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Maul

A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.

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Blemish 76% connected

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.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cleave 76% connected

To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.

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Deface 76% connected

To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or porti…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Disfigure 76% connected

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

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Hammer 76% connected

An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.

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Rive 76% connected

To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.

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Split 76% connected

of Split

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Injure 72% connected

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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Mar 72% connected

A small lake. See Mere.

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Mutilate 72% connected

Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.

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Wound 72% connected

of Wind

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Mangle 92% connected

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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sledge 92% connected

A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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