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| Main Entry: | disable |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | render inoperative; cripple |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, batter, blunt, damage, debilitate, disarm, disqualify, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, hamstring*, handicap, harm, hock*, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, kibosh*, knock out*, maim, mangle, mar, mutilate, muzzle, paralyze, prostrate, ruin, sabotage, sap, shatter, spoil, total*, undermine, unfit, weaken, wreck, disenable, hogtie*, immobilize, pinion, put out of action, render incapable, shoot down*, take out*, throw monkey wrench in, unbrace, unstrengthen |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, enable, help, improve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | attenuate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | weaken |
| Synonyms: | abate, constrict, contract, cripple, debilitate, deflate, disable, dissipate, enfeeble, extenuate, lessen, mitigate, sap, shrink, thin, undermine, vitiate |
| Antonyms: | expand, increase, intensify, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | batter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | strike and damage |
| Synonyms: | assault, bash, beat, break, bruise, buffet, clobber, 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, contuse |
| Main Entry: | blunt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make dull |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, benumb, cripple, dampen, deaden, debilitate, desensitize, disable, enfeeble, numb, sap, soften, undermine, water down, weaken, hebetate, obtund, take the edge off |
| Antonyms: | needle, point, sharpen |
| Main Entry: | debilitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | incapacitate |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, blunt, cripple, devitalize, disable, enervate, enfeeble, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, harm, hurt, injure, mar, prostrate, relax, sap, spoil, undermine, weaken, wear out, unbrace, unstrengthen |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, cure, energize, help, invigorate, mend, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | defuse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disarm; smooth over |
| Synonyms: | alleviate, cripple, deactivate, diminish, disable, lessen, moderate, mollify, pacify, pad, restrain, soften, soothe, subdue, weaken, demilitarize |
| Main Entry: | disqualify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be unfit for; be ineligible |
| Synonyms: | bar, debar, disable, eighty-six*, except, exclude, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, nix*, paralyze, preclude, prohibit, rule out, suspend, unfit, weaken, bate, disenable, disentitle, disfranchise, not make the cut |
| Antonyms: | allow, fit, permit, qualify, be eligible, capacitate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enervate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tire, wear out |
| Synonyms: | debilitate, devitalize, disable, enfeeble, exhaust, fatigue, incapacitate, paralyze, sap, unnerve, vitiate, weaken, weary, jade |
| Notes: | energize means to cause to be alert or to invigorate while enervate means to weaken mentally or morally enervate means 'drain energy or vigor from' (from Latin enervare 'weaken by extraction of the sinews') and innervate means 'supply with energy' (Latin in- 'in' and nervus 'strength, vigor, energy') innervate means 'to stimulate or give nervous energy,' the opposite of enervate |
| Antonyms: | activate, animate, empower, energize, invigorate, strengthen, liven |
| Main Entry: | enfeeble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make very weak |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, blunt, cripple, debilitate, deplete, devitalize, diminish, disable, exhaust, fatigue, incapacitate, sap, undermine, unhinge, unnerve, weaken, wear out |
| Antonyms: | strengthen |
| Main Entry: | fatigue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tire, wear out |
| Synonyms: | burn out*, bush*, debilitate, deplete, disable, drain, droop, drop, enervate, exhaust, fizzle, flag, knock out*, languish, peter out*, prostrate, sag, sink, succumb, take, weaken, wear down, weary, bedraggle, conk out*, fag, jade, overtire, poop, poop out*, tucker |
| Antonyms: | energize, refresh, envigorate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incapacitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put out of action |
| Synonyms: | cripple, damage, disable, disarm, disqualify, hamstring*, hinder, hurt, lame, lay up*, maim, paralyze, prostrate, undermine, weaken, clip wings, disenable, hog-tie, immobilize, put out of commission, take out |
| Antonyms: | allow, facilitate, mobilize, permit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | injure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hurt, harm |
| Synonyms: | abuse, aggrieve, batter, blemish, blight, break, contort, cripple, cut up, damage, deface, deform, disable, disfigure, distort, distress, do in*, foul, foul up, grieve, impair, maim, maltreat, mangle, mar, mutilate, pain, pique, prejudice, ruin, shake up, spoil, sting, tarnish, torment, torture, total, undermine, vitiate, wax, weaken, wound, wrong, draw blood, hack up |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, cure, fix, heal, help, mend |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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, hack, hamstring*, harm, hurt, impair, incapacitate, injure, lame, mangle, mar, massacre, maul, mayhem, mutilate, spoil, truncate, warp, wound, gimp, hog-tie |
| Antonyms: | aid, cure, heal, help, repair |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mutilate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | maim, damage |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, amputate, batter, butcher, cripple, crush, cut up, deface, disable, disfigure, dismember, distort, expurgate, hack*, hurt, injure, lacerate, lame, mangle, mar, mess up*, ravage, scratch, spoil, weaken, bowdlerize, cut to pieces, hash up |
| Antonyms: | fix, mend, repair |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | paralyze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | immobilize |
| Synonyms: | appall, arrest, astound, bemuse, benumb, close, daunt, daze, deaden, debilitate, demolish, destroy, disable, disarm, enfeeble, freeze, halt, incapacitate, knock out, lame, nonplus, numb, petrify, prostrate, shut down, stun, stupefy, transfix, weaken, anesthetize, bring to grinding halt, make inert, make nerveless, palsy, stop dead |
| Antonyms: | incite, mobilize, stimulate |
| Main Entry: | sabotage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | incapacitate, damage |
| Synonyms: | attack, block, break up, cripple, deep six, destroy, disable, disrupt, do*, do in*, foul up*, frustrate, hamper, hinder, mess up*, obstruct, screw up*, subvert, undermine, vandalize, wreck, bollix, louse up, put out of action, put out of commission, take out*, throw a monkey wrench into, torpedo* |
| Antonyms: | abet, aid, fix, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sap |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | squeeze out; weaken |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, bleed, blunt, cripple, debilitate, deplete, destroy, devitalize, disable, drain, enervate, enfeeble, erode, exhaust, impair, prostrate, rob, ruin, subvert, undermine, vitiate, wear down, wreck |
| Antonyms: | build, help, increase, strengthen, put in |
| Main Entry: | undermine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | weaken |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, blunt, clip one's wings, corrode, cripple, debilitate, dig, dig out*, disable, eat away, enfeeble, erode, excavate, foil, frustrate, hollow out, hurt, impair, knock the bottom out of, mine, poke full of holes, ruin, sabotage, sandbag, sap, soften, subvert, threaten, thwart, torpedo*, tunnel, undercut, wear, whittle away, wreck |
| Antonyms: | strengthen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wreck |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ruin, destroy |
| Synonyms: | bash, batter, beach, break, capsize, crack up*, crash, cripple, dash, decimate, demolish, devastate, disable, do in*, efface, founder, impair, injure, mangle, mar, mess up*, ravage, raze, sabotage, scuttle, shatter, sink, smash, spoil, strand, subvert, total*, trash*, undermine, vandalize, wrack*, dilapidate, pile up*, put out of commission, run aground, shipwreck, smash up, take apart, take out, tear up, torpedo*, wrack up |
| Antonyms: | build, create, repair |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | debase |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | degrade, shame |
| Synonyms: | abase, cheapen, corrupt, cripple, debauch, debilitate, demean, demoralize, deprave, devalue, disable, disgrace, dishonor, enfeeble, humble, humiliate, lower, put away, put down, reduce, sap, sink, take down*, undermine, weaken, bemean, cast down, devaluate, drag down*, dump on, fluff off, shoot down, take down a peg |
| Antonyms: | elevate, honor, laud, praise, upgrade, value |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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