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Verb
Present participle for to tarnish with something undesirable
Present participle for to sully the good name of
Present participle for to make hurtful and untrue comments about
(
usually of a disease or condition
)
Present participle for to affect adversely
Present participle for to spoil or be the one bad feature of
Present participle for to treat someone badly, cruelly or unkindly
Present participle for to affect without completely changing
Present participle for to become sour or tainted
Present participle for to become, or cause to become, bitter or disenchanted
Present participle for to give or add color to
Present participle for to imbue with a (usually slight) amount of something
Present participle for to make, or cause to be, blur or dim
Present participle for to mark out as having a particular (typically negative) quality
Noun
The presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects
A decline from previously high standards
The improper use of something
Adjective
Causing, or resulting in, death
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to tarnish with something undesirable
contaminating
corrupting
polluting
vitiating
befouling
adulterating
damaging
defiling
dirtying
marring
blighting
fouling
infecting
muddying
soiling
spoiling
poisoning
ruining
tarring
destroying
doctoring
spiking
watering down
staining
tarnishing
sullying
debasing
besmirching
blemishing
smearing
smirching
blackening
smudging
spotting
blotting
injuring
begriming
griming
impairing
marking
discolouring
UK
discoloring
US
daubing
degrading
perverting
depraving
debauching
miring
mucking
bemiring
distaining
gauming
darkening
making impure
touching
diluting
blotching
profaning
bastardizing
US
spattering
bastardising
UK
weakening
demoralizing
US
deteriorating
cheapening
harming
demoralising
UK
lacing
cutting
devaluing
alloying
denigrating
splashing
prostituting
warping
subverting
abasing
desecrating
demeaning
distorting
bespattering
cankering
lessening
depreciating
mixing
splattering
messing up
making dirty
thinning
disfiguring
scarring
undermining
defacing
dishonouring
UK
streaking
dotting
splotching
dishonoring
US
bedaubing
brutalizing
US
besmearing
brutalising
UK
mucking up
disgracing
splodging
falsifying
making filthy
doping
cooking
clouding
thinning out
speckling
radioactivating
flawing
flecking
prejudicing
hurting
envenoming
violating
bloodying
maculating
wrecking
extending
vilifying
colouring
UK
bestializing
worsening
misusing
trashing
specking
souring
manipulating
besoiling
sophisticating
encrusting
smutching
coating
draggling
making unclean
attenuating
bringing discredit to
tampering with
commingling
blending
shaving
amalgamating
planting
dissolving
infiltrating
mingling
intermixing
denaturing
irrigating
transfusing
abusing
coloring
US
dragging through the mud
loading
doctoring up
making dusty
biasing
US
biassing
UK
shaming
animalizing
upsetting
embittering
tingeing
tinging
altering
jaundicing
mutilating
deforming
anointing
blacking
mongrelizing
blobbing
striping
turning
maiming
crippling
endamaging
slushing
covering
dragging down
denting
putrefying
getting dirty
getting filthy
moving
diseasing
blurring
afflicting
overwhelming
enthusing
mangling
crabbing
infesting
littering
toxifying
plastering
slopping
making mucky
detracting from
interfering with
misapplying
misemploying
breaking
compromising
deaconing
imprinting
spreading among
spreading to
fiddling with
tinkering with
roiling
riling
murking
crossing up
mishandling
exploiting
beclouding
slipping a Mickey Finn into
mixing something with something
notching
impressing
bruising
pitting
killing
festering
slaughtering
exterminating
attacking
assassinating
making murky
nicking
scratching
scoring
gashing
chipping
scraping
reducing in value
making cloudy
making weak
making weaker
making thinner
making thin
watering
mottling
making ill
taking advantage of
ill-using
checking
blazing
inking
chalking
stroking
reducing in quality
clouding up
making darker
making black
making blacker
peppering
darning
scorning
vicing
voodooing
flaming
mocking
despoiling
swearing
blaspheming
hoodooing
cussing
reviling
cursing
adding water to
sprinkling
mixing with
treating with disrespect
talking dirty
committing sin
committing sacrilege
putting double whammy on
doing wrong
shooting
dappling
bestrewing
marbling
strewing
stippling
spraying
sowing
scattering
freckling
scuzzing up
making foul
sploshing
pimpling
studding
more ❯
“A cataclysmic explosion that would ruin and
taint
all other foods within the refrigerator.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to sully the good name of
tarnishing
blemishing
smearing
sullying
besmirching
soiling
stigmatising
UK
stigmatizing
US
blackening
blotting
branding
discrediting
staining
blighting
debasing
disgracing
dishonoring
US
dishonouring
UK
shaming
hurting
injuring
smirching
darkening
harming
touching
depraving
poisoning
tarring
casting a slur
dragging through the mud
giving a bad name
degrading
humiliating
lowering
defaming
humbling
cheapening
abasing
taking down
bringing into disrepute
putting in a bad light
bringing shame to
dragging through the mire
demeaning
giving a bad name to
chastening
sinking
fouling
bringing shame on
dragging down
showing in a bad light
embarrassing
besmearing
reflecting badly on
defiling
bringing dishonour to
bringing discredit to
blackening the name of
slandering
disparaging
denigrating
belittling
slurring
compromising
ruining
devaluing
disfavoring
disfavouring
bringing shame upon
putting down
showing up
reflecting negatively
taking down a peg
casting in a bad light
harming the reputation of
blackening the reputation of
damaging the reputation of
muddying the reputation of
corrupting
marring
debauching
lowering the status of
reducing the status of
making lose face
vilifying
blaming
diminishing
calumniating
maligning
detracting from
shooting
bringing into disfavour
insulting
pooh-poohing
destroying
exposing
reproaching
censuring
puncturing
disconsidering
disesteeming
casting aspersions on
frowning upon
reflecting on
tearing down
blowing up
running down
knocking bottom out of
poking full of holes
bringing to naught
taking rug out from under
doing a hatchet job on
blackening someone's name
scandalizing
US
spotting
mortifying
mocking
libeling
US
snubbing
scandalising
UK
disrespecting
libelling
UK
deriding
disregarding
owning
desecrating
ridiculing
derogating
reducing
attainting
losing face
tarring and feathering
giving a black eye
cutting down to size
causing to lose face
taking down a peg or two
making someone eat crow
putting someone in their place
more ❯
“She carries with her an air of confidence, even arrogance, that seems to
taint
every successful artist once the cash starts rolling in.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make hurtful and untrue comments about
slandering
defaming
denigrating
maligning
vilifying
disparaging
libelling
UK
libeling
US
traducing
calumniating
smearing
slurring
aspersing
decrying
belittling
sullying
blackening
besmirching
derogating
tarnishing
blotting
slighting
smirching
scandalising
UK
scandalizing
US
dishonouring
UK
dishonoring
US
injuring
reviling
insulting
attacking
vilipending
defiling
damaging
slamming
panning
roasting
assailing
muckraking
detracting
misrepresenting
depreciating
scorching
blistering
backbiting
belying
sneering
blaspheming
hitting
plastering
strumpeting
bad-mouthing
running down
speaking ill of
dragging through the mud
dragging through the mire
casting aspersions on
speaking evil of
flinging mud at
slinging mud at
giving a bad name
throwing mud at
spreading scandal about
doing a hatchet job on
tearing down
telling lies about
casting a slur on
slinging mud
running a smear campaign against
blackening someone's name
running smear campaign
blackening name
staining
discrediting
disgracing
stigmatizing
US
befouling
soiling
spoiling
besmearing
giving a black eye
spotting
stigmatising
UK
rubbishing
degrading
knocking
censuring
breathing on
bringing discredit to
reproaching
ripping
blotching
debasing
shaming
slagging off
bringing into disrepute
lowering
doing a number on
ripping up and down
disrespecting
deriding
reducing
reflecting badly on
bringing shame upon
bringing shame on
tarring and feathering
dragging someone's name through the mud
badmouthing
caricaturing
burlesquing
embarrassing
blemishing
undermining
poisoning
writing false reports about
spreading tales about
marking wrong
dragging name through mud
prejudicing
perverting
ruining
blackguarding
dragging through mud
villainizing
accusing falsely
casting aspersion
spreading lies about
dissing
criticizing
US
abusing
slating
putting down
vituperating
criticising
UK
having a go at
discounting
deprecating
pouring scorn on
pulling apart
dumping on
impugning
minimizing
US
lambasting
trashing
dismissing
condemning
trash-talking
minimising
UK
blackening the name of
bashing
diminishing
taking to pieces
contemning
hitting out at
berating
speaking badly of
inveighing against
crying down
kissing off
talking down
denouncing
sullying the reputation of
skewering
hammering
pummelling
UK
pummeling
bagging
jumping on
laying into
tearing into
throwing brickbats at
pulling to pieces
deflating
fulminating against
railing against
playing down
pillorying
detracting from
blackening the reputation of
conducting a smear campaign against
ridiculing
snubbing
offending
mocking
cursing
zinging
blackening the character of
skinning alive
doing down
ripping up
rapping
blowing off
cutting to the quick
humiliating
scoffing at
dispraising
backstabbing
criticizing unfairly
speaking of with disfavour
giving black eye
crushing
underestimating
undervaluing
scorning
having a pop at
underrating
questioning
castigating
trivializing
US
mistrusting
repudiating
excoriating
treating lightly
disdaining
downplaying
pooh-poohing
making light of
rejecting
commenting negatively
mortifying
downgrading
scathing
taunting
rebuking
savaging
blasting
sneering at
belaboring
US
scolding
potshotting
nagging
selling short
minifying
misprizing
lessening
compromising
devaluating
cheapening
humbling
picking holes in
faulting
spurning
discountenancing
looking down on
holding cheap
trivialising
UK
finding fault with
clamoring against
taking down a peg
upbraiding
oppressing
persecuting
reproving
slanging
flaming
miscalling
riding
hosing
belabouring
UK
branding
miffing
swearing at
cutting down
calling names
shouting at
vituperating against
calling someone names
cussing out
spattering
chopping
pushing
capping
insinuating
cutting up
mistreating
voodooing
demonizing
US
jinxing
cussing
digging
hitting where one lives
demonising
UK
calling down
ragging on
dressing down
putting a whammy on
more ❯
Verb
▲
(
usually of a disease or condition
)
Present participle for to affect adversely
attacking
infecting
affecting
damaging
injuring
corrupting
devastating
vitiating
afflicting
crippling
destroying
contaminating
marring
ruining
spoiling
annihilating
demolishing
impairing
ravaging
troubling
compromising
impacting
overcoming
touching
harming
striking
breaking
influencing
perturbing
sabotaging
upsetting
defiling
occurring
polluting
prevailing
crushing
hurting
overwhelming
poisoning
blighting
debasing
impinging
weakening
impacting on
impinging upon
prevailing over
wearing away
shaking up
spreading to
striking at
striking down
doing damage to
playing havoc with
taking hold of
wreaking havoc on
exerting influence on
having an effect on
having an impact on
Verb
▲
Present participle for to spoil or be the one bad feature of
marring
damaging
harming
spoiling
hurting
blighting
impairing
tarnishing
vitiating
staining
ruining
sullying
wrecking
blemishing
bloodying
breaking
compromising
crabbing
crippling
defacing
disfiguring
endamaging
flawing
injuring
upsetting
blotting
polluting
bending
bruising
crossing up
detracting
dinging
fouling up
maiming
mangling
queering
scratching
tweaking
warping
lousing up
messing up
roughing up
shaking up
putting a damper on
destroying
sabotaging
crushing
ravaging
undermining
shattering
trashing
annihilating
undoing
disrupting
devastating
weakening
demolishing
gutting
smashing
wounding
dismantling
corrupting
corroding
screwing up
mucking up
dashing
desecrating
cracking
scotching
incapacitating
defiling
scuppering
vandalizing
US
afflicting
knocking
denting
razing
scorching
battering
torpedoing
blasting
nixing
banjaxing
totaling
totalling
playing havoc with
smirching
dishing
euchring
cruelling
sapping
shocking
vandalising
UK
smashing up
making a mess of
wreaking havoc on
putting the kibosh on
blowing a hole in
causing detriment to
bringing to naught
throwing a spanner in the works of
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
frustrating
ending
preventing
quelling
quashing
mutilating
scarring
stymieing
nullifying
doing in
putting an end to
putting a stop to
decaying
bringing to an end
disappointing
making a hash of
putting paid to
disfeaturing
destabilizing
US
glitching up
putting the lid on
lacerating
abusing
splitting
scathing
infecting
dirtying
maltreating
tearing
disintegrating
gnawing
discoloring
US
discolouring
UK
rusting
rotting
wronging
burning
subverting
jeopardizing
US
stabbing
bleaching
contaminating
fading
banging up
causing injury
tampering with
wearing away
diminishing
hindering
debilitating
impoverishing
deteriorating
doing damage to
playing merry hell with
disabling
enervating
impeding
depressing
devitalizing
driving a nail into the coffin of
inconveniencing
debasing
withering
enfeebling
detracting from
jeopardising
UK
interfering with
taking out
destabilising
UK
doing harm to
putting out of action
throwing a monkey wrench into
putting out of commission
darkening
clouding
dilapidating
poisoning
touching
mullering
casting a pall over
doing for
casting a shadow over
taking the edge off
taking the shine off
nicking
prejudicing
besmirching
taking the pleasure out of
taking the enjoyment out of
ballsing up
wrenching
handling roughly
dumping on
doing mischief to
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to treat someone badly, cruelly or unkindly
ill-using
abusing
maltreating
mistreating
misusing
mishandling
manhandling
bullying
brutalising
UK
brutalizing
US
hurting
harming
oppressing
tormenting
harassing
misemploying
prostituting
spoiling
battering
neglecting
dissipating
exhausting
overburdening
overtaxing
overworking
squandering
wasting
ill-treating
kicking around
messing over
knocking about
treating badly
taking apart
damaging
injuring
wronging
harrying
mauling
molesting
victimizing
US
handling roughly
victimising
UK
dumping on
knocking around
beating
roughing up
beating up
hitting
doing over
striking
persecuting
treating roughly
roughhousing
shaking up
messing up
assaulting
bunging up
outraging
pawing
torturing
attacking
bashing
totaling
totalling
cutting up
slapping around
interfering with
pushing
pulling
shoving
hustling
jostling
marring
banging up
ruining
ripping
chopping
trashing
wounding
waxing
backbiting
rousting
bundling
mangling
handling
doing wrong
pushing around
giving black eye
beating up on
duffing up
bashing up
working over
beating the living daylights out of
thrashing
perverting
profaning
misapplying
exploiting
corrupting
desecrating
blowing
mismanaging
misappropriating
running through
going through
raping
violating
assailing
ravishing
groping
fondling
sexually abusing
sexually assaulting
feeling up
touching up
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to affect without completely changing
colouring
UK
coloring
US
affecting
influencing
altering
distorting
impacting
conditioning
manipulating
prejudicing
transforming
twisting
warping
angling
biasing
US
biassing
UK
changing
garbling
slanting
swaying
doctoring
modifying
stretching
skewing
bending
fazing
steering
throwing
upsetting
exerting an influence on
having an effect on
Verb
▲
Present participle for to become sour or tainted
turning
souring
curdling
spoiling
acidifying
decaying
putrefying
crumbling
decomposing
disintegrating
fermenting
mouldering
UK
moldering
US
rotting
becoming rancid
becoming sour
going bad
going off
going sour
making rancid
breaking down
festering
perishing
corrupting
deteriorating
fouling
molding
US
moulding
UK
mortifying
sphacelating
degenerating
breaking up
corroding
necrosing
degrading
falling apart
necrotizing
going moldy
gangrening
stinking
becoming rotten
going to seed
becoming gangrenous
going mouldy
suppurating
gathering
maturating
ulcerating
becoming inflamed
becoming infected
collapsing
shattering
fragmenting
splintering
fracturing
failing
foundering
dissolving
rupturing
exploding
declining
falling
folding
dismembering
breaking
busting
subsiding
breaking apart
disrupting
riving
separating
crumpling
disuniting
blowing up
shivering
composting
washing away
deliquescing
coming apart
disorganizing
giving way
splitting
going downhill
going to rack and ruin
severing
dividing
dismantling
disconnecting
taking apart
detaching
falling apart at the seams
turning to dust
descending
falling to bits
flying apart
going belly-up
blowing apart
dispersing
caving in
washing out
withering
sinking
disimproving
worsening
going to pieces
fading away
dilapidating
falling to pieces
disbanding
smashing
cracking
bursting
demolishing
rending
tearing
coming apart at the seams
giving
smashing to smithereens
crushing
snapping
buckling
falling in
crashing
falling down
sundering
tumbling
destroying
imploding
trashing
blowing out
annihilating
totalling
totaling
pulling to pieces
coming unstuck
cleaving
cracking up
slumping
sagging
wasting away
parting
coming to pieces
damaging
yielding
tumbling down
mildewing
toppling
fragmentizing
wasting
pulverizing
US
tearing apart
succumbing
breaking into pieces
busting up
pulverising
UK
losing control
freaking out
making mincemeat of
breaking open
spalling
coming to bits
atrophying
caving
flying into pieces
torpedoing
eradicating
blowing
blasting
popping
bursting apart
rotting away
wrecking
dissevering
going
devastating
scrunching
crunching
sickening
falling into decay
splitting up
wracking
creaming
pranging
mangling
losing it
finishing off
making hash of
going out
breaking to smithereens
going down
wracking up
giving in
flipping out
giving out
toppling over
crushing to smithereens
having a breakdown
coming down
coming unwrapped
malfunctioning
tarnishing
rusting
battering
rifting
coming unglued
becoming rusty
freaking
pulling apart
physically breaking
staving
ravaging
coming undone
cracking open
cracking apart
shrivelling
UK
shriveling
US
detonating
erupting
settling
dashing to pieces
smashing up
sinking inwards
crashing in
addling
pashing
dashing
gathering dust
dropping
wilting
going rancid
becoming addled
staving in
polluting
defiling
blighting
discoloring
US
sapping
shriveling up
discolouring
UK
crumping
retrograding
regressing
devolving
ebbing
powdering
breaching
distorting
beating
crumbing
breaking into tiny pieces
becoming tainted
becoming useless
going rotten
warping
becoming contaminated
wearing away
growing moldy
smashing into smithereens
breaking into fragments
squashing
squishing
ruining
decimating
extinguishing
vaporizing
US
desolating
nuking
razing
bursting out
going bang
perforating
puncturing
unlinking
uncoupling
reducing
breaking to pieces
coming to dust
impairing
smattering
disabling
vaporising
UK
rubbing out
doing in
pulling down
tearing down
exhausting
splitting asunder
breaking into
dissociating
decoupling
disassociating
unyoking
divorcing
clearing
disjoining
going mad
ripping
ribboning
shredding
tattering
ramifying
resolving
disjointing
having breakdown
going out of mind
blowing a fuse
going off rocker
becoming demented
becoming psychotic
going crazy
going bonkers
deranging
going nuts
coming apart at seams
going off deep end
schizzing out
ripping apart
slashing
wresting
disturbing
ripping to pieces
lacerating
ripping asunder
tearing in two
slitting
cutting
tearing to pieces
piercing
tearing asunder
pulling
ripping in two
wigging out
coming to nothing
not succeeding
fizzling out
falling through
coming to grief
crying
dissolving into tears
melting down
bursting into tears
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Verb
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Present participle for to become, or cause to become, bitter or disenchanted
envenoming
embittering
antagonising
UK
antagonizing
US
angering
coloring
US
colouring
UK
empoisoning
jaundicing
poisoning
souring
aggravating
making bitter
acerbating
alienating
harming
impairing
infecting
injuring
making rancorous
rankling
making sick
contaminating
disaffecting
disillusioning
making resentful
dissatisfying
estranging
exasperating
frustrating
disenchanting
disgruntling
aliening
prejudicing
turning off
displeasing
discontenting
disquieting
vexing
marring
influencing
twisting
biasing
US
warping
biassing
UK
exacerbating
discouraging
worsening
prepossessing
distorting
acidulating
venoming
irritating
annoying
bothering
bittering
upsetting
Verb
▲
Present participle for to give or add color to
tinting
tinging
tingeing
dyeing
dying
colouring
UK
staining
tincturing
bepainting
coloring
US
painting
pigmenting
affecting
influencing
rinsing
highlighting
lowlighting
shading
streaking
touching
washing
Verb
▲
Present participle for to imbue with a (usually slight) amount of something
tincturing
tinging
tingeing
imbuing
staining
tinting
diffusing
imbruing
infusing
suffusing
engraining
ingraining
instilling
saturating
steeping
bathing
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make, or cause to be, blur or dim
blurring
obscuring
bedimming
befogging
dimming
beclouding
blearing
clouding
fogging
muddling
obfuscating
smudging
blackening
darkening
dislimning
fading
hazing
masking
misting
muddying
shrouding
unfocusing
unfocussing
besmearing
blinding
blotting
concealing
garbling
shading
shadowing
smearing
spotting
staining
blemishing
dazing
dazzling
discolouring
UK
discoloring
US
distorting
glaring
hiding
overcasting
overclouding
overshadowing
tarnishing
confusing
making indistinct
clouding over
making vague
becoming dim
becoming indistinct
fuzzing up
mixing up
making hazy
making unclear
becoming fuzzy
becoming hazy
becoming less sharp
becoming vague
making less distinct
muddying the waters
repressing
complicating
confounding
misrepresenting
convoluting
fuddling
mystifying
miring
equivocating
coloring
US
colouring
UK
fuzzing
befuddling
falsifying
muddying the waters of
clouding the issue
throwing up smoke screen
throwing a veil over
eclipsing
veiling
perplexing
adumbrating
murking
discombobulating
puzzling
disorienting
growing dim
flummoxing
bamboozling
dulling
addling
cloaking
deepening
louring
screening
graying
US
greying
UK
growing dark
obnubilating
filming
blotting out
clouding up
casting a shadow over
jumbling
stupefying
glooming
tangling
dusking
enveloping
intricating
mantling
blacking out
benighting
shielding
making dim
growing black
misting over
becoming shaded
becoming cloudy
making dark
growing blacker
growing darker
making darker
distracting from
blocking out
becoming blurred
bedarkening
extinguishing
rattling
making obscure
closing in
becoming gloomy
becoming overcast
making black
making blacker
showering
toning down
casting a shadow
umbraging
inumbrating
overhanging
sheltering
enveloping in shadow
blocking off the light to
casting a shadow on
streaking
baffling
raveling
US
ravelling
UK
embroiling
entangling
twisting
bemusing
turning black
becoming black
misinforming
misleading
making complex
making a mess of
making more difficult
rendering uncertain
making difficult
bewildering
obstructing
vexing
leading astray
muddying up
covering
beating
foxing
mazing
buffaloing
graveling
gravelling
blocking
enshrouding
blanketing
burying
camouflaging
disguising
suppressing
posing
obliterating
encasing
ensconcing
curtaining
getting
belying
wrapping
pettifogging
occulting
hindering
caching
stonewalling
bemisting
misting up
papering over
covering up
messing up
opaquing
blanking out
putting out of sight
keeping out of sight
fogging over
steaming up
becoming misty
becoming covered in condensation
becoming clouded
steaming
fogging up
forming mist
glazing over
filming over
making cloudy
becoming obscure
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to mark out as having a particular (typically negative) quality
branding
stigmatising
UK
stigmatizing
US
characterising
UK
characterizing
US
denouncing
labelling
UK
labeling
US
discrediting
categorising
UK
categorizing
US
classing
classifying
disgracing
exposing
marking
vilifying
besmirching
censuring
defaming
describing
identifying
pillorying
calling
naming
marking out
accusing of being
labelling negatively
Noun
▲
The presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects
pollution
contamination
adulteration
dirtying
foulness
dirtiness
fouling
impurity
adulterating
befouling
contaminating
corruption
infection
soiling
taint
defilement
filthiness
infecting
uncleanness
vitiation
abuse
besmearing
decomposition
deterioration
effluence
fumes
impairment
litter
misuse
polluting
profanation
rottenness
smog
soilage
spoliation
trash
carbon footprint
greenhouse effect
greenhouse gasses
toxic waste
sullying
decay
degradation
spoiling
debasement
putrescence
rotting
rot
putrefaction
breakdown
festering
poisoning
tarnishing
spoilage
erosion
noxiousness
pestilence
unwholesomeness
dirt
uncleanliness
pollutant
filth
grime
scum
griminess
stain
smuttiness
squalidness
nastiness
foreign matter
squalor
perversion
contaminant
grubbiness
septicity
dustiness
dinge
blackness
dinginess
sordidness
adulterant
disease
poison
plague
toxicity
contagion
feculence
solecism
falsification
barbarism
distortion
doctoring
radioactivation
dross
debauchment
vulgarism
bits
foul matter
ruination
befoulment
devaluation
depreciation
reduction
muck
vileness
muckiness
murkiness
mire
foreign body
illness
virus
infirmity
muddiness
messiness
bug
blight
sepsis
venom
miasma
bane
transmission
inflammation
suppuration
septicaemia
germs
ulceration
bacteria
microbes
insanitation
debauchery
depravity
more ❯
Noun
▲
A decline from previously high standards
lapse
decline
drop
fall
descent
deterioration
backsliding
degeneration
downturn
falling
regression
retrogression
slipping
worsening
decay
dereliction
ebb
sinking
slide
waning
corrosion
corruption
debasement
falling away
impairment
relapse
decadence
declension
devolution
recession
retrogradation
reversion
throwback
reverting
backslide
atavism
recidivism
return
recidivation
fall from grace
reoffending
tendency
repetition
habit
reoffense
retroaction
reverse
retreat
loss
getting worse
slip
trip
relapsing
lapsing
original sin
fall from favor
more ❯
Noun
▲
The improper use of something
mistreatment
perversion
abuse
mishandling
misuse
misapplication
misemployment
depravation
misusage
corruption
desecration
exploitation
misutilization
pollution
defiling
depravement
prostitution
manipulation
ill use
ill-use
ill usage
ill-usage
mismanagement
maltreatment
ill-treatment
wrongdoing
misdeed
injustice
misconduct
wrong
offense
US
delinquency
debasement
sin
crime
fault
offence
UK
misappropriation
wrong use
persecution
unkindness
oppression
maladministration
misgovernment
neglect
ill treatment
misrule
use
illegal use
waste
embezzlement
squandering
dissipation
solecism
fraud
distortion
catachresis
profanation
malapropism
barbarism
abusage
fraudulent use
cruel treatment
Adjective
▲
Causing, or resulting in, death
pestilent
corrupting
deadly
destructive
detrimental
evil
fatal
harmful
killer
lethal
mortal
vicious
baleful
deathly
deleterious
fell
injurious
murderous
pernicious
ruinous
terminal
vital
baneful
contaminating
dangerous
diseased
infectious
noxious
troublesome
virulent
malignant
killing
pestilential
poisonous
death-dealing
incurable
mortiferous
life-threatening
devastating
nocuous
venomous
hurtful
toxic
disastrous
homicidal
calamitous
mortuary
malefic
destroying
adverse
damaging
bad
prejudicial
final
cruel
bloody
bloodthirsty
unhealthy
maleficent
ill
pestiferous
violent
dead
untreatable
mephitic
internecine
causing death
wicked
ruthless
mischievous
necrotic
savage
brutal
grave
ferocious
tragic
critical
monstrous
excessive
grim
serious
last
ending
grievous
cannibalistic
suicidal
slaying
carcinogenic
ill-fated
death dealing
ill-starred
fierce
sanguinary
barbarous
prejudicious
counterproductive
inimical
inhuman
cut-throat
bloody-minded
murdering
sanguineous
sanguine
barbaric
withering
cancerous
unfavorable
US
unfavourable
UK
unwholesome
nocent
malign
miasmatic
insidious
offensive
miasmic
nefarious
disadvantageous
negative
spiteful
noisome
sapping
unpleasant
criminal
ruining
undesirable
unfortunate
environmentally unfriendly
merciless
pitiless
heartless
sadistic
harsh
remorseless
slaughterous
brutish
inhumane
callous
fiendish
truculent
hellish
unmerciful
bestial
rough
brute
malevolent
butcherly
atrocious
unrelenting
malicious
diabolical
nasty
hard
severe
vile
wanton
unfeeling
wild
unkind
aggressive
heinous
cutthroat
threatening
beastly
mean
stern
wolfish
horrible
hostile
bitter
vindictive
infernal
cold-blooded
tough
hard-hearted
harrowing
abominable
ghastly
menacing
unsparing
exhausting
unsympathetic
crude
flinty
coarse
implacable
relentless
villainous
warlike
annihilative
dark
unforgiving
terrible
sinister
gory
insensitive
devilish
unpitying
maniacal
arduous
strenuous
thuggish
oppressive
uncaring
torturous
heavy
hateful
draconian
uncharitable
catastrophic
cold-hearted
stony-hearted
furious
onerous
dire
cataclysmic
rabid
crushing
rugged
fiery
tigerish
crippling
black-hearted
black
base
low
low-down
unsafe
demoniac
feral
crazed
impetuous
delirious
vulgar
depraved
intimidating
unruly
gruff
mad
uncompassionate
untamed
rancorous
unrestrained
dour
austere
frantic
frightening
hardhanded
forbidding
uncontrollable
wrackful
uncompromising
intolerant
tyrannical
hard-boiled
bellicose
butcherous
ravening
excruciating
annihilating
uncouth
decimating
involving bloodshed
hard-fought
trying
tortuous
difficult
treacherous
burdensome
stiff
unconcerned
bearish
tactless
indifferent
lupine
voracious
ravenous
murtherous
irreconcilable
searing
ignorant
vengeful
unrefined
uncultured
unlettered
evil-minded
arch
unappeasable
ill-natured
cataclysmal
shattering
inflexible
hardline
antagonistic
inexorable
intimidatory
dodgy
ill-boding
foreboding
ominous
tormenting
evil-intentioned
annihilatory
devastative
damning
fateful
intransigent
desperate
uncivilised
UK
minatory
viperous
minacious
abhorrent
rowdy
serpentine
uncivilized
US
abandoned
creophagous
carnivorous
unfriendly
catty
despiteful
revengeful
costly
tyrannous
despotic
abusive
exacting
dictatorial
sworn
murder
bad-natured
dirty
poison
lousy
waspish
bullying
immoderate
impoverishing
extravagant
depleting
draining
wasteful
suppressive
authoritarian
berserk
rigid
ramrod
illiberal
at each other's throats
frenzied
intemperate
terrorizing
US
pugnacious
man-eating
heavy-handed
hard-nosed
hard-shell
explosive
maddened
hotheaded
forceful
frenetic
assertive
fearsome
ungentle
steely
thick-skinned
obdurate
compassionless
desensitized
US
indurate
soulless
case-hardened
pachydermatous
insensate
stonyhearted
stoney
stony
affectless
slash-and-burn
take-no-prisoners
ironhearted
hazardous
impassioned
fuming
crazy
terrorising
UK
headstrong
radge
agitated
hysterical
feverish
potent
forcible
raging
louring
frightful
convulsive
hardhearted
marble-hearted
incessive
raving
stark
lowering
enraged
undomesticated
fearful
risky
hot-tempered
hot-headed
angry
infuriated
rapacious
hardened
rigorous
sour
with a heart of stone
avaricious
unregenerate
greedy
unrepenting
desensitised
UK
indefatigable
unyielding
unbending
uncontrite
hard-bitten
dicey
wounding
perilous
parlous
precarious
animalistic
primitive
biffo
aggers
knock-down-and-drag-out
blood-and-guts
knock-down
hammer and tongs
out of control
drag-out
painful
full-blooded
bang-bang
incendiary
subversive
undermining
lethiferous
corrosive
insalubrious
eradicative
extirpative
harassing
wreckful
sinful
corroding
hideous
bloodless
unemotional
inclement
dastardly
immoral
wrathful
roughshod
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