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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | strike and damage |
| Synonyms: | assault, bash, beat, break, bruise, buffet, clobber, contuse, cripple, crush, dash, deface, demolish, destroy, disable, disfigure, drub, hurt, injure, lacerate, lambaste, lame, lash, mangle, mar, maul, mutilate, pelt, pommel, pound, pummel, punish, ruin, shatter, smash, thrash, wallop, wreck |
| Main Entry: | hamstring |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disable |
| Synonyms: | cripple, debilitate, handicap, hinder, hobble, immobilize, impair, lame, maim, mangle, paralyze, weaken |
| Main Entry: | incapacitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put out of action |
| Synonyms: | clip wings, cripple, damage, disable, disarm, disenable, disqualify, hamstring, hinder, hog-tie, hurt, immobilize, lame, lay up, maim, paralyze, prostrate, put out of commission, take out, undermine, weaken |
| Antonyms: | allow, facilitate, mobilize, permit |
| Main Entry: | maim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cripple, put out of action |
| Synonyms: | batter, blemish, break, castrate, crush, damage, deface, disable, disfigure, dismember, disqualify, gimp, hack, hamstring, harm, hog-tie, hurt, impair, incapacitate, injure, lame, mangle, mar, massacre, maul, mayhem, mutilate, spoil, truncate, warp, wound |
| Antonyms: | aid, cure, heal, help, repair |
| Main Entry: | mutilate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | maim, damage |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, amputate, batter, bowdlerize, butcher, cripple, crush, cut to pieces, cut up, deface, disable, disfigure, dismember, distort, expurgate, hack*, hash up, hurt, injure, lacerate, lame, mangle, mar, mess up*, ravage, scratch, spoil, weaken |
| Antonyms: | fix, mend, repair |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | paralyze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | immobilize |
| Synonyms: | anesthetize, appall, arrest, astound, bemuse, benumb, bring to grinding halt, close, daunt, daze, deaden, debilitate, demolish, destroy, disable, disarm, enfeeble, freeze, halt, incapacitate, knock out, lame, make inert, make nerveless, nonplus, numb, palsy, petrify, prostrate, shut down, stop dead, stun, stupefy, transfix, weaken |
| Antonyms: | incite, mobilize, stimulate |
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