The action of destroying, spoiling, or marring.

The action of impairing, or fact of being impaired; deterioration; injurious lessening or weakening.

The action of spoiling or damaging something; †squandering, waste (obsolete); injury, damage. Formerly also: †hindrance (obsolete).

The action of damage, v.

The action of deface, v.; defacement.

The action of destroying, injuring, marring, etc.; an instance or occasion of this.

The action of treating someone or something violently or roughly; damage, injury. Now historical and rare.

The action of defacing or disfiguring; defacement, disfigurement. Cf. face, v. 10. Obsolete. rare.

Defacement.

The action or process of defacing; the fact or state of being defaced; concrete a disfigurement.

Originally: disease, esp. infectious or communicable disease; an instance of this; an outbreak of disease; an epidemic. In later use also: invasion…

The action or fact of spoiling or damaging; damage, harm, impairment, or injury, esp. of a serious… Without const., or with upon; chiefly in to do,…

Harm, injury.

The action of damaging, or fact of being damaged.

Scottish. The action of destroying or spoiling something. Cf. mismake, v. 1b.

figurative. The action or fact of corrupting, spoiling, or harming. Cf. empoison, v. II.

The action of vitiating, the fact or state of being vitiated, in senses of the verb.

The action of spoiling; the fact of being spoilt.

The action or an act of attacking a person, animal, etc., violently or ferociously; savage behaviour or action.

The action of spoiling, damaging, or injuring.

aimless or frivolous behaviour; idling, time-wasting; (also) flirtatious play.