Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
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To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
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The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
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To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.
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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…
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To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a s…
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To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
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To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic…
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Same as Deflour.
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To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.
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To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh.
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A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.
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See 1st Frith.
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The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.
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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
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To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value.
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To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…
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To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling man…
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A small lake. See Mere.
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Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
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The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film…
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To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bo…
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To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.
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To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the…
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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.
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Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss.
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To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exagger…
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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
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The act of altering or making different.
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That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.
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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…
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A rib; a side; a region or coast.
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Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong,…
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The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion,…
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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…
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To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
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The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.
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The act of deflouring; as, the defloration of a virgin.
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The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed.
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That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals…
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The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement.
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Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity.
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The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body.
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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
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The state of being impaired; injury.
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A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds…
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The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.
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To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a s…
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The act of valuing, or of estimating value or worth; the act of setting a price; estimation; appraisement; as, a valuation of lands for the purpose o…
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of Wound
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imp. of Wring. Wrung.
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imp. of Wring. Wrung.
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Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
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The state of being impaired; injury.
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The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or…
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Alt. of Scath
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imp. of Wring. Wrung.
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