| curse | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. curse, curse word, cuss, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword | profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.; "expletives were deleted" |
| ~ profanity | vulgar or irreverent speech or action. |
| n. (communication) | 2. condemnation, curse, execration | an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group. |
| ~ denouncement, denunciation | a public act of denouncing. |
| ~ anathema | a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication. |
| ~ imprecation, malediction | the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult).; "he suffered the imprecations of the mob" |
| n. (communication) | 3. curse, hex, jinx, whammy | an evil spell.; "a witch put a curse on his whole family"; "he put the whammy on me" |
| ~ magic spell, magical spell, charm, spell | a verbal formula believed to have magical force.; "he whispered a spell as he moved his hands"; "inscribed around its base is a charm in Balinese" |
| n. (state) | 4. bane, curse, nemesis, scourge | something causing misery or death.; "the bane of my life" |
| ~ affliction | a cause of great suffering and distress. |
| n. (event) | 5. curse, torment | a severe affliction. |
| ~ affliction | a cause of great suffering and distress. |
| v. (communication) | 6. blaspheme, curse, cuss, imprecate, swear | utter obscenities or profanities.; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street" |
| ~ blaspheme | speak of in an irreverent or impious manner.; "blaspheme God" |
| ~ give tongue to, utter, express, verbalise, verbalize | articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise.; "She expressed her anger"; "He uttered a curse" |
| v. (communication) | 7. curse | heap obscenities upon.; "The taxi driver who felt he didn't get a high enough tip cursed the passenger" |
| ~ blackguard, clapperclaw, abuse, shout | use foul or abusive language towards.; "The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket"; "The angry mother shouted at the teacher" |
| v. (communication) | 8. anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict | wish harm upon; invoke evil upon.; "The bad witch cursed the child" |
| ~ bring up, call down, conjure, conjure up, invoke, call forth, arouse, put forward, evoke, stir, raise | summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic.; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain" |
| v. (communication) | 9. curse, excommunicate, unchurch | exclude from a church or a religious community.; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner" |
| ~ excommunicate | oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree. |
| ~ keep out, shut out, exclude, shut | prevent from entering; shut out.; "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country" |
| 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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