| Main Entry: | contamination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulteration |
Synonyms: |
contagion, corruption, decay, defilement, dirtying, disease, epidemic, filth, foulness, impurity, infection, pestilence, plague, poisoning, pollution, radioactivation, rottenness, spoliation, taint |
Antonyms: |
cleaning, cure, healing, purification, sterilization |
| Main Entry: | depredation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devastation, destruction |
Synonyms: |
burglary, crime, desecration, desolation, despoiling, laying waste, marauding, pillage, plunder, ransacking, rapine, ravaging, robbery, sacking, spoliation, stealing, theft, wasting |
Antonyms: |
boon, construction, goodness, miracle, wonder |
| Main Entry: | devastation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | destruction |
Synonyms: |
confusion, defoliation, demolition, depredation, desolation, havoc, loss, pillage, plunder, ravages, ruin, ruination, spoliation, waste |
Antonyms: |
building, construction, creation |
| Main Entry: | pollution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dirtiness, contamination |
Synonyms: |
abuse, adulteration, besmearing, besmirching, blight, corruption, decomposition, defilement, desecration, deterioration, dirtying, fouling, foulness, greenhouse effect, impairment, impurity, infection, misuse, polluting, profanation, rottenness, soiling, spoliation, taint, tainting, uncleanness, vitiation |
Antonyms: |
cleanliness, purification |
| Main Entry: | rape |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defilement; a forced sexual assault |
Synonyms: |
abduction, abuse, criminal attack, depredation, despoilment, despoliation, forcible violation, maltreatment, molestation, pillage, plunder, plundering, rapine, spoliation, statutory offense, violation |
| Main Entry: | violation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rape, defilement |
Synonyms: |
assault, blasphemy, debasement, defacement, defacing, degradation, desecration, destruction, devastation, dishonor, invasion, mistreatment, outrage, pollution, profanation, rapine, ravishment, ruin, sacrilege, spoliation |