Evil-doing, injuring, harming; speaking ill.

The action of causing annoyance or irritation. Also formerly: †the action of causing harm, damage, or injury; disturbance (obsolete).

The action of impair, v.; making worse, deterioration, impairment.

The action of injuriously affecting or impairing; weakening, deterioration, damage.

The action of harm, v.; harm, injury, hurt. In quot. 1400 = sorrow, grief.

Corrupted, corroded, or adulterated condition, esp. of a metal; (also) an adulterating substance, an impurity. Also figurative. Cf. infect, v. 7. Obs…

The action of endamage, v.

The action of hurt, v.; injury, damage, hurt. (Now usually gerundial.)

The action of maim, v.

The action of damage, v.

In various figurative senses corresponding to senses of the verb: esp. (a) the action or an act of mentioning, alluding to, or discussing something…

figurative. The action or an act of harming, damaging, or destroying something, either intentionally or through incompetence. Cf. butcher, v. 1b(a).

The action of damnifying; infliction of injury or loss. (Now only in legal use.)

The action of poison, v.; an instance or the effect of this; the fact of being poisoned.

The action of destroying, injuring, marring, etc.; an instance or occasion of this.

The action of sap, v.1 in various senses; an instance of this.