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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulteration |
| Synonyms: | contagion, corruption, decay, defilement, dirtying, disease, epidemic, filth, foulness, impurity, infection, pestilence, plague, poisoning, pollution, radioactivation, rottenness, spoliation, taint |
| Antonyms: | cleaning, cure, healing, purification, sterilization |
| Main Entry: | contagion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infection |
| Synonyms: | bane, contamination, corruption, illness, miasma, pestilence, plague, poison, pollution, taint, transmission, venom, virus |
| Main Entry: | damage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury, loss |
| Synonyms: | accident, adulteration, adversity, affliction, bane, blemish, blow, breakage, bruise, casualty, catastrophe, cave-in, contamination, corruption, debasement, depreciation, deprivation, destruction, deterioration, detriment, devastation, disservice, disturbance, evil, hardship, harm, hurt, illness, impairment, infliction, knockout, marring, mischief, mishap, mutilation, outrage, pollution, ravage, reverse, ruin, ruining, spoilage, stroke, suffering, waste, wound, wreckage, wrecking, wrong |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, favor, improvement, profit |
| Main Entry: | depravity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corruption, immorality |
| Synonyms: | abandonment, baseness, contamination, criminality, debasement, debauchery, degeneracy, degradation, depravation, evil, iniquity, lewdness, licentiousness, perversion, profligacy, sensuality, sinfulness, vice, viciousness, vitiation, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | good, honor, justice, morality, nobility, purity, uprightness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | disease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ailment, affliction |
| Synonyms: | ache, affection, attack, blight, breakdown, bug*, cancer, canker, collapse, complaint, condition, contagion, contamination, convulsions, debility, decrepitude, defect, disorder, distemper, endemic, epidemic, feebleness, fever, fit, flu, hemorrhage, ill health, illness, indisposition, infection, infirmity, inflammation, malady, misery, pathosis, plague, seizure, sickliness, sickness, spell, stroke, syndrome, temperature, unhealthiness, unsoundness, upset, virus, visitation |
| Notes: | decease is the event of dying or departure from life; disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal and harmful functioning illness means sickness or poor health, while a disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning |
| Antonyms: | health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | filth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dirt, pollution |
| Synonyms: | carrion, contamination, corruption, crud, defilement, dregs, dung, excrement, feces, feculence, filthiness, foul matter, foulness, garbage, grime, impurity, manure, mire, muck, mud, nastiness, ordure, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, refuse, rottenness, sediment, sewage, silt, sleaze, slime, slop, sludge, slush, smut, trash, uncleanness |
| Antonyms: | cleanliness, purity, sterility |
| Main Entry: | impurity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contaminant |
| Synonyms: | adulteration, contamination, corruption, defilement, dirt, filth, foreign matter, grime, pestilence, poisoning, pollutant, pollution, scum, stain, taint, uncleanness |
| Main Entry: | poison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | substance that causes harm, death |
| Synonyms: | adulteration, bacteria, bane, blight, cancer, contagion, contamination, corruption, germ, infection, malignancy, miasma, toxicant, toxin, toxoid, venin, venom, virus |
| Antonyms: | antidote |
| Main Entry: | toxin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poison |
| Synonyms: | blight, cancer, contagion, contamination, germ, infection, noxious substance, poisonous substance, toxicant, toxoid, venom, virus |
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