Text: 1 to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of<the explosion in the sewers damaged the entire cityʼs water supply>Synonymsblemish, break, cripple, deface, disfigure, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, injure, mar, spoil, vitiateRelated Wordsenfeeble, undermine, weaken; erode, scour, wash out, wear (away); blight, tarnish; dent, dint; botch, gum (up); lacerate, wound; maim, mangle, mutilate, torment, torture; annihilate, crush, dash, decimate, demolish, destroy, devastate, pulverize, raze, ruin, scourge, shatter, smash, tear down, waste, wipe out, wreckNear Antonymscure, heal, help, rectify, remedy; edit, remodel, revise; ameliorate, better, enhance, improve, meliorateAntonymsfix, mend, patch, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, renovate, repair, revamp 2 to cause bodily damage to<his knee was badly damaged in the accident, and he walked with a limp for months>— see injure 1

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