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(v)
(transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
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(transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
(transitive) To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart.
(transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
(adj)
Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle from a weapon, such as a gun or a knife.
(transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
To damage, hurt, or injure something, usually an inanimate object.
(transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
(transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
(transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
(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.
(figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.
(intransitive) To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
(US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.
(transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention).
(transitive) To break or violate a treaty, a law, a right, etc.
(heading, physical) To strike.
(transitive) To influence or alter.
(n)
A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
(ambitransitive) To change the form or structure of.
(transitive) To have a negative impact on (someone's position, chances etc.).
To impede in motion or progress.
An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
(military, slang, dated) Acronym of herrings in tomato sauce.
(transitive) To tear, rip or wound.
To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.
(chiefly electronics, computing) To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
(offensive) A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
A deep cut.
(transitive, psychiatry) To cause a trauma in.
(transitive) To injure without breaking the skin; to bruise.
A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining
(transitive) To rub or wear off; erode.
A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.
(intransitive) To bleed; to lose blood because of an injury.
(zootomy) An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
(intransitive) To commit self-injury.
(transitive) Often followed by out: to squeeze or twist (something moist) tightly so that liquid is forced out.
A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.
(ambitransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)
A twisting force.
(transitive, slang, idiomatic) To subject (a person) to a severe scolding, interrogation, beating, etc.
(idiomatic, chiefly in the negative, chiefly with a conditional) To hurt or damage something even a little.
(intransitive) (chiefly of time) To persist or continue with increasing exhaustion.
(idiomatic) To hassle or abuse someone.
(transitive) To work for; earn by labour.
An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
(idiomatic) To cause injury, distress, or inconvenience to someone, especially as punishment or as a comeuppance.
A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
(informal) Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.
A harsh grating sound.
(intransitive) To feel pain.
The act of biting.
(obsolete) To strike or stamp in.
Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
The sound or action of something being scraped.
(boxing) To hit with a boxing glove.
Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old (inclusive).
A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
(uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity; chutzpah.
A sudden, pinching or sharp pain in a specific part of the body, especially one lasting for a short time.
A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.
(countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
A place torn; a rent; a rift.
(informal) To overwhelm or consume someone.
(obsolete, transitive) To deceive; to entice; to lure.
(knot theory) The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot
(transitive, idiomatic) To drive over, causing injury or death.
A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch said area.
(slang, Canada, US, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
(uncountable) The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.
To violate, especially to rape.
(MLE) To sort oneself out; To fix up.
A distressing or dangerous situation.
(biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
(transitive) To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows.
(intransitive) To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
(transitive) To enter by force, usually in order to conquer.
Biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt, often used in religious rites or for aesthetic reasons.
(uncountable) Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.
A strong feeling of anxiety.
(transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.
A wrench, twist, or sprain of the body.
(informal, formerly offensive) A British person.
(transitive) To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.
(UK, Australia, humorous) To have been seriously hurt, or greatly damaged.
A wriggling movement.
A slight adjustment or modification.
(intransitive) To twist into or as if into a strained shape or expression.