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Defacement

The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.

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Damage 76% connected

Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

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Harm 76% connected

Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

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Hurt 76% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Scathe 76% connected

Alt. of Scath

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Disfigure 74% connected

To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.

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Disfigure 74% connected

To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.

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Disfiguration 92% connected

The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement.

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Disfigurement 92% connected

Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity.

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Mutilation 92% connected

The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.

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Alcarraza noun · 78% connection

A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.

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Anger noun · 78% connection

A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or b…

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Atonement noun · 78% connection

Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfa…

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Blackmail verb · 78% connection

To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to black…

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Blackmailing noun · 78% connection

The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.

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Blot noun · 78% connection

An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.

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Case noun · 78% connection

A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.

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Chin noun · 78% connection

The exterior or under surface embraced between the branches of the lower jaw bone, in birds.

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Convexity noun · 78% connection

The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness.

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Crust noun · 78% connection

The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.

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Desegmentation noun · 78% connection

The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body.

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Distress noun · 78% connection

The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an inju…

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Erasement noun · 78% connection

The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration.

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Erasion noun · 78% connection

The act of erasing; a rubbing out; obliteration.

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Erasure noun · 78% connection

The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.

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External adjective · 78% connection

Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external…

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Guard noun · 78% connection

a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.; "he put an ice pack on the injury as a precaution"; "an…

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Hurtless adjective · 78% connection

Doing no injury; harmless; also, unhurt; without injury or harm.

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