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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | influence another's beliefs without basis, information |
| Synonyms: | angle*, bend*, bias, blemish*, color*, damage, dispose, distort, harm, hinder, hurt, impair, incline, indoctrinate, injure, jaundice, mar, poison*, predispose, prejudge, prepossess, skew*, slant*, spoil, sway*, twist*, undermine, vitiate, warp |
| Notes: | a person's bias is based on facts, but prejudice occurs without a person knowing or examining the facts |
| Antonyms: | approve, be fair, be just, regard, respect, tolerate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | offend, hurt |
| Synonyms: | annoy, begrudge, beset, crab, cramp style, discomfit, gall, get even, grudge, hang up, harass, harm, injure, louse up, needle, nettle, persecute, pique, provoke, put out, upset the apple cart, vex |
| Antonyms: | forgive, help, love, please |
| Main Entry: | spoil |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ruin, hurt |
| Synonyms: | blemish, damage, debase, deface, defile, demolish, depredate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, disfigure, disgrace, harm, impair, injure, make useless, mar, mess up*, muck up, pillage, plunder, prejudice, ravage, sack, smash, spoliate, squash, take apart, tarnish, trash*, undo, upset, vitiate, waste, wreck |
| Antonyms: | help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | taint |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dirty, contaminate; ruin |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, besmirch, blacken, blemish, blight, blot, blur, brand, break down, cast a slur, cloud, cook, corrupt, crud up, crumble, cut, damage, debase, decay, decompose, defile, deprave, discolor, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disintegrate, doctor, foul, give a bad name, harm, hurt, infect, muddy, poison, pollute, putrefy, rot, shame, smear, soil, spike, spoil, stain, stigmatize, sully, tar, tarnish, trash*, turn, water, water down |
| Antonyms: | clean, right |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tarnish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dirty, corrupt |
| Synonyms: | befoul, begrime, blacken, blemish, blot, contaminate, damage, darken, defame, defile, dim, discolor, disgrace, dull, embarrass, grime, harm, hurt, impair, injure, lose luster, lose shine, mar, muddy, pale, pollute, rust, slander, smear, smudge, soil, spoil, spot, stain, sully, taint, tar, vitiate |
| Antonyms: | clean, fix, polish, uncorrupt |
| Main Entry: | vitiate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hurt, corrupt |
| Synonyms: | blemish, blight, brutalize, contaminate, damage, debase, debauch, defile, deprave, deteriorate, devalue, harm, impair, injure, mar, pervert, pollute, prejudice, spoil, sully, taint, tarnish, violate, warp, water down, weaken |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, help, protect, save |
| Main Entry: | wound |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury |
| Synonyms: | anguish, bruise, cut, damage, distress, gash, grief, harm, heartbreak, hurt, insult, laceration, lesion, pain, pang, shock, slash, torment, torture, trauma |
| Main Entry: | wound |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause bodily damage |
| Synonyms: | bruise, carve, clip, contuse, cut, damage, ding, gash, harm, hit, hurt, injure, irritate, lacerate, nick, open up, ouch, pierce, rough up, scrape, scratch, slash, slice, stick, total* |
| Antonyms: | aid, cure, heal, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wrong |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offense, sin |
| Synonyms: | abuse, bad deed, bias, blunder, crime, cruelty, damage, delinquency, discourtesy, error, evil, faux pas, favor, foul play, grievance, harm, hurt, immorality, imposition, indecency, inequity, inhumanity, iniquity, injury, injustice, insult, libel, malevolence, miscarriage, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdoing, mistake, oppression, persecution, prejudice, sinfulness, slander, slight, spite, tort, transgression, trespass, turpitude, unfairness, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | goodness, kindness, right, virtue |
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