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traumatizingly
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brutal
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roughshod
splash
vicious
hurt a fly
endolour
stuff up
forburn
dere
euthanasia
wound
mercy killing
sadistic
spite
shit-can
pain and suffering
infortune
cut
self-abuse
ravage
fix someone's wagon
pick away at
maul
nobble
smart
wringer
traumatogenic
traumagenic
lose one's head
punishment
bewound
ill-use
anguish
prick
harm
rackingly
waste
mung
wreak
batwing
scar
painfully
infliction
wreck
winding
oversorrow
burn one's fingers
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verb
- To cause harm or pain to.
- To hurt, to be in pain (physically or emotionally).
- To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both.
- To puncture with the stinger.
noun
- A sharp, localised pain primarily on the epidermis
- A police operation in which the police pretend to be criminals in order to catch a criminal.
- The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
- A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.
- A brief sequence of music used in films, TV, and video games as a form of scenic punctuation or to identify the broadcasting station.
- The harmful or painful part of something.
- A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
- A short percussive phrase played by a drummer to accent the punchline in a comedy show.
- A bump left on the skin after having been stung.
- A goad; incitement.
- A support for a wind tunnel model which extends parallel to the air flow.
- The concluding point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
- A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secretes an acrid fluid, as in nettles.
verb
- To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
- To attack with the teeth.
- To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- To take or keep a firm hold.
- To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- To sting.
- To have significant effect, often negative.
- To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- To plagiarize, to imitate.
- To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
noun
- A small meal or snack.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
- Something unpleasant.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- aggression
- A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- The act of biting.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- An act of plagiarism.
verb
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- To strike in the testicles.
- To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
noun
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- A distaff.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- A woman's breasts.
- A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially if proceeds of crime
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- A bunk.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- Sleep.
- A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
- A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
- A fast amble.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
verb
- To cause great humiliation or harm to (someone or something); to cause great damage to (something, especially from behind).
- To engage in sodomy with (someone); to engage in anal (or, rarely, oral) sex as the penetrator (especially without consent).
- To commit sodomy; to engage in anal sex.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with (an animal), to engage in bestiality.
verb
- To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
- To produce intense pain.
- To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- To punish severely.
- To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
- To exert an overwhelming effect on.
- To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- To force a company out of business.
- To deadmelt.
- To render inoperative.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- To use up or to waste.
- To cause to assume the value zero.
- To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
noun
verb
- To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
- To feel pain; to hurt.
- To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
noun
- An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
- The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
- An annoying person or thing.
- Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
verb
verb
- To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unsconscious; to kill.
- To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- To lump; to throw together messily.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- To slouch or droop.
- To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
noun
- A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
- A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
- The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
- A boggy place.
- A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
- The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.
verb
- To be painful.
- To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
- To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
- To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.
noun
- A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
- A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
- A husk.
- An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
adj
verb
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To be held back or impeded.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To grip or entangle.
- To handle an exception.
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
noun
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- The game of catching a ball.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
verb
- To stab (a person), causing them to bleed.
- To create an impact or impression; to print, post, or publicize prominently.
- To shoot down (an aircraft) over water.
- To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
- To spend (money).
- To roughly fill with color.
- To hit or expel liquid at.
- To launch a ship.
- To disperse a fluid suddenly; to splatter.
noun
- A small amount (of color).
- The shooting down of an aircraft over water.
- An impact or impression.
- A body press; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below.
- A small amount of liquid.
- A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.
- A large, prominent headline or article.
- A splash screen.
- The bleeding caused by a knife wound.
- A knife.
- The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
verb
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- To exhibit (a quality).
- To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- To wound with a knife.
- To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
- To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- To stop, disengage, or cease.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- To make or negotiate.
- To castrate or geld.
- To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- To change direction suddenly.
- To perform (a dancing movement etc.).
- To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
intj
adj
- Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- Reduced.
- Having been cut.
- Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- Carved into a shape; not raw.
- Emotionally hurt.
noun
- A particular version or edit of a film.
- A share or portion of profits.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- A skein of yarn.
- A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
- A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
- The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- The result of cutting.
- In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
- The act of cutting.
- An artificial navigation channel as distinguished from a navigable river.
- Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- A slab, especially of meat.
- A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- A haircut.
- A decrease.
verb
- To hurt or sting.
- To cause a smart or sting in.
- To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil.
adj
- Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology).
- Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable.
- Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
- Sharp; keen; poignant.
- Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
- Sudden and intense.
- Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
- Causing sharp pain; stinging.
noun
verb
- To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
- To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
- To aim at a point or mark.
- To incite, stimulate, goad.
- To shoot without killing.
- To make acidic or pungent.
- To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
- To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
- To pierce or puncture slightly.
- To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
- To form by piercing or puncturing.
- To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
- Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
noun
- An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
- A small pointed object.
- The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
- The footprint of a hare.
- The penis.
- Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
- A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
- A feeling of remorse.
- A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
verb
- To devastate; to destroy.
- To kill; to murder.
- To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
- To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
adj
- Barren; desert.
- Superfluous; needless.
- Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
- Useless and contemptible.
- Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
- Unfortunate; disappointing.
noun
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
- Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- A disused mine or part of one.
- Excrement or urine.
- Gradual loss or decay.
- Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- A vast expanse of water.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
verb
noun
- An exercise or posture on the stomach wherein a dumbbell row or lateral raise is performed.
- An area of flabby fat under a person's arms.
- The wing of a bat, or its shape.
- A long sleeve with a deep armhole, tapering toward the wrist.
- Several South or Southeast Asian species of tailless dark swallowtail butterflies in the genus Atrophaneura.
- One of a pair of swinging doors which typically do not lock nor cover the full vertical range of the doorway (leaving a large gap at the top and bottom), common especially in saloons.
verb
noun
- A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.
- A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
- A cliff or rock outcrop.
- A bare rocky place on the side of a hill or mountain.
- A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience.
- Any permanent mark resulting from damage.
- A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae).
verb
- To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
- To be involved in a wreck; to be damaged or destroyed.
- To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
- To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.
- To ruin or dilapidate.
noun
- A large number of birds that have been brought to the ground, injured or dead, by extremely adverse weather.
- Something or someone that has been ruined.
- The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
- A shipwreck: an event in which a ship is heavily damaged or destroyed.
- Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
- An event in which something is damaged through collision.
noun
- The manner in which something is wound.
- One complete turn of something wound.
- Something wound around something else.
- Curving or bending movement, twists and turns.
- A length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer.
- The act or process of winding (turning a boat etc. around).
- Lapping.
adj
verb
- To harm or injure by such action.
- To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement.
- To act in disagreement or opposition, to clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel.
- To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck.
- To (cause something to) give forth a rudely tremulous or quivering sound; to (cause something to) sound discordantly or harshly.
- To shock or surprise.
- Of the appearance, form, style, etc., of people and things: to look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.
- To preserve (food) in a jar.
noun
- A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.
- The effect of something contradictory or discordant; a clash.
- A jar and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful.
- A quivering or vibrating movement or sensation resulting from something being shaken or struck.
- A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
- An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial.
- A sense of alarm or dismay.
- A clashing or discordant set of sounds, particularly with a quivering or vibrating quality.
- A pint glass
verb
noun
- An animal or human, or the flesh thereof, that has been badly injured as a result of an accident or conflict.
- The patty used in such a sandwich.
- A hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, sometimes also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both.
- Ground beef, especially that intended to be made into hamburgers.
verb
- To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.
- To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.
- To make desirable or necessary.
adv
adj
- Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
- Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.
- Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.
- Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
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