Synonyms Dictionary
2. trifle, toy, flirt; potter, putter, smatter, tinker, fiddle, Inf. fool with.
3. dawdle, loiter, linger, dillydally, shilly-shally, take one's time, take one's own sweet time, Inf. lallygag; delay, tarry, kill time, waste time, while away the time or hours. damage, n. 1. injury, harm, loss, suffering, misfortune; hurt, wound, bruise, blow, accident; disaster, destruction, devastation, havoc, ruin; wrong, evil, mischief, grievance, outrage.
2. fault, blemish, scar, scratch; erosion, corrosion, dryrot, blight; dilapidation, disintegration, disrepair, wear and tear; defacement, defilement, vandalism, de-foulment.
3. damages Law. cost, expenses, exactment, fine, penalty, mulct, amercement; compensation, satisfaction, indemnity, reparation.
-v. 4. injure, harm, wrong, wound, deal a blow to, abuse; impair, incapacitate, maim, cripple; tamper with, break, wreck, SI. do a job on; split, crack, rend, tear; mar, deface, vandalize; disfigure, mutilate; gnaw, erode, eat, rust, corrode, wear away; undermine, ravage, wreak havoc on, destroy.
5. spoil, despoil, defile, blemish, stain, taint, pollute, contaminate; pervert, corrupt, blight, debase, dame, n. peeress, aristocrat, blueblood, baroness, noblewoman, Fr. grande dame; dowager, matron, matriarch. damn, v. 1. condemn, denounce, denunciate, objurgate, berate; castigate, fustigate, tongue-lash, reprimand, reprove, upbraid; censure, reprobate, criticize, remonstrate, animadvert on; vilify, gibbet, vituperate, run down, put down.
2. attack, flay, light into, Inf. lace into, Inf. pan, Inf. slam, shoot down, SI. kill, SI. blast, SI. let [s.o.] have it right between the eyes; cavil, carp, find fault, Inf. nit-pick, pick apart, pick to pieces, Inf. pick holes in, Inf. knock, SI. cut up or to pieces.
3. proscribe, forbid, interdict, prohibit; ostracize, excommunicate, exile.
4. curse, U.S. Inf. cuss, anathematize, comminate, execrate, maledict, fulminate, blast; blaspheme, swear, use God's name in vain.
5. convict, declare guilty, prove guilty, find guilty; sentence, pass sentence on, condemn, adjudge, doom, sign the death warrant. -interj. 6. confound it, hang it, All Euph. darn, dang, gosh-darn, doggone, drat, blame.
-n. 7. trifle, SI. cent, SI. red cent, SI. two cents; Inf. hoot, tinker's damn; drop in the ocean, Inf. hill of beans.
8. give a damn Informal, care, be concerned, mind, SI. give a hoot, take interest in, have taste for. damnable, adj. 1. abominable, execrable, horrible, horrid, hideous, atrocious, accursed; base, vile, odious, obnoxious, wicked, sinful, iniquitous, blackhearted; dark, evil, depraved, corrupt, villainous, sinister; diabolic, devilish, fiendish, satanic, demonic, demoniac, demoniacal, infernal, hellish.
2. nefarious, flagitious, heinous; revolting, repulsive, outrageous, repugnant, foul, rotten, offensive, nauseous, nauseating; pernicious, pestilential, noxious, deadly, fell; malign, menacing, baleful, invidious, injurious, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, rancorous, venomous; detestable, hateful, abhorrent, loathsome, infamous, despicable, damnation, n. 1. condemnation, denunciation, commination, objurgation; censure, criticism, castigation, reproval.
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