfavored groups"; "the common core of nonstandard words and phrases in folk speech" |
| adj. | 10. bad, high-risk, risky, speculative | not financially safe or secure.; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises" |
| ~ unsound | not sound financially.; "unsound banking practices" |
| adj. | 11. bad, unfit, unsound | physically unsound or diseased.; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth" |
| ~ unhealthy | not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind.; "unhealthy ulcers" |
| adj. | 12. bad | capable of harming.; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you" |
| ~ harmful | causing or capable of causing harm.; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking" |
| adj. | 13. bad | characterized by wickedness or immorality.; "led a very bad life" |
| ~ evil | morally bad or wrong.; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" |
| adj. | 14. bad, forged | reproduced fraudulently.; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged twenty dollar bill" |
| ~ counterfeit, imitative | not genuine; imitating something superior.; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince" |
| adj. | 15. bad, defective | not working properly.; "a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance" |
| ~ malfunctioning, nonfunctional | not performing or able to perform its regular function.; "a malfunctioning valve" |
| adv. | 16. bad, badly | with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly').; "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were badly shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad" |
| adv. | 17. bad, badly | very much; strongly.; "I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly in need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it" |
| depraved | | |
| adj. | 1. depraved, perverse, perverted, reprobate | deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good.; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat" |
| ~ corrupt | lacking in integrity.; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government" |
| harmful | | |
| adj. | 1. harmful | causing or capable of causing harm.; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking" |
| ~ disadvantageous | constituting a disadvantage. |
| ~ malign | evil or harmful in nature or influence.; "prompted by malign motives"; "believed in witches and malign spirits"; "gave him a malign look"; "a malign lesion" |
| ~ destructive | causing destruction or much damage.; "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism" |
| ~ abusive | characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment.; "abusive punishment"; "argued...that foster homes are abusive" |
| ~ bad | capable of harming.; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you" |
| ~ bruising | causing mental or emotional injury.; "a bruising experience"; "protected from the bruising facts of battle" |
| ~ deleterious, injurious, hurtful | harmful to living things.; "deleterious chemical additives" |
| ~ calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous | (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign. |
| ~ catastrophic, ruinous | extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin.; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action" |
| ~ counterproductive | tending to hinder the achievement of a goal. |
| ~ damaging, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious | (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury.; "damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant" |
| ~ ill | resulting in suffering or adversity.; "ill effects"; "it's an ill wind that blows no good" |
| ~ pernicious, insidious, subtle | working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way.; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison" |
| ~ mischievous | deliberately causing harm or damage.; "mischievous rumors and falsehoods" |
| ~ nocent | having a tendency to cause harm. |
| ~ stabbing, wounding | causing physical or especially psychological injury.; "a stabbing remark"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty" |
| ~ noxious | injurious to physical or mental health.; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas" |
| ~ offensive | causing anger or annoyance.; "offensive remarks" |
| ~ painful | causing physical or psychological pain.; "worked with painful slowness" |
| ~ toxic | of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison.; "suffering from exposure to toxic substances" |
| ~ unwholesome | detrimental to physical or moral well-being.; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking" |
| lousy | | |
| adj. | 1. crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky | very bad.; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ bad | having undesirable or negative qualities.; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" |
| adj. | 2. lousy | infested with lice.; "burned their lousy clothes" |
| ~ dirty, soiled, unclean | soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime.; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves" |
| adj. | 3. dirty, filthy, lousy | vile; despicable.; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor" |
| ~ nasty, awful | offensive or even (of persons) malicious.; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?" |
| mean | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. mean, mean value | an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n. |
| ~ statistics | a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters. |
| ~ average, norm | a statistic describing the location of a distribution.; "it set the norm for American homes" |
| ~ arithmetic mean, expected value, first moment, expectation | the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values. |
| ~ geometric mean | the mean of n numbers expressed as the n-th root of their product. |
| ~ harmonic mean | the mean of n numbers expressed as the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of the numbers. |
| v. (communication) | 2. intend, mean | mean or intend to express or convey.; "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?" |
| ~ stand for, symbolize, represent, symbolise, typify | express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol.; "What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?" |
| ~ convey | make known; pass on, of information.; "She conveyed the message to me" |
| ~ signify | convey or express a meaning.; "These words mean nothing to me!"; "What does his strange behavior signify?" |
| ~ spell, import | indicate or signify.; "I'm afraid this spells trouble!" |
| ~ aim | direct (a remark) toward an intended goal.; "She wanted to aim a pun" |
| ~ aim, drive, get | move into a desired direction of discourse.; "What are you driving at?" |
| v. (stative) | 3. entail, imply, mean | have as a logical consequence.; "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers" |
| ~ necessitate | cause to be a concomitant. |
| v. (communication) | 4. intend, mean, signify, stand for | denote or connote.; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means" |
| ~ denote, refer | have as a meaning.; "`multi-' denotes `many' " |
| ~ signify | convey or express a meaning.; "These words mean nothing to me!"; "What does his strange behavior signify?" |
| v. (cognition) | 5. intend, mean, think | have in mind as a purpose.; "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night" |
| ~ design | intend or have as a purpose.; "She designed to go far in the world of business" |
| ~ be after, plan | have the will and intention to carry out some action.; "He plans to be in graduate school next year"; "The rebels had planned turmoil and confusion" |
| ~ purpose, aim, purport, propose | propose or intend.; "I aim to arrive at noon" |
| v. (stative) | 6. mean | have a specified degree of importance.; "My ex-husband means nothing to me"; "Happiness means everything" |
| v. (cognition) | 7. have in mind, mean, think of | intend to refer to.; "I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France"; "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!" |
| ~ associate, colligate, link, relate, connect, tie in, link up | make a logical or causal connection.; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all" |
| ~ cite, mention, refer, advert, name, bring up | make reference to.; "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention" |
| v. (cognition) | 8. mean | destine or designate for a certain purpose.; "These flowers were meant for you" |
| ~ destine, intend, designate, specify | design or destine.; "She was intended to become the director" |
| adj. | 9. average, mean | approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.; "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall" |
| ~ statistics | a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters. |
| ~ normal | conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal.; "serve wine at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order"; "normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events" |
| adj. | 10. hateful, mean | characterized by malice.; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood" |
| ~ nasty, awful | offensive or even (of persons) malicious.; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?" |
| adj. | 11. base, mean, meanspirited | having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality.; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics" |
| ~ ignoble | completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose.; "something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part" |
| adj. | 12. mean | excellent.; "famous for a mean backhand" |
| ~ argot, jargon, lingo, patois, vernacular, slang, cant | a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).; "they don't speak our lingo" |
| ~ skilled | having or showing or requiring special skill.; "only the most skilled gymnasts make an Olympic team"; "a skilled surgeon has many years of training and experience"; "a skilled reconstruction of her damaged elbow"; "a skilled trade" |
| adj. | 13. beggarly, mean | marked by poverty befitting a beggar.; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut" |
| ~ poor | characterized by or indicating poverty.; "the country had a poor economy"; "they lived in the poor section of town" |
| adj. | 14. mean, mingy, miserly, tight | (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity.; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip" |
| ~ stingy, ungenerous | unwilling to spend.; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" |
| adj. | 15. beggarly, mean | (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt. |
| ~ stingy, ungenerous | unwilling to spend.; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" |
| adj. | 16. bastardly, mean | of no value or worth.; "I was caught in the bastardly traffic" |
| ~ contemptible | deserving of contempt or scorn. |
| nefarious | | |
| adj. | 1. nefarious, villainous | extremely wicked.; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves" |
| ~ wicked | morally bad in principle or practice. |
| pernicious | | |
| adj. | 1. baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent | exceedingly harmful. |
| ~ noxious | injurious to physical or mental health.; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas" |
| adj. | 2. insidious, pernicious, subtle | working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way.; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison" |
| ~ harmful | causing or capable of causing harm.; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking" |
| vile | | |
| adj. | 1. despicable, slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched | morally reprehensible.; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar" |
| ~ evil | morally bad or wrong.; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" |
| adj. | 2. loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile | causing or able to cause nausea.; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" |
| ~ unwholesome | detrimental to physical or moral well-being.; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking" |
| gaunt | | |
| adj. | 1. bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted | very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" |
| ~ lean, thin | lacking excess flesh.; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look" |
| sorcery | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. black art, black magic, necromancy, sorcery | the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world. |
| ~ magic, thaumaturgy | any art that invokes supernatural powers. |
| ~ witchcraft, witchery | the art of sorcery. |
| ~ bewitchment, enchantment | a magical spell. |
| ~ demonism, diabolism, satanism | a belief in and reverence for devils (especially Satan). |
| ~ obiism | belief in a kind of sorcery that originated in Africa and is practiced in the West Indies. |
| damage | | |
| n. (event) | 1. damage, harm, impairment | the occurrence of a change for the worse. |
| ~ alteration, change, modification | an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another.; "the change was intended to increase sales"; "this storm is certainly a change for the worse"; "the neighborhood had undergone few modifications since his last visit years ago" |
| ~ detriment, hurt | a damage or loss. |
| ~ deformation, distortion | a change for the worse. |
| ~ ravel, ladder, run | a row of unravelled stitches.; "she got a run in her stocking" |
| n. (event) | 2. damage, equipment casualty | loss of military equipment. |
| ~ battle damage, combat casualty | loss of military equipment in battle. |
| ~ operational casualty, operational damage | loss of military equipment in field operations. |
| ~ casualty | a decrease of military personnel or equipment. |
| ~ armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | the military forces of a nation.; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
| n. (act) | 3. damage, harm, hurt, scathe | the act of damaging something or someone. |
| ~ change of integrity | the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something. |
| ~ impairment | damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality. |
| ~ defacement, disfiguration, disfigurement | the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something.; "the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion"; "he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape" |
| ~ wounding, wound | the act of inflicting a wound. |
| ~ burn | damage inflicted by fire. |
| ~ defloration | an act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something. |
| n. (possession) | 4. damage, price, terms | the amount of money needed to purchase something.; "the price of gasoline"; "he got his new car on excellent terms"; "how much is the damage?" |
| ~ cost | the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor. |
| ~ asking price, selling price | the price at which something is offered for sale. |
| ~ bid price | (stock market) the price at which a broker is willing to buy a certain security. |
| ~ closing price | (stock market) the price of the last transaction completed during a day's trading session. |
| ~ factory price | price charged for goods picked up at the factory. |
| ~ highway robbery | an exorbitant price.; "what they are asking for gas these days is highway robbery" |
| ~ purchase price | the price at which something is actually purchased. |
| ~ cash price, spot price | the current delivery price of a commodity traded in the spot market. |
| ~ support level | (stock market) the price at which a certain security becomes attractive to investors. |
| ~ valuation | assessed price.; "the valuation of this property is much too high" |
| n. (act) | 5. damage, legal injury, wrong | any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right. |
| ~ injury | wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted. |
| v. (change) | 6. damage | inflict damage upon.; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ burn | burn with heat, fire, or radiation.; "The iron burnt a hole in my dress" |
| ~ frost | damage by frost.; "The icy precipitation frosted the flowers and they turned brown" |
| ~ bilge | cause to leak.; "the collision bilged the vessel" |
| ~ break | render inoperable or ineffective.; "You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!" |
| ~ total | damage beyond the point of repair.; "My son totaled our new car"; "the rock star totals his guitar at every concert" |
| ~ bruise | damage (plant tissue) by abrasion or pressure.; "The customer bruised the strawberries by squeezing them" |
| ~ disturb | damage as if by shaking or jarring.; "Don't disturb the patient's wounds by moving him too rapidly!" |
| ~ afflict, smite | cause physical pain or suffering in.; "afflict with the plague" |
| ~ injure, hurt | cause damage or affect negatively.; "Our business was hurt by the new competition" |
| ~ impair | make worse or less effective.; "His vision was impaired" |
| ~ flaw, blemish | add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective. |
| ~ corrode, rust, eat | cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid.; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink" |
| ~ eat away, erode, fret | remove soil or rock.; "Rain eroded the terraces" |
| ~ mutilate, cut up, mangle | destroy or injure severely.; "The madman mutilates art work" |
| ~ shatter | damage or destroy.; "The news of her husband's death shattered her life" |
| ~ mar, deflower, impair, vitiate, spoil | make imperfect.; "nothing marred her beauty" |
| ~ wear away, whittle away, whittle down | cut away in small pieces. |
| ~ bang up, smash up, smash | damage or destroy as if by violence.; "The teenager banged up the car of his mother" |
| v. (change) | 7. damage | suffer or be susceptible to damage.; "These fine china cups damage easily" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| go bad | | |
| v. (change) | 1. break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad | stop operating or functioning.; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ break | render inoperable or ineffective.; "You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!" |
| ~ buy the farm, cash in one's chips, croak, decease, die, drop dead, give-up the ghost, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, snuff it, expire, pop off, conk, exit, choke, go, pass | pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" |
| ~ go down, crash | stop operating.; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week" |
| ~ blow out, burn out, blow | melt, break, or become otherwise unusable.; "The lightbulbs blew out"; "The fuse blew" |
| ~ misfire | fail to fire or detonate.; "The guns misfired" |
| ~ malfunction, misfunction | fail to function or function improperly.; "the coffee maker malfunctioned" |
| v. (change) | 2. go bad, spoil | become unfit for consumption or use.; "the meat must be eaten before it spoils" |
| ~ addle | become rotten.; "addled eggs" |
| ~ curdle | go bad or sour.; "The milk curdled" |
| ~ decay | undergo decay or decomposition.; "The body started to decay and needed to be cremated" |
| ravage | | |
| n. (event) | 1. depredation, ravage | (usually plural) a destructive action.; "the ravages of time"; "the depredations of age and disease" |
| ~ plural, plural form | the form of a word that is used to denote more than one. |
| ~ demolition, wipeout, destruction | an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something. |
| v. (change) | 2. harry, ravage | make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes. |
| ~ ruin, destroy | destroy completely; damage irreparably.; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up" |
| v. (change) | 3. desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste | cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" |
| ~ ruin, destroy | destroy completely; damage irreparably.; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up" |
| ~ ruin | reduce to ruins.; "The country lay ruined after the war" |
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