| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A cause of suffering or harm: affliction, bane, curse, evil, ill, plague, woe. See HELP. | | VERB: | 1. To bring great harm or suffering to: afflict, agonize, anguish, curse, excruciate, plague, rack, smite, strike, torment, torture. See ATTACK, HELP. 2. To criticize harshly and devastatingly: blister, drub, excoriate, flay, lash, rip into, scarify1, scathe, scorch, score, slap, slash. Informal : roast. Slang : slam. Idioms: burn someone's ears, crawl all over, pin someone's ears back, put someone on the griddle, put someone on the hot seat, rake over the coals, read the riot act to. See PRAISE.
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