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(n)
Physical injury; hurt; damage.
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(v)
(intransitive, stative) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
(transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
(transitive, obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
(figuratively) To severely hurt (someone's feelings, soul, etc., or something intangible) through acts, words spoken, etc.
(adj)
That has suffered damage.
Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle from a weapon, such as a gun or a knife.
The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
Harm, hurt, damage.
(intransitive) To feel pain.
To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
(intransitive) To hurt or sting.
(transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
Reduced; made less strong.
(transitive) To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart.
An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
(heraldry) Synonym of debruised.
Suffering from an injury
(intransitive) To grow sores; to be beset with skin lesions.
To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
The act of inflicting a wound.
Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting; lacerating.
To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
(transitive) To load (a gun) with shot.
Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered.
(uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
(transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
Defeated.
(usually offensive) Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.
(transitive) To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
(transitive) To make (something) shabby (adjective adjective, sense 1); to shabbify.
(transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
(transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
(transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
(colloquial, childish, intransitive) To make a mistake.
Any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.
Impeded or encumbered, as if chained or fettered.
(only in set phrases) illness, affliction.
(transitive) To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone).
(transitive) To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
Rendered less effective.
(British, Australia, colloquial) To vomit.
The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
Very unpleasant; disagreeable.
(obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.
(transitive) To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate.
(transitive) To get in the way of; to hinder.
(transitive) To take credit or reputation from; to derogate; to defame or decry.
(transitive) To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront.
(adv)
In a bad manner.
Intending to harm; malevolent.
(intransitive, slang, dated) To behave aggressively.
Very bad.
(transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
(transitive, obsolete) To make hard, harden.
(intransitive) To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
(transitive) To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.
Constituting a sin; morally or religiously wrong; wicked; evil.
(figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.
(US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.
Having undergone an impact.
A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
(intransitive) To form cracks.
In a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort.
Controversial; contentious; debated.
(transitive, rare) Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.
(British, dialect, transitive) To shell (a walnut).
(chiefly predicative) Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect.
Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
(intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
Appearing to be true or real only until examined more closely.
(transitive) To hit; to strike.
(heading, physical) To strike.
Primarily physical senses.
Amusing; humorous; comical.
(transitive) To strike with one's fist.
(transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
To treat unjustly; to injure or harm; to do wrong by.
Influenced or changed by something.
A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care.
(transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
Emotionally moved (by), made to feel emotion (by).
(transitive) To influence or alter.
A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
(chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
That has been cut into slices.
(transitive, dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
A person who is easily made to bleed, or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly a hemophiliac.
Which has not suffered harm; which has not been injured or damaged.
(ambitransitive, colloquial) Used as a placeholder verb for any verb out of a set of related verbs.