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  • 111consumption — Synonyms and related words: Sanforizing, TB, ablation, active use, aerogenic tuberculosis, appetite, appliance, application, atrophy, attenuation, attrition, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, cannibalism, carnage, carnivorism, carnivority,… …

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  • 112employment — Synonyms and related words: act, acting, action, active use, activism, activities, activity, affair, affairs, appliance, application, appointment, assignment, attendance, bag, behavior, berth, bespeaking, billet, booking, briefing, business,… …

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  • 113exertion — Synonyms and related words: action, active use, activity, appliance, application, assiduity, assiduousness, consumption, determination, diligence, drive, effort, elbow grease, employ, employment, endeavor, exercise, exercising, good use, hard… …

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  • 114injury — Synonyms and related words: abomination, abrasion, abuse, ache, aching, affront, agony, aspersion, atrocity, bad, bane, bankruptcy, befoulment, bereavement, blemish, blight, blow, breach, break, breakage, breakdown, brickbat, burn, chafe, check,… …

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  • 115savage — Synonyms and related words: Draconian, Goth, Gothic, Mafioso, Neanderthal, Tartarean, Young Turk, abrade, abuse, afflict, aggressive, aggrieve, agonize, animal, antagonistic, anthropophagite, anthropophagous, assault, atrocious, attack, baneful,… …

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  • 116maltreat — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. abuse, ill treat, misuse. See malevolence, wrong. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. injure, damage, ill treat; see abuse 1 , hurt 1 . III (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To hurt or injure by maltreatment: abuse …

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  • 117mishandle — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. maltreat; mismanage, misguide. See error, wrong. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. mistreat, harm, misemploy; see abuse 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. botch, *screw up, *flub, mismanage, mess up,… …

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  • 118abuse — abusable /euh byooh zeuh beuhl/, adj. abuser, n. v. /euh byoohz /; n. /euh byoohs /, v., abused, abusing, n. v.t. 1. to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one s authority. 2. to treat in a harmful, injurious, or offensive way: to abuse a …

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  • 119property — prop·er·ty n pl ties [Anglo French propreté proprieté, from Latin proprietat proprietas, from proprius own, particular] 1: something (as an interest, money, or land) that is owned or possessed see also asset, estate, interest …

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  • 120injure — Synonyms and related words: abrade, abuse, afflict, affront, aggravate, aggrieve, bark, batter, befoul, bespatter, bewitch, blemish, blight, bloody, break, bruise, buffet, burn, chafe, check, chip, claw, condemn, constrain, contort, corrupt,… …

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