| damaging | | |
| adj. | 1. 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" |
| ~ harmful | causing or capable of causing harm.; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking" |
| adj. | 2. damaging, negative | designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions.; "negative criticism" |
| ~ destructive | causing destruction or much damage.; "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism" |
| ill | | |
| n. (state) | 1. ailment, complaint, ill | an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining. |
| ~ disorder, upset | a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning.; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time" |
| ~ pip | a minor nonspecific ailment. |
| ~ kinetosis, motion sickness | the state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle. |
| adj. | 2. ill, sick | affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function.; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" |
| ~ unfit | not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition.; "fat and very unfit"; "certified as unfit for army service"; "drunk and unfit for service" |
| ~ unhealthy | not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind.; "unhealthy ulcers" |
| ~ afflicted, stricken | grievously affected especially by disease. |
| ~ aguish | affected by ague. |
| ~ ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, under the weather, unwell, sickly, seedy | somewhat ill or prone to illness.; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" |
| ~ air sick, airsick, carsick, seasick | experiencing motion sickness. |
| ~ autistic | characteristic of or affected with autism.; "autistic behavior"; "autistic children" |
| ~ bedfast, bedrid, bedridden, sick-abed | confined to bed (by illness). |
| ~ liverish, livery, bilious | suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress. |
| ~ bronchitic | suffering from or prone to bronchitis. |
| ~ consumptive | afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis.; "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough" |
| ~ convalescent, recovering | returning to health after illness or debility.; "convalescent children are difficult to keep in bed" |
| ~ delirious, hallucinating | experiencing delirium. |
| ~ diabetic | suffering from diabetes. |
| ~ dizzy, giddy, vertiginous, woozy | having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling.; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff" |
| ~ dyspeptic | suffering from dyspepsia. |
| ~ light-headed, lightheaded, swooning, faint, light | weak and likely to lose consciousness.; "suddenly felt faint from the pain"; "was sick and faint from hunger"; "felt light in the head"; "a swooning fit"; "light-headed with wine"; "light-headed from lack of sleep" |
| ~ feverous, feverish | having or affected by a fever. |
| ~ funny | experiencing odd bodily sensations.; "told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest" |
| ~ gouty | suffering from gout. |
| ~ green | looking pale and unhealthy.; "you're looking green"; "green around the gills" |
| ~ laid low, stricken | put out of action (by illness). |
| ~ laid up | ill and usually confined.; "laid up with a bad cold" |
| ~ milk-sick | affected with or related to milk sickness. |
| ~ nauseated, sickish, nauseous, queasy, sick | feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit. |
| ~ palsied | affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor.; "palsied hands" |
| ~ paralyzed, paralytic | affected with paralysis. |
| ~ paraplegic | suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord. |
| ~ rachitic, rickety | affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets.; "rickety limbs and joints"; "a rachitic patient" |
| ~ scrofulous | afflicted with scrofula. |
| ~ sneezy | inclined to sneeze. |
| ~ spastic | suffering from spastic paralysis.; "a spastic child" |
| ~ tuberculous, tubercular | constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus.; "a tubercular child"; "tuberculous patients"; "tubercular meningitis" |
| ~ unhealed | not healed.; "an unhealed wound" |
| ~ upset | mildly physically distressed.; "an upset stomach" |
| adj. | 3. ill | resulting in suffering or adversity.; "ill effects"; "it's an ill wind that blows no good" |
| ~ harmful | causing or capable of causing harm.; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking" |
| adj. | 4. ill | distressing.; "ill manners"; "of ill repute" |
| ~ 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. | 5. ill | indicating hostility or enmity.; "you certainly did me an ill turn"; "ill feelings"; "ill will" |
| ~ hostile | characterized by enmity or ill will.; "a hostile nation"; "a hostile remark"; "hostile actions" |
| adj. | 6. ill, inauspicious, ominous | presaging ill fortune.; "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government" |
| ~ unpropitious | not propitious. |
| adv. | 7. badly, ill, poorly | (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well.; "he was ill prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an ill-conceived plan" |
| ~ combining form | a bound form used only in compounds.; "`hemato-' is a combining form in words like `hematology'" |
| adv. | 8. badly, ill | unfavorably or with disapproval.; "tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern" |
| adv. | 9. ill | with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly.; "we can ill afford to buy a new car just now" |
| morbid | | |
| adj. | 1. morbid | suggesting an unhealthy mental state.; "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity" |
| ~ unwholesome | detrimental to physical or moral well-being.; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking" |
| adj. | 2. ghoulish, morbid | suggesting the horror of death and decay.; "morbid details" |
| ~ offensive | unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses.; "offensive odors" |
| adj. | 3. diseased, morbid, pathologic, pathological | caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology.; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes" |
| ~ unhealthy | not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind.; "unhealthy ulcers" |
| sick | | |
| n. (group) | 1. sick | people who are sick.; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick" |
| ~ people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively.; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" |
| v. (body) | 2. barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up | eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" |
| ~ egest, excrete, eliminate, pass | eliminate from the body.; "Pass a kidney stone" |
| adj. | 3. nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish | feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit. |
| ~ ill, sick | affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function.; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" |
| adj. | 4. brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged | affected with madness or insanity.; "a man who had gone mad" |
| ~ insane | afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement.; "was declared insane"; "insane laughter" |
| adj. | 5. disgusted, fed up, sick, sick of, tired of | having a strong distaste from surfeit.; "grew more and more disgusted"; "fed up with their complaints"; "sick of it all"; "sick to death of flattery"; "gossip that makes one sick"; "tired of the noise and smoke" |
| ~ displeased | not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure. |
| adj. | 6. pale, pallid, sick, wan | (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble.; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn" |
| ~ weak | wanting in physical strength.; "a weak pillar" |
| adj. | 7. sick | deeply affected by a strong feeling.; "sat completely still, sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing" |
| ~ moved, stirred, touched, affected | being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion.; "too moved to speak"; "very touched by the stranger's kindness" |
| adj. | 8. ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick | shockingly repellent; inspiring horror.; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen" |
| ~ alarming | frightening because of an awareness of danger. |
| 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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