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bastardize collapse: declare a child to be illegitimate; change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms

devalue collapse: lower the value or quality of; "The tear devalues the painting"; remove the value from; deprive of its value

vulgarize collapse: act in a vulgar manner; "The drunkard tends to vulgarize"

coarsen collapse: make less subtle or refined; "coarsen one's ideals"; make or become coarse or coarser; "coarsen the surface"; "Their minds coarsened"

brutalize collapse: become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling; make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; "Life in the camps had brutalized him"; treat brutally

deflower collapse: deprive of virginity; "This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village"

desecrate collapse: remove the consecration from a person or an object; violate the sacred character of a place or language; "desecrate a cemetery"; "violate the sanctity of the church"; "profane the name of God"

contaminate collapse: make radioactive by adding radioactive material; "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated"

adulterate collapse: mixed with impurities; corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor"

maltreat collapse

mistreat collapse: treat badly; "This boss abuses his workers"; "She is always stepping on others to get ahead"

envenom collapse

demoralize collapse: confuse or put into disorder; "the boss's behavior demoralized everyone in the office"

cheapen collapse

play havoc with collapse

vitiate collapse

befoul collapse

denature collapse: make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes; modify (as a native protein) especially by heat, acid, alkali, or ultraviolet radiation so that all of the original properties are removed or diminished; add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb

jinx collapse: foredoom to failure; "This project is jinxed!"

aggrieve collapse: infringe on the rights of

ravish collapse

wreak havoc collapse

scathe collapse

infect collapse: contaminate with a disease or microorganism; communicate a disease to; "Your children have infected you with this head cold"; affect in a contagious way; "His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"; contaminate with ideas or an ideology; "society was infected by racism"

impair collapse: make worse or less effective; "His vision was impaired"

prostitute collapse: a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; sell one's body; exchange sex for money

bewitch collapse

persecute collapse: cause to suffer; "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union"

pollute collapse: make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"

crucify collapse: kill by nailing onto a cross; "Jesus Christ was crucified"

hex collapse: an evil spell; "a witch put a curse on his whole family"; "he put the whammy on me"; cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

disadvantage collapse: the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position; put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm; "This rule clearly disadvantages me"

molest collapse: harass or assault sexually; make indecent advances to

canker collapse: an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth); a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark; infect with a canker; become infected with a canker

subvert collapse: destroy completely; "we must not let our civil liberties be subverted by the current crisis"

debauch collapse

degrade collapse: lower the grade of something; reduce its worth; reduce the level of land, as by erosion

threaten collapse: to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:"He threatened me when I tried to call the police"; to be a menacing indication of something:"The clouds threaten rain"; "Danger threatens"

afflict collapse: cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed; cause pain or suffering in; "afflict with the plague"; "That debasement of the verbal currency that afflicts terms used in advertisement"; cause great unhappiness for; distress; "she was afflicted by the death of her parents"

injure collapse: cause injuries or bodily harm to

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