poison
canker
turd in the punchbowl
bad
bletch
desensitizer
blight
evil
enemy
injure
stuff up
spoil
lamesauce
hurt
-clast
peril
jar
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devilment
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noxa
toast
skank
crock
biocide
bust up
wreck
bedash
do in
fug
appendant
abatable nuisance
shatter
zapper
dry up
traverse
bruise
mining
negative
wreak havoc
antidote
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corrupting
sting
clunker
shit-can
destroyer
harmful
banjax
at the expense of
endanger
make shit of
fly in the ointment
counteractant
pest
upset
choke out
boon or bane
despoilation
a boon or a bane
damager
contaminator
exitious
recompense
spoilation
deface
mung
ravage
scathe
shittery
bash about
maleficent
weed
bogus
contaminatively
damnification
damnous
contaminate
fuck up
ripper
blood sport
a boon and a bane
repressor
sully
singe one's wings
ruin
nuke
nuisance
wrong
disturbance
taint
boon and bane
bad
negative
contaminating
damaging
corrupting
harmful
exitious
maleficent
bogus
damnous
contaminatively
poison
canker
turd in the punchbowl
bad
bletch
desensitizer
evil
enemy
lamesauce
peril
devilment
injuriousness
harmfulness
noxa
toast
skank
biocide
appendant
abatable nuisance
zapper
traverse
mining
antidote
obstruction
obtundent
sting
clunker
destroyer
fly in the ointment
counteractant
pest
despoilation
a boon or a bane
damager
contaminator
recompense
spoilation
shittery
weed
damnification
ripper
blood sport
repressor
ruin
nuke
nuisance
wrong
disturbance
boon and bane
blight
injure
stuff up
spoil
hurt
jar
hurt a fly
crock
bust up
wreck
bedash
do in
fug
shatter
dry up
bruise
wreak havoc
shit-can
banjax
endanger
make shit of
upset
choke out
deface
mung
ravage
scathe
bash about
contaminate
fuck up
sully
singe one's wings
taint
noun
- Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.
- An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae.
- A region of dead plant tissue caused by such a disease.
- A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.
- An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths. Usually resulting from neglected thrush.
- A plant disease marked by gradual decay.
- A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.
- A worm or grub that destroys plant buds or leaves; cankerworm.
verb
noun
- Something that is bad; a harm or evil.
- Error; mistake.
- An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.
intj
verb
adj
- Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
- Not covered by funds on account.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- Not appropriate, of manners etc.
- Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
- Bold and daring.
- Malodorous; foul.
- Stop being bad, or you will get a spanking!
- Unfavorable; negative; not good.
- Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
- Unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
- Of poor physical appearance.
- False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
- Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
- Evil; wicked.
- Severe, urgent.
- Overly promiscuous, licentious.
- Very attractive; hot, sexy.
- Faulty; not functional.
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
adv
noun
- Something harmful or threatening to another
- A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.
- Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.
- Of, by, relating to, or belonging to an enemy.
- A non-player character that tries to harm the player.
verb
verb
- To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
- To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
- To reveal the ending or major events of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
- To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
- Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
- To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.
noun
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
noun
- Something cruel or evil; also, something which causes distress or suffering.
- Devilish action or conduct; wickedness; (more generally) troublemaking behaviour; mischief; (countable) an instance of this.
- A devilish, mischievous, or reckless nature; mischievousness.
- Something cleverly constructed.
- A dish which is devilled (“made piquant or spicy”); a devil; also, the elements of the dish which make it spicy, or the piquancy or spiciness of the dish.
noun
- Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.
- A proposed salutation (e.g. to say "cheers") while drinking alcohol.
- Extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
- A transient, informational unclickable pop-up overlay, less interactive than a snackbar.
- A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem.
- Toasted bread.
verb
- To perform extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
- To lightly cook by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.
- To grill, lightly cook by browning specifically under a grill or in a toaster
- To warm thoroughly.
- To engage in a salutation and/or accompanying raising of glasses while drinking alcohol in honor of someone or something.
noun
- Anything that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.
- The act of cheating a person.
- A dance performed to ska, dub, or reggae music.
- A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
- A style of rhythmic guitar strumming in ska, reggae, and punk.
adj
verb
verb
- To break something or injure someone.
- To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
- To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
- To give off crock or smut.
- To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
noun
- Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
- A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
- An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
- A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
- A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
- A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
- A low stool.
- The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
- Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
verb
- To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
- 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 be involved in a wreck; to be damaged or destroyed.
- 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
- Anything attached to something else as incidental or subordinate to it.
- An inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.
adj
- Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc., which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house.
- Attached as an appendage.
- Annexed; concomitant.
noun
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- A traverse board.
adj
verb
- To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- To deny formally.
- To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
adv
verb
- To harm or injure.
- To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it.
- To become bruised.
- To fight with the fists; to box.
- To impair (gin) by shaking rather than stirring.
- To damage the skin of (fruit or vegetables), in an analogous way.
- Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
noun
adj
- Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
- Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
- Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
- Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
- Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
- Denying a proposition.
- Not positive nor neutral.
- HIV negative.
- COVID-19 negative.
- Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
- Of a number: less than zero
- Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
intj
noun
- Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
- A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
- The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- A right of veto.
- An unfavorable point or characteristic.
- A word that indicates negation.
- A negative quantity.
- An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
verb
noun
- The harmful or painful part of something.
- 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.
- 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
noun
- That which destroys something.
- A larger warship with guided missile armament, usually intended for air defence or anti-ship roles. Often, but not always, larger than a frigate and smaller than a cruiser.
- A small, fast warship with light gun armament, smaller than a cruiser, but bigger than a frigate.
verb
noun
- any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.
- a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
- any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- a persistently annoying person
verb
- To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
- To be upset or knocked over.
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- To tip or overturn (something).
- To defeat unexpectedly.
- To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
adj
noun
- An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
- The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
- An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- An overturn.
- Disturbance or disruption.
- An upset stomach.
verb
- To destroy (something) by depriving it of a vital resource.
- To cause (a person) to lose consciousness by applying a chokehold.
- To say (something) with difficulty, while or as if choking.
- To extinguish (fire) (by depriving it of oxygen or fuel).
- To prevent (light) from passing through.
- To prevent (something) from growing by overwhelming it or robbing it of nutrients.
noun
- Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
- Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
- Tobacco.
- Underbrush; low shrubs.
- A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
- A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
- Cannabis.
- Lymphangitis in a horse.
- A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
verb
adj
- Undesirable or harmful.
- Of a totally fictitious issue printed for collectors, often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country (not to be confused with forgery, which is an illegitimate copy of a genuine stamp).
- Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
- Based on false or misleading information or unjustified assumptions.
- Incorrect, useless, or broken.
noun
noun
- Something that rips something else.
- A legislative bill or act that transfers powers of appointment from the usual holders to a chief executive or a board of officials.
- A murderer who kills and often mutilates victims with a blade or similar sharp weapon.
- Someone who rips something.
- Software that extracts content from files or storage media.
- A tool or plant used to reduce soil compaction.
- A hot dog deep-fried in oil until the casing bursts.
- A hook-like tool used to tear away ore, rock, etc.
- A person employed to tear away ore, rock, etc. to make a passage for material to be carried to the surface.
- Something that is an excellent example of its kind.
- A foghorn.
adj
noun
- Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
- The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
- The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- The act of ruining something.
- Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
verb
- To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- To destroy or make something no longer usable.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
noun
- Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale.
- A nuclear power station.
- A nuclear weapon.
- A vessel such as a ship or submarine running on nuclear power.
- A person (such as a sailor in a navy or a scientist) who works with nuclear weapons or nuclear power.
- A cautionary flag placed on a release to label it as "bad" for some reason or another (e.g., being a dupe of a previous release or containing malware).
- A microwave oven.
verb
- To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).
- To cook in a microwave oven.
- To flag a release as bad for some reason or another (for instance, due to being a duplicate of an earlier release or containing malware).
- To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
- To completely delete all uploads of a user, usually due to copyright violations or vandalism.
- To overanalyze or despair unduly over something.
- To destroy or erase completely.
- To expose to some form of radiation.
noun
- Something that is immoral or not good.
- The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
- An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
- The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
adj
- Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
- Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
- Incorrect or untrue.
- Not working; out of order.
- Designed to be worn or placed inward
- Immoral, not good, bad.
adv
verb
verb
- To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
- To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
- To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
- To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
- To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
- To spoil (food) by contamination.
- To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
noun
- A tinge, trace or touch.
- A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
- A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
- A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
- A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
- The perineum.
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