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#649. [Capability of producing evil. Bad qualities.] Badness. -- N.
hurtfulness &c. Adj.; virulence.
evil doer &c. 913; bane &c. 663; plague spot &c. (insalubrity) 657;
evil star, ill wind; hoodoo; Jonah; snake in the grass, skeleton in the
closet; amari aliquid, thorn in the side.
malignity; malevolence &c. 907; tender mercies [ironically].
ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution,
outrage; misusage &c. 679; injury &c. (damage) 659; knockout drops [U. S.].
badness &c. adj.; peccancy, abomination; painfulness &c. 830;
pestilence &c. (disease) 655; guilt &c. 947; depravity &c. 945.
V. be burtful &c. adj.; cause evil, produce evil, inflict evil, work
evil, do evil &c. 619; damnify, endamage, hurt, harm; injure &c. (damage)
659; pain &c. 830.
wrong, aggrieve, oppress, persecute; trample upon, tread upon, bear
hard upon, put upon; overburden; weigh down, weigh heavy on; victimize; run
down; molest &c. 830.
maltreat, abuse; ill-use, ill-treat; buffet, bruise, scratch, maul;
smite &c. (scourge) 972; do violence, do harm, do a mischief; stab, pierce,
outrage.
do mischief, make mischief; bring into trouble.
destroy &c. 162.
Adj. hurtful, harmful, scathful, baneful, baleful; injurious,
deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of
mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome;
prejudicial; disserviceable, disadvantageous; wide-wasting.
unlucky, sinister; obnoxious; untoward, disastrous.
oppressive, burdensome, onerous; malign &c. (malevolent) 907.
corrupting &c. (corrupt &c. 659); virulent, venomous, envenomed,
corrosive; poisonous &c. (morbific) 657; deadly &c. (killing) 361;
destructive &c. (destroying) 162; inauspicious &c. 859.
bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful; horrid, horrible;
dire; rank, peccant, foul, fulsome; rotten, rotten at the core.
vile, base, villanous; mean &c. (paltry) 643; injured &c. deteriorated
&c. 659; unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent; below par &c.
(imperfect) 651; illcontrived, ill-conditioned; wretched, sad, grievous,
deplorable, lamentable; pitiful, pitiable, woeful &c. (painful) 830.
evil, wrong; depraved &c. 945; shocking; reprehensible &c.
(disapprove) 932. hateful, hateful as a toad; abominable, detestable,
execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded; damned, damnable; infernal;
diabolic &c. (malevolent) 907.
unadvisable &c. (inexpedient) 647; unprofitable &c. (useless) 645;
incompetent &c. (unskillful) 699; irremediable &c. (hopeless) 859.


Adv. badly &c. Adj. ; wrong, ill; to one's cost; where the shoe
pinches.
Phr. bad is the best: the worst come to the worst; herba mala presto
cresco; "wrongs unredressed or insults unavenged " [Wordsworth].

#650. Perfection. -- N. perfection; perfectness &c. adj.;
indefectibility; impeccancy, impeccability.
pink, beau ideal, phenix, paragon; pink of perfection, acme of
perfection; ne plus ultra; summit &c. 210.
cygne noir; philosopher's stone; chrysolite, Koh-i-noor.
model, standard, pattern, mirror, admirable Crichton; trump, very
prince of.
masterpiece, superexcellence &c. (goodness) 648; transcendence &c.
(superiority) 33.
V. be perfect &c. adj.; transcend &c. (be supreme) 33.
bring to perfection, perfect, ripen, mature; complete &,,c. 729; put
in trim &c. (prepare) 673; maturate.
Adj. perfect, faultless; indefective, indeficient, indefectible;
immaculate, spotless, impeccable; free from imperfection &c. 651;
unblemished, uninjured &c. 659; sound, sound as a roach; in perfect
condition; scathless, intact, harmless; seaworthy &c. (safe) 644; right as
a trivet; in seipso totus teres atque rotundus [Horace]; consummate &c.
(complete) 52; finished &c. 729.
best &c. (good) 648; model, standard; inimitable, unparagoned,
unparalleled &c. (supreme) 33; superhuman, divine; beyond all praise &c.
(approbation) 931; sans peur et sans reproche.
adv. to perfection; perfectly &c. adj.; ad unguem; clean, - as a
whistle.
phr. " let us go on unto perfection " [ Hebrews vi, 1]; " the
perfection of art is to conceal art [Quintilian].

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#651. Imperfection. -- N. imperfection; imperfectness &c. Adj.;
deficiency; inadequacy &c. (insufficiency) 640; peccancy &c. (badness) 649;
immaturity &c. 674.
fault, defect, weak point; screw loose; flaw &c. (break) 70; gap &c.
198; twist &c. 243; taint, attainder; bar sinister, hole in one's coat;
blemish &c. 848; weakness &c. 160; half blood; shortcoming &c. 304;
drawback; seamy side.
mediocrity; no great shakes, no great catch; not much to boast of;
one-borse shay.
V. be imperfect &c. adj.; have a defect &c. n.; lie under a
disadvantage; spring a leak.
not pass muster, barely pass muster; fall short &c. 304.
Adj. imperfect; not perfect &c. 650; deficient, defective; faulty,
unsound, tainted; out of order, out of tune; cracked, leaky; sprung; warped
&c. (distort) 243; lame; injured &c. (deteriorated) 659; peccant &c. (bad)
649; frail &c. (weak) 160; inadequate &c. (insufficient) 640; crude &c.
(unprepared) 674; incomplete &c. 53; found wanting,; below par; short-
handed; below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full
complement.
indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre; average &c. 29; so-so;
coucicouci, milk and water; tolerable, fair, passable; pretty well, pretty
good; rather good, moderately good; good; good enough, well enough,
adequate; decent; not bad, not amiss; inobjectionable, unobjectionable,
admissible, bearable, only better than nothing.
secondary, inferior; second-rate, second-best; one-horse [U.S.].
Adv. almost &c.; to a limited extent, rather &c. 32; pretty,
moderately, passing; only, considering, all things considered, enough.
Phr. surgit amari aliquid.

#652. Cleanness. -- N. cleanness, cleanliness &c. adj.; purity;
cleaning &c. v.; purification, defecation &c. v.; purgation, lustration;
detersion, abstersion; epuration, mundation|; ablution, lavation,
colature|; disinfection &c. v.; drainage, sewerage.
lavatory, laundry, washhouse; washerwoman, laundress, dhobi,
laundryman, washerman; scavenger, dustman, sweep; white wings [Local U. S.]
brush; broom, besom, mop, rake, shovel, sieve, riddle, screen, filter;
blotter.
napkin, cloth, maukin|, malkin|, handkerchief, towel, sudary; doyley,
doily, duster, sponge, mop, swab.
cover, drugget.
wash, lotion, detergent, cathartic, purgative; purifier &c. v.;
disinfectant; aperient; benzene, benzine benzol, benolin; bleaching powder,
chloride of lime, dentifrice, deobstruent, laxative.
V. be clean, render clean &c. Adj.
clean, cleanse; mundify|, rinse, wring, flush, full, wipe, mop,
sponge, scour, swab, scrub, brush up.
wash, lave, launder, buck; absterge|, deterge; decrassify; clear,
purify; depurate, despumate, defecate; purge, expurgate, elutriate,
lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack; filter, filtrate; drain,
strain.
disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize; whitewash; castrate,
emasculate.
sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush, sweep.
rout out, clear out, sweep out &c.; make a clean sweep of.
Adj. clean, cleanly; pure; immaculale; spotless, stainless, taintless;
trig; without a stain, unstained, unspotted, unsoiled, unsullied,
untainted, uninfected; sweet, sweet as a nut.
neat, spruce, tidy, trim, gimp, clean as a new penny, like a cat in
pattens; cleaned &c. v.; kempt.
abstergent, cathartic, cleansing, purifying.
Adv. neatly &c. adj.; clean as a whistle.

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#653. Uncleanness. -- N. uncleanness &c. Adj.; impurity; immundity,
immundicity; impurity &c. [of mind] 961.
defilement, contamination &c. v.; defoedation|; soilure, soiliness|;
abomination; leaven; taint, tainture|; fetor &c. 401. decay; putrescence,
putrefaction; corruption; mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo|.
slovenry; slovenliness &c. Adj. squalor.
dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin|, slammock,
slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dustman, sweep; beast.
dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge,
smut, grit, grime, raff; sossle, sozzle.

sordes, dregs, grounds, lees; argol; sediment, settlement heeltap;
dross, drossiness; mother|, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders.
reerement, slag; scum, froth.
hogwash; ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater; rinsings, czheeseparings;
sweepings &c. (useless refuse) 645; offscourings, outscourings; off scum;
caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff; scurf, scurfiness;
exuviae, morphea; fur, furfur; dandruff, tartar.
riffraff; vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch.
mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh,
sposh [U. S.].
spawn, offal, gurry [U. S.]; lientery; garbage, carrion; exereta &c.
299; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces,
feces, , excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit; sewage, sewerage; muck;
coprolite; guano, manure, compost.
dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes;
toilet, john, head; cess, cesspool; sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain,
sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole.
sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption; slum,
rookery.
V. be unclean, become unclean &c. Adj.; rot, putrefy, ferment, fester,
rankle, reek; stink &c. 401; mold, molder; go bad &c. adj.
render unclean &c. adj.; dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge,
smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch;
begrease;.dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear &c.,
bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully,
pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven;, corrupt &c. (injure)
659; cover with dust &c. n.; drabble in the mud; roil.
wallow in the mire; slobber, slabber.
Adj. unclean, dirty, filthy, grimy; soiled &c. v.; not to be handled
with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid,
dreggy; slimy; mussy [U.S.].
uncleanly, slovenly, untidy, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed;
uncombed, unkempt, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained,
unpurified; grody to the max; squalid; lutose, slammocky, slummocky,
sozzly.
nasty, coarse, foul, impure, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky,
reechy; fetid &c. 401.
moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad,
gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten,
corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive,
putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant;
fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, excrementitious; scurfy, scurvy,
impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting &c. v.; rotten as a pear, rotten as
cheese.
crapulous &c. (intemperate) 954; gross &c. (impure in mind) 961;
fimetarious, fimicolous.
Phr. " they that touch pitch will be defiled " [Much Ado About
Nothing].

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#654. Health. -- N. health, sanity; soundness &c. adj.; vigor; good
health, perfect health, excellent health, rude health, robust health;
bloom. mens sana in corpore sano; Hygeia; incorruption, incorruptibility;
good state of health, clean bill of health; eupepsia; euphoria, euphory;
St. Anthony's fire.
V. be in health &c. adj. bloom, flourish.
keep body and soul together, keep on one's legs; enjoy good health,
enjoy a good state of health; have a clean bill of health.
return to health; recover &c. 660; get better &c. (improve) 658; take
a new lease of life, fresh lease of life; recruit; restore to health; cure
&c. (restore) 660; tinker.
Adj. healthy, healthful; in health &c. n.; well, sound, hearty, hale,
fresh, green, whole; florid, flush, hardy, stanch, staunch, brave, robust,
vigorous, weatherproof.
unscathed, uninjured, unmaimed, unmarred, untainted; sound of wind and
limb, safe and sound.
on one's legs; sound as a roach, sound as a bell; fresh as a daisy,
fresh as a rose, fresh as April; hearty as a buck; in fine feather, in high
feather; in good case, in full bloom; pretty bobbish, tolerably well, as
well as can be expected.
sanitary &c. (health-giving) 656; sanatory &c. (remedial) 662.
phr. " health that snuffs the morning air" [Grainger); non est vivere
sed valere vita [Martial].


#655. Disease. -- N. disease; illness, sickness &c. adj.; ailing &c. "
all the ills that flesh is heir to " [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity|;
infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady; distemper,
distemperature.
visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit.
delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy; cachexia, atrophy,
marasmus; indigestion, dyspepsia; decay &c. (deterioration) 659; decline,
consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration.
taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity, infestation; epidemic,
pandemic, endemic, epizootic; murrain, plague, pestilence, virus, pox.
sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple &c. (swelling) 250;
carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold
sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease,
malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus,
sphacelation, leprosy, eruption, rash, breaking out.
fever, calenture; inflammation.
ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic
cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague,
pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning,
bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial
fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of
the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash,
cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea,
cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema;
gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu;
hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes,
itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis,
phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm,
rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula,
seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsilitis, tracheocele,
trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping
cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.
fatal disease &c. (hopeless) 859; dangerous illness, galloping
consumption, churchyard cough; general breaking up, break up of the system.
[Disease of mind] idiocy &c. 499; insanity &c. 503.
martyr to disease; cripple; " the halt the lame and the blind";
valetudinary, valetudinarian; invalid, patient, case; sickroom, sick-
chamber.
[Science of disease] pathology, etiology, nosology.
[Veterinary] anthrax, bighead; blackleg, blackquarter; cattle plague,
glanders, mange, scrapie, milk sickness; heartworm, feline leukemia,
roundworms; quarter-evil, quarter-ill; rinderpest.
V. be ill &c. adj.; ail, suffer, labor under, be affected with,
complain of, have; droop, flag, languish, halt; sicken, peak, pine; gasp.
keep one's bed; feign sickness &c. (falsehood) 544.
lay by, lay up; take a disease, catch a disease &c. n., catch an
infection; break out.
Adj. diseased; ailing &c. v.; ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with;
indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; affected with illness,
afflicted with illness; laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in
hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts; under the weather
[U. S.]; valetudinary.
unsound, unhealthy; sickly, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic,
unbraced. drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting.
morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid,
mangy, leprous, cankered; rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core;
withered, palsied, paralytic;dyspeptic; luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic,
phthisic, rachitic; syntectic, syntectical; tabetic, varicose.
touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping; hors de combat
&c. (useless) 645.
weakly, weakened &c. (weak) 160; decrepit; decayed &c. (deteriorated)
659; incurable &c. (hopeless) 859; in declining health; cranky; in a bad
way, in danger, prostrate; moribund &c. (death) 360.
morbific &c. 657; epidemic, endemic; zymotic.


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#656. Salubrity. -- N. salubrity; healthiness &c. Adj.
fine air, fine climate; eudiometer.
[Preservation of health] hygiene; valetudinarian, valetudinarianism;
sanitarian; sanitarium, sanitOrium.
V. be salubrious &c. Adj.; agree with; assimilate &c. 23.
Adj. salubrious, salutary, salutiferous; wholesome; healthy,
healthful; sanitary, prophYlactic, benign, bracing, tonic, invigorating,
good for, nutritious; hygeian, hygienic.
innoxious, innocuous, innocent; harmless, uninjurious, uninfectious.
sanative &c. (remedial) 662; restorative &c. (reinstate) 660; useful
&c. 644.

#657. Insalubrity. -- N. insalubrity; unhealthiness &c. Adj.;
nonnaturals; plague spot; malaria &c. (poison) 663; death in the pot,
contagion; toxicity.
Adj. insalubrious; unhealthy, unwholesome; noxious, noisome; morbific,
morbiferous; mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious; pestilent, pestiferous,
pestilential; virulent, venomous, envenomed, poisonous, toxic, toxiferous,
narcotic.
contagious, infectious, catching, taking, epidemic, zymotic;
epizootic.
innutritious, indigestible, ungenial; uncongenial &c. (disagreeing)
24.
deadly &c. (killing) 361.


#658. Improvement. -- N. improvement; amelioration, melioration;
betterment; mend, amendment, emendation; mending &c. v.; advancement;
advance &c. (progress) 282; ascent &c. 305; promotion, preferment;
elevation &c. 307; increase &c. 35; cultivation, civilization; culture,
march of intellect; menticulture; race-culture, eugenics.
reform, reformation; revision, radical reform; second thoughts,
correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration; purification &c. 652;
oxidation; repair &c. (restoration) 660; recovery &c. 660.
revise, new edition.
reformer, radical.
V. improve; be better, become better, get better; mend, amend.
advance &c. (progress) 282; ascend &c. 305; increase &c. 35; fructify,
ripen, mature; pick up, come about, rally, take a favorable turn; turn over
a new leaf, turn the corner; raise one's head, sow one's wild oats; recover
&c. 660.
be better &c. adj., be improved by; turn to right account, turn to
good account, turn to best account; profit by, reap the benefit of; make
good use of, make capital out of; place to good account.
render better, improve, mend, amend, better; ameliorate, meliorate;
correct; decrassify.
improve upon, refine upon; rectify; enrich, mellow, elaborate, fatten.
promote, cultivate, advance, forward, enhance; bring forward, bring
on; foster &c. 707; invigorate &c. (strengthen) 159.
touch up, rub up, brush up, furbish up, bolster up, vamp up, brighten
up, warm up; polish, cook, make the most of, set off to advantage; prune;
repair &c. (restore) 660; put in order &c. (arrange) 60.
review, revise; make -corrections,make improvements &c. n.; doctor &c.
(remedy) 662; purify,&c. 652.
relieve, refresh, infuse new blood into, recruit.
reform, remodel, reorganize; new model.
view in a new light, think better of, appeal from Philip drunk to
Philip sober.
palliate, mitigate; lessen an evil &c. 36 .
Adj. improving &c. v.; progressive, improved &c. v.; better, better
off, better for; all the better for; better advised.
reformatory, emendatory; reparatory &c. (restorative) 660; remedial
&c. 662.
corrigible, improvable; accultural.
adv. on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on
better advice; ad melius inquirendum.
phr. urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit.

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#659. Deterioration. -- N. deterioration, debasement; wane, ebb;
recession &c. 287; retrogradation &c. 283; decrease &c. 36.
degeneracy, degeneration, degenerateness; degradation; depravation,
depravement; devolution; depravity &c. 945; demoralization, retrogression;
masochism.
impairment, inquination|, injury, damage, loss, detriment,
delaceration|, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath; perversion,
prostitution, vitiation, discoloration, oxidation, pollution, defoedation|,
poisoning, venenation|, leaven, contamination, canker, corruption,
adulteration, alloy.
decline, declension, declination; decadence, decadency; falling off
&c. v.; caducity, decrepitude.
decay, dilapidation, ravages of time, wear and tear; corrosion,
erosion; moldiness, rottenness; moth and rust, dry rot, blight, marasmus,
atrophy, collapse; disorganization; delabrement &c. (destruction). 162;
aphid, Aphis, plant louse, puceron; vinefretter, vinegrub.
wreck, mere wreck, honeycomb, magni nominis umbra; jade, plug,
rackabones [U. S.], skate [U. S.]; tackey, tacky [U. S.].
V. be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated &c.
Adj.; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane &c.
(decrease) 36; ebb; retrograde &c. 283- decline, droop; go down &c. (sink)
306; go downhill, go from bad to worse, go farther and fare worse; jump out
of the frying pan into the fire.
run to seed, go to seed, run to waste swale|, sweal|; lapse, be the
worse for; sphacelate: break, break down; spring a leak, crack, start;
shrivel &c. (contract) 195; fade, go off, wither, molder, rot, rankle,
decay, go bad; go to decay, fall into decay; " fall into the sear and
yellow leaf," rust, crumble, shake; totter, totter to its fall; perish &c.
162; die &c. 360.
[Render less good] deteriorate; weaken &c. 160; put back, set back;
taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt,
exulcerate|, pollute, vitiate, inquinate|; debase, embase|; denaturalize,
denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate;
stain &c. (dirt) 653; discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper
with, prejudice.
pervert, prostitute, demoralize, brutalize; render vicious &c. 945.
embitter, acerbate, exacerbate, aggravate.
injure, impair, labefy, damage, harm, hurt, shend|, scath|, scathe,
spoil, mar, despoil, dilapidate, waste; overrun; ravage; pillage &c. 791.
wound, stab, pierce, maim, lame, surbate|, cripple, hough, hamstring,
hit between wind and water, scotch, mangle, mutilate, disfigure, blemish,
deface, warp.
blight, rot; corrode, erode; wear away, wear out; gnaw, gnaw at the
root of; sap, mine, undermine, shake, sap the foundations of, break up;
disorganize, dismantle, dismast; destroy &c. 162.
damnify &c. (aggrieve) 649; do one's worst; knock down; deal a blow
to; play havoc with, play sad havoc with, play the mischief with, play the
deuce with, play the very devil with, play havoc among, play sad havoc
among, play the mischief among, play the deuce among, play the very devil
among; decimate.
Adj. unimproved &c. (improve &c. 658); deteriorated &c. v.; altered,
altered for the worse; injured &c. v.; sprung; withering, spoiling &c. v.;
on the wane, on the decline; tabid; degenerate; marescent; worse; the worse
for, all the worse for; out of repair, out of tune; imperfect &c. 651; the
worse for wear; battered; weathered, weatherbeaten; stale, passe, shaken,
dilapidated, frayed, faded, wilted, shabby, secondhand, threadbare; worn,
worn to a thread, worn to a shadow, worn to the stump, worn to rags;
reduced, reduced to a skeleton; far gone; tacky [U. S.*].
decayed &c. v.; motheaten, wormeaten; mildewed, rusty, moldy, spotted,
seedy, time-worn, moss-grown; discolored; effete, wasted, crumbling,
moldering, rotten, cankered, blighted, tainted; depraved &c. (vicious) 945;
decrepid, decrepit; broke, busted, broken, out of commission, broken down;
done, done for, done up; worn out, used up, finished; fit for the dust
hole, fit for the wastepaper basket past work &c. (useless) 645.
at a low ebb, in a bad way, on one's last legs; undermined, deciduous;
nodding to its fall &c. (destruction) 162; tottering &c,. (dangerous) 665:
past cure &c. (hopeless) 859; fatigued &c. 688; retrograde &c.
(retrogressive) 283; deleterious &c. 649.

phr. out of the frying pan into the fire; agrescit medendo; "what a falling
off was there! " [Hamlet].


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#660. Restoration. -- N. restoration, restoral; reinstatement,
replacement, rehabilitation, reestablishment, reconstitution,
reconstruction; reproduction &c. 163; renovation, renewal; revival,
revivessence, reviviscence; refreshment &c. 689; resuscitation,
reanimation, revivification, reviction|; Phenix; reorganization.
renaissance, second youth, rejuvenescence,. new birth; regeneration,
regeneracy, regenerateness; palingenesis, reconversion.
redress, retrieval, reclamation, recovery; convalescence; resumption,
resumption; sanativeness.
recurrence &c. (repetition) 104; rechauffe, rifacimento.
cure, recure|, sanation|; healing &c. v.; redintegration;
rectification; instauration.
repair, reparation; recruiting &c. v.; cicatrization; disinfection;
tinkering.
reaction; redemption &c. (deliverance) 672; restitution &c. 790;
relief &c. 834.
tinker, cobbler; vis medicatrix &c. (remedy) 662. curableness.
V. return to the original state; recover, rally, revive; come come to,
come round, come to oneself; pull through, weather the storm, be oneself
again; get well,get round, get the better of, get over, get about; rise
from one's ashes, rise from the grave; survive &c. (outlive) 110; resume,
reappear; come to, come to life again; live again, rise again.
heal, skin over, cicatrize; right itself.
restore, put back, place in statu quo; reinstate, replace, reseat,
rehabilitate, reestablish, reestate, reinstall.
reconstruct, rebuild, reorganize, reconstitute; reconvert; renew,
renovate; regenerate; rejuvenate.
redeem, reclaim, recover, retrieve; rescue &c. (deliver) 672.
redress, recure; cure, heal, remedy, doctor, physic, medicate; break
of; bring round, set on one's legs.
resuscitate, revive, reanimate, revivify, recall to life; reproduce
&c. 163; warm up; reinvigorate, refresh &c. 689.
redintegrate, make whole; recoup &c. 790; make good, make all square;
rectify; put right, put to rights, set right, set to rights, set
straight; set up, correct; put in order &c. (arrange) 60; refit, recruit;
fill up, fill up the ranks; reinforce.
repair; put in repair, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair;
retouch, botch|, vamp, tinker, cobble; do up, patch, up plaster up, vamp
up; darn, finedraw, heelpiece; stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk,
careen, splice, bind up wounds.
Adj. restored &c. v.; redivivus, convalescent; in a fair way; none the
worse; rejuvenated.
restoring &c. v.; restorative, recuperative; sanative, reparative,
sanatory, reparatory; curative, remedial.
restorable, recoverable, sanable, remediable, retrieveable, curable.
Adj. in statu quo; as you were.
phr. revenons a nos moutons; medecin, gueris-toi toi-meme; vestigia nulla
retrorsum [Horace].

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