transitive. To damage (a material thing) so as to render useless; to destroy or impair the quality of (an object); to produce a flaw or blemish…

To destroy, ruin, bring to destruction. Also, in milder sense, to injure, damage, spoil.

transitive. To do harm to; to injure, impair, damage. Obsolete.

transitive. To damage or destroy (a physical object). In early use also: to squander (property).

transitive. To pollute or impair physically; to damage; to injure.

transitive. To annoy, trouble, harass; to harm or injure. Occasionally in passive: to be annoyed or vexed.

transitive. To make physical contact with (a person or thing) so as to injure; to handle or interact with physically so as to cause harm, however…

transitive. To wound, hurt, injure.

To hurt, damage, do physical damage or injury to, deface. Obsolete.

To spoil by injuring or damaging in some way; to render imperfect or useless; to destroy the goodness or value of (a thing). Now only dialect.

transitive. To weaken or damage (something). Obsolete.

To do bodily hurt or harm to (a person); to injure (a thing) materially. Obsolete.

transitive. To do or cause damage to; to hurt, harm, injure; now commonly to injure (a thing) so as to lessen or destroy its value.

To strip of worth, value, or use; to render useless, mar, destroy; to spoil, v.1 Obsolete.

transitive. To damage or destroy; to kill.

transitive. To be hard upon; to harm, damage, or injure in some way. Obsolete.

transitive. To maim, mangle, or mutilate. Also intransitive. Obsolete.

transitive. To overturn (an established or existing set of opinions, practice, intention, etc.); to subvert or ruin; to bring to nothing, dash.

To injure, hurt. Obsolete.

To underlie and spoil. Obsolete. rare.

To put out of order, derange, injure. Obsolete.

transitive. To impair, injure, dilapidate.

transitive. To harm, damage. Cf. endamage, v.

To damage physically, inflict material injury upon (a person or thing); to spoil (a thing) so as to make it less fit for its purpose. Obsolete.

transitive. To injure materially; to damage. Now rare.

transitive. To trample on; to injure, destroy; to defeat, overcome. Cf. foil, v.1

transitive. To mutilate, spoil (a thing). Now Scottish.

transitive. To affect with a dyscrasy; to distemper, disorder.

To spoil (anything) in quality. a thing material. Obsolete.

In extended use. transitive. To damage or destroy (a person) in mind or spirit; to disfigure, damage, disguise, or deform (a person or thing); to…

? To damage, harm, injure. (Cf danger, n. 6.)

To render useless, to injure or spoil utterly.

To damage, impair, or injure, esp. to such an extent as to render unfit or useless; to destroy (entirely or partially) the good, valuable, or…

transitive. To cause great and usually irreparable damage to (something). Cf. ruin, v. 3a Now chiefly archaic and regional.

transitive. To cause great and usually irreparable damage to (something); to have a disastrous effect on.

To hurt, harm, or injure severely; to damage, wreck, or ruin materially.

To hurt, harm, damage; = injure, v. 3.

To harm, hurt, injure, poison. physically.

transitive. To mutilate, mangle, batter. Also figurative. Now Scottish.

transitive. In extended use: to spoil, corrupt (a thing). Obsolete.

To cause undeserved physical harm or injury to (a person, etc.); to affect harmfully or injuriously; to hurt or damage. Now Scottish.

transitive. To affect strongly; to agitate (esp. forcefully); spec. (in later use) to break or strip off (also intransitive). Obsolete.

To affect injuriously; to cause detriment to; to hurt, injure, impair. Obsolete.

transitive. To mutilate.

to do violence to (also †unto): to inflict harm, injury, or damage on; (also) to restrict, constrain, or alter unnaturally; to distort the meaning of.

transitive. To make a flaw or crack in; to crack; to damage by a crack or fissure; to cause a defect in, mar.

transitive. To bruise or loosen the surface of (stone, a mineral), so that it splinters or exfoliates. Also, to scratch or tear (a surface) in sawing.

To spoil, impair; to overpower, destroy, put an end to. transitive. With a thing as object. Also (occasionally) intransitive. Now Caribbean: to…

transitive. To damage (a person or thing) seriously; to shatter, mangle.

transitive. Perhaps: to maul, mangle. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To cause injury, loss, or inconvenience to; to injure, damage, hurt; to inflict injury… To injure physically or bodily. Obsolete.

transitive. To spoil, disfigure, mangle, or mar; to mismanage.

transitive. To spoil, mangle, or garble (something), esp. through incompetence or carelessness.

transitive. slang. To damage or ruin; to spoil. Now rare.

transitive. = muck, v.1 5.

transitive. To put out of order; to spoil. Also: to spoil the reputation or chances of (a person); to put (a person) out of favour (with another).

To bruise, beat out of shape, or indent by blows or rough usage; in Printing, to deface the surface of type.

transitive. To break, destroy, ruin; to kill. Cf. puckeroo, adj., puckerooed, adj.

transitive. To damage, esp. beyond repair; to destroy, ruin; to cause serious harm to.

transitive. To make pretty or attractive; to smarten, dress, or make to look pretty or attractive (frequently reflexive). Usually with up.

Chiefly North American. transitive. colloquial. To turn (something) into garbage; to spoil, ruin, destroy. Cf. trash, v.3 3.

transitive. More generally: to damage or harm (a person or thing); to treat harshly or savagely.

transitive. slang. To damage greatly, do injury to, ruin, wear out.

transitive. To punish, damage, injure; to attack physically or verbally; (also) to reprimand severely. Also intransitive.

transitive. Caribbean. To spoil, damage, or destroy by violence. Also: to cause trouble for (a person), esp. by careless talk. With up.

To lose or bungle (an opportunity, etc.); to mishandle (a situation); to ruin, spoil. Frequently with it. slang (originally U.S.).

transitive. figurative and in extended use. To destroy, get rid of; to ruin or devastate.

transitive. To spoil, ruin, mangle; (Computing) to make damaging and usually irrevocable changes to (a file); to destroy or corrupt (data, etc.).