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(n)
Physical injury; hurt; damage.
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(countable, uncountable) Damage, harm, hurt, injury.
An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
A disability or handicap.
Something that is immoral or not good.
The cost required to gain possession of something.
loss of military equipment
a legal injury is any damage resulting from a violation of a legal right
(N)
In legal terminology, Terms can have different meanings, depending on the specific context.
(v)
(transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
Damage to the body of a living thing.
Harm, hurt, damage.
(adj)
Causing physical harm or injury; harmful, hurtful.
The characteristic of being harmful.
The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
Causing or likely to cause harm or damage; injurious.
(ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
Widespread devastation and destruction.
(uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
Something or someone that has been ruined.
(intransitive) To feel pain.
Something wrecked, especially the remains or debris of something which has been severely damaged or destroyed.
The result of disfiguring; the state of being disfigured.
The process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
A worse situation; an aggravation or deterioration
The process of spoiling.
A blemish.
(transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder.
(transitive) To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
(obsolete) The act of impairing or deteriorating.
Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
(pathology) A wound or injury.
(countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
The act of disturbing, being disturbed.
A state or situation of great confusion, disorder, trouble or destruction; chaos.
(obsolete) disturbance
a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation
An act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something.
(transitive) To make weaker or less strong.
(transitive) To make something unstable.
The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society
(countable) A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.
(ecology, medicine) The process or result of being gradually decomposed; rot, decomposition.
Willful damage to or destruction of any property, such as graffiti or defacement.
A distressing or dangerous situation.
(transitive) To lower in value or social position.
Getting worse.
A surname from German.
The act of destroying.
(uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
Service that results in harm; an (intentionally or unintentionally) unhelpful, harmful action.
A minor annoyance or inconvenience.
An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.
(slang, euphemistic) The buttocks.
(transitive) To take credit or reputation from; to derogate; to defame or decry.
(transitive) To get in the way of; to hinder.
(uncountable) The state of having such a condition; the state of being disabled.
A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
Any large and disastrous event of great significance.
To make a threat against someone; to use threats.
The act by which something is broken.
(transitive) To make smaller.
(countable) A wrong or hardship suffered, which is the grounds of a complaint.
The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)
An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
The act of breaking.
(uncountable) A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
The act or process by which something is undermined.
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
An advertisement created by subvertising.
The act of declining or refusing something.
Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.
The act of one who tampers.
Able to be regretted, especially deserving of regret.
(intransitive) To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
(figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.
A weakness or undesirable characteristic; con; drawback.
The act or process of contaminating.
(transitive) To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.
A fault or malfunction.
(intransitive, rarely transitive, figuratively) To interfere with.
A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
Exposure to likely harm; peril.
(transitive) To put into peril; to place in danger.
(US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.
(transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention).
A person or thing considered to be defective.
The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
The act or an instance of violating or the condition of being violated.