INGENIOUS – adjectives
– AIRY ingenious, witty …1664
– AKAMAI smart, clever, skilful, learned, expert, ingenious …1840 Amer. dial. (Hawaii)
– DEEP-BRAINED full of profound thought; ingenious …1597
– ENGINOUS † clever, ingenious, crafty, cunning; deceitful …c1325
– INGENURIOUS ingenious …1875 Eng. dial.
– NACKETY ingenious; handy; expert in doing any piece of work: applied to one who can turn his hand to anything …B1900 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– NACKY ingenious; dexterous …Bk1902 sl.
– NATTY handy, deft; industrious; clever, ingenious …1888 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– QUAINT † wise, knowing; skilled; clever, ingenious …a1250
– SUBTILE † cleverly devised; ingeniously contrived; ingenious …c1384
– THOUGHTY ingenious …1968 Amer. dial.
– TIPPY highly ingenious or clever; neat, smart …1863 colloq.
ingenious – nouns
– ENGINE an ingenious invention or thing …Bk1900 N. Ireland
– NOTION an ingenious device …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TIRLY-WIRLY, TURLIE-WHURLIE an ingenious contrivance; a whirligig …1895 Sc.
– WHEEZE an ingenious device …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– WRINKLE IN ONE’S HORN an ingenious device …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
ingenious – person
– GIMSONER one who is ingenious in making gimcracks or knickknacks; an ingenious person …1886 Eng. dial.
– INGINE † an ingenious person, a genius; a person of ability …1824 Sc.
INGENIOUSLY – adverbs
– SUBTLY cleverly, dexterously, skilfully; ingeniously, artfully, cunningly …c1350 arch.
INGENUITY – nouns
– INGINE † ingenuity, quickness of intellect; ability; knowledge, invention …1660 Sc.
– MANAGEMENT † tact, ingenuity …1760
– NATTINESS cleverness, ingenuity …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– QUAINTISE † wisdom, cleverness, skill, ingenuity …1297
– SUBTILITY † skill, cleverness, ingenuity …c1375
INGENUOUS – adjectives
– GAELIC foolish, ingenuous, naive …1910 Sc.
– OPEN-VISAGED † having a frank or ingenuous face …1494
– SIMPLE-HEARTED ingenuous, sincere, unsophisticated …1711
– SINGLE-MINDED sincere in mind or spirit; honest, straightforward; simple-minded, ingenuous …1577
– SLY † marked or characterized by skill or dexterity; showing skilfulness or ingenuity; cleverly or finely made …1297
ingenuous – person
– BABY-DOLL an ingenuous girl or woman with pretty features like those of a doll
– PALAMEDES a clever, ingenuous person …Bk1822
– SIMPLICITY a simple or ingenuous child …1887
INGRATIATE – verbs
– BOOTLICK to do subservient things to gain one’s favour; to seek to ingratiate oneself; to curry favour with, to toady …1845 Amer. dial.
– COSY UP TO to become intimate with; to ingratiate oneself with …1930s sl., orig. US
– EAT CHEESE to ingratiate oneself; to bring oneself into the favour or good graces of another …1970 Amer. dial.
– KEEP ONE’S ALLEY GOOD to ingratiate oneself …1909 Aust. & NZ sl.
– KEEP ONE’S MARBLE GOOD to ingratiate oneself …1909 Aust. & NZ sl.
– MAKE ONE’S ALLEY GOOD to ingratiate oneself; to curry favour by flattering …1909 Aust. & NZ sl.
– MAKE ONE’S MARBLE GOOD vb. to ingratiate oneself; to curry favour by flattering …1909 Aust. & NZ sl.
– PISS IN A PERSON’S POCKET to flatter or ingratiate oneself with a person …1967 sl., orig. Aust.
INGRATIATING – adjectives
– GAININ’ winning, winsome, lovable; ingratiating …1731 Sc.
– GREASY insincere in manner; ingratiating …1848 sl.
– PARTICULAR of persons: showing special kindness or attention to another, affable, markedly friendly, ingratiating, familiar in manner …1771 Sc.
– SLIMY insincere in manner; ingratiating …1602 sl.
– SMALMY insincere in manner; ingratiating …1924 sl.
– SMARMY in the manner of a sycophant; insincere in manner; ingratiating …1924 sl.
– SOAPY insincere in manner; ingratiating, sycophantic, flattering or persuasive …1854 sl.
ingratiating – person
– HING-TEE an ingratiating person; a parasite …1957 Sc.
– SMOOTHIE, SMOOTHY an ingratiating person …1939 sl., orig. US
ingratiating – verbs
– BROWN to curry favour, to toady; to be excessively deferential or ingratiating …World War II Amer. sl.
– BROWNIE to curry favour, to toady; to be excessively deferential or ingratiating …1965 Amer. dial.
– BROWN-NOSE to curry favour, to toady; to be excessively deferential or ingratiating … 1935 sl.
– BROWN PAPER to curry favour, to toady; to be excessively deferential or ingratiating …1968 Amer. dial.
– SMARM to flatter someone; to behave in an ingratiating manner …1911 UK sl.
– TOM to be servile or ingratiating …1963 Amer. dial.
– TOM OUT to be servile or ingratiating …2009 Amer. dial.
INGRATIATINGLY – adverbs
– SMOODGINGLY ingratiatingly …1962 Aust. sl.
INGREDIENT – nouns
– MICKLES ingredients, varieties …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
INHABIT – verbs
– HABIT to dwell in, to inhabit …1598 arch.
– HABITUATE † to settle as inhabitant in a place …1603
– KENNEL of a person: to lodge or lurk; to inhabit, to dwell; used contemptuously …1599
– MANURE † to inhabit a place …c1595
INHABITANT – nouns
– HABITANCY 1. residence as an inhabitant; inhabitance …1792
2. a body or mass of inhabitants collectively …1832-3
inhabitant – person
– ABIDER one who dwells; a dweller; a resident; an inhabitant …1611
– ABORIGEN, ABORIGIN * an aboriginal or native inhabitant …1587
– ABORIGINARY †* an aboriginal inhabitant …1869 poetic usage
– HABITANT one who dwells or resides in a place; a resident; an inhabitant; a dweller …1490
– HABITATOR †* a dweller, resident, inhabiter …1646
– INCOLIST †* an inhabitant …1657
– LIVER an inhabitant, a resident …1678 Amer. dial.
– NATURALIZANT †* a natural citizen or inhabitant …1653
– OLD RESIDENTER a resident, an inhabitant; esp. an early settler; a longtime resident …1827 Amer. dial.
– ONDWALLER an inhabitant …1879 Sc.
– RESIDENTER a resident, an inhabitant; esp. an early settler; a longtime resident …1709 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
WONNER an inhabitant; a dweller …1825 Sc.
INHABITED – adjectives
– DWELT † inhabited …1610
– HABITED dwelt in, inhabited …1866 arch.
inhabited – nouns
– HABITANCY * inhabitedness, populousness …1837
INHALANT – nouns
– SATAN’S SCENT any inhalant …1980s drugs sl.
– SATAN’S SECRET any inhalant …1980s drugs sl.
INHALATION – nouns
– INTAKE an inhalation; a drawing in of the breath …1899 Sc.
INHALE – verbs
– HALE to breathe heavily; to pant; to inhale …1892 Eng. dial.
– HALE FOR BREATH to breathe heavily; to pant; to inhale …1892 Eng. dial.
– SNUFT to sniff, to inhale sharply and noisily; to smell, to scent …1820 Eng. dial.
– SUCK † to draw or air or breath into the mouth; to inhale air, smoke, etc. …1590
INHARMONIOUS – adjectives
– ABSONANT harsh, inharmonious; fig. discordant or abhorrent to reason, nature, etc; unreasonable, unnatural …1564
– ABSONOUS † out of tune, inharmonious; fig. incongruous, absurd, unreasonable …1622
– ABSURD †* in music: inharmonious, jarring, out-of-tune …1617
– JANGLY harsh-sounding, inharmonious, discordant …a1800
– UNACCORDING † inharmonious …1398
inharmonious – nouns
– ABSURDITY † in music: lack of harmony, untunefulness …1674
inharmonious – verbs
– IMMODULATE †* to do a thing without due proportion; to be inharmonious …1623
INHERIT – verbs
– HEIR to become an heir to; to inherit …1806 Amer. dial.
– HERIT † to inherit …a1533
– SUCCEED † to fall heir to, to inherit, to come into possession of …1490
INHERITANCE – adjectives
– HEREDIPETOUS legacy-hunting; hunting for an inheritance …1866
– SUCCESSIVE † of persons: succeeding by inheritance …1592
– SUCCESSORY † succeeding by inheritance; hereditary …1610
inheritance – adverbs
– SUCCESSIVELY † by succession or inheritance …1594
inheritance – nouns
– BAIRN-DOLE inheritance …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BAIRN-PART inheritance …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– FLANDERS FORTUNE a relatively small fortune or inheritance …L17 sl.
– HERIT † inheritance …c1475
– INHERITAGE inheritance …1886 Eng. dial.
– PEELED EGG a rich inheritance …1721 Sc.
– SUCCESSION †* that to which a person succeeds as heir; an inheritance …1382
– ULTIMOGENITURE the mode of succession by which the right of inheritance pertains to the youngest of a family …1882
inheritance – verbs
– TAKE ON to succeed to an inheritance or business; to take charge of …1901 Sc.
– WAIT FOR DEAD MEN’S SHOES to look forward to an inheritance; to live in expectation of a legacy or other advantage from a man’s death …1546
INHERITED – adjectives
– BIGENOUS inherited from both parents …1894
INHERITING – adjectives
– ILL-HEIRED inheriting bad qualities …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
INHERITOR – people (also see HEIR)
– HERETRICE a female heir or inheritor; an heiress …c1575
– HERETRIX a female heir or inheritor; an heiress …c1575
– HERITOR one who inherits; an heir or heiress …1475
– HERITRESS an heiress, an inheritress …c1515
– HERITRIX a female heir or inheritor; an heiress …c1575
INHIBITED – adjectives
– BUTTONED UP reluctant to reveal emotion or to express thoughts freely; reserved, inhibited, or formal in manner or disposition; repressed prim …1767
– HUNG UP inhibited, neurotic …1952 US
– UPTIGHT inhibited, narrow-minded, very correct and strait-laced …1968 US
INHIBITIONS – verbs
– UNPIN ONE’S BACK HAIR to relax one’s inhibitions …M19 sl., orig. US
– WAIL to abandon one’s inhibitions; to lose oneself in an activity, esp. of musicians, or of sexual pleasure; …1955 sl., orig. US Black
INHOSPITABLE – adjectives
– MENSELESS greedy, covetous; selfish, inhospitable …1742 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– MINSHACH mean, niggardly, inhospitable …Bk1903 Sc.
– UNCOUTHIE unfriendly, inhospitable, dreary, awe-inspiring, fear-inspiring …1768 Sc.
– UNCOUTHY unfriendly, inhospitable …1768 Sc.
inhospitable – nouns
– PALTOCK’S INN †* a mean or inhospitable place …1579
inhospitable – person
– MOCK-BEGGAR † an uncharitable or inhospitable person …Bk1891
INHUMAN – adjectives
– ABHOMINAL † unworthy of a man; inhuman, unmanly …1550
– BEASTLY † inhuman, brutally cruel …1558
– IMMORTAL † superhuman, inhuman, excessive …c1540
– MANLESS † inhuman …c1611
inhuman – nouns
– ABHOMINALTY †* an inhuman deed …1483
inhuman – person
– HALF-MAN one who is only half-human, or deficient in humanity …c1000
– LESTRIGON † an inhuman monster, a cannibal; a bloodthirsty person …1591
– LESTRIGONIAN an inhuman monster, a cannibal; a bloodthirsty person …a1887
– MONSTER a person of repulsively unnatural character, or exhibiting such extreme cruelty or wickedness as to appear inhuman; a markedly cruel, depraved, vile, or hideous person …a1505
inhuman – verbs
– INHUMANIZE * to render inhuman, to make cruel …1871
INHUMANLY – adverbs
– IMMANELY hugely, monstrously, inhumanly …1612 arch.
– MANLESSLY † in an inhuman manner …1607
INITIAL – adjectives
– ACROLOGIC pert. to initials …1882
initial – nouns
– ALPHABET SOUP initialisms and acronyms in general …Amer. sl.
– SIGLE †* an initial or other character used to denote words …1614
initial – verbs
– PARAGRAPH † to sign, to initial …1601
– PARAPH to sign, esp. with initials; to initial …1667
INITIALLY – adverbs
– BEGINNINGLY † initially, at the beginning …a1340
INITIATION – nouns
– PADDLING an initiation ceremony …Bk1934 college sl.
– VEE-IN an initiation ritual whereby the new member is beaten by other gang members for allotted time, e.g. 1 minute …1980s US Black gang usage
INITIATIVE – adjectives
– GO-AHEAD enterprising, having energy and initiative …M19
initiative – nouns
– DRIVE energy and initiative …c1905 colloq.
– GUMP common sense, mother wit, shrewdness; also, initiative, enterprise, ‘drive’ …1920
– GUMPTION practical good sense or initiative; shrewdness; courage; enterprise …1719 colloq., orig. Sc.
– MOX(E)Y, MOXIE energy, initiative; strength, know-how; courage, nerve …1930 Amer. dial.
– SPRAWL initiative; energy …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
initiative – verbs
– HUSSLE to use initiative to obtain or secure; to live by one’s wits …M19 sl., orig. US
– HUSTLE to use initiative to obtain or secure; to live by one’s wits …M19 sl., orig. US
initiative – phrases
– ON ONE’S OWN HOOK on one’s own initiative; by oneself …1812 colloq.
INJECT – verbs
– MAINLINE to inject intravenously in non-drug use …1960s sl.
– PLAY THE VIOLIN to inject oneself …1980s Aust. drugs & prison sl.
INJECTION – nouns
– HOOK, THE a hypodermic injection …1941 Amer, sl., esp. military
– HYPE a hypodermic injection …1929 sl., orig. US
– HYPO a hypodermic needle or injection …1904 sl.
– LAVEMENT an injection …1794
– X an injection …1950s US drugs sl.
injection – verbs
– HYPO to administer a hypodermic injection …1925 sl.
INJUNCTION – nouns
– ADVISEMENT † an instruction how to act, an injunction, a warning …1538
– MANDAMENT †* injunction, command …1834
– MANDITION †* an injunction …1597
INJURE – nouns
– ANNOYMENT intent to injure, malice …1886 Eng. dial.
– NOYMENT intent to injure, malice …1886 Eng. dial.
injure – verbs
– ADOMMAGE †* to damage or injure …1475
– BEMANG to hurt; to injure; to maul …Bk1911 Sc.
– BEMAR † to injure seriously …c1400
– B.F. to injure …1980s US sl.
– BLAD to spoil, to injure …Bk1911 Sc.
– BLAUD to injure …Bk1911 Sc.
– BLOW ONE A NEW ASSHOLE to injure or rebuke someone …1968 Amer. sl.
– BLUNK to injure mischievously …Bk1911 Sc.
– BUST UP to injure severely …1978 US sl.
– BUTT-BANG to injure …1980s US sl.
– BUTTFUCK to injure …1980s US sl.
– CHEW ONE A NEW ASSHOLE to injure or rebuke someone …1986 Amer. sl.
– CUT ONE A NEW ASSHOLE to injure or rebuke someone …1972 Amer. sl.
– DAMMISH to injure, to damage …1894 Sc.
– DAMNIFY * to cause, injury, loss, or inconvenience to; to injure, to damage, to hurt; to inflict injury upon; to wrong …1512 (very common in the 17th century)
– DERE to injure or harm …arch.
– DISANNUL to disarrange, to inconvenience, to interfere with, to injure …1857 Eng. dial.
– DISASTER to injure seriously …1812 Sc.
– DO A PERSON IN THE EYE * to defraud, to injure, to humiliate a person …1891
– DO IN to injure …1905 sl.
– DO ONE DIRT to deceive, to mistreat, to treat meanly, to harm one, to injure, esp. underhandedly or by secret means …1897 Amer. dial.
– DO ONE DIRTY to deceive, to mistreat, to treat meanly, to harm one, to injure, esp. underhandedly or by secret means …1906 Amer. dial.
– ELT to handle roughly, to injure anything, such as an animal, the nap of cloth, etc., by too much rough handling; to pull about …1866 Sc.
– FAISE to take effect on; to show or make an impression on; to injure …1892 Ireland
– FAIZE to take effect on; to show or make an impression on; to injure …1892 Ireland
– FAZE to injure …1894 Amer. dial.
– FIZ to take effect on; to show or make an impression on; to injure …1892 Ireland
– GIVE THE SCRAWL to do a bad turn; to injure …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– GOOF UP to blunder, to spoil; to injure …1940s US sl.
– HAMPER to injure; to disarrange; to throw out of gear …1892 Eng. dial.
– IMPEACH † to hinder the action, progress, or well-being of; to affect detrimentally or prejudicially; to hurt, to harm, to injure, to endamage, to impair …1563
– IMPERISH † to impair, to injure, to make worse …1494
– MAKE ONE’S HASLET CURL to surprise or injure one …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– MAKE WORK to damage, to injure, to hurt …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MALAGAROUSE to injure or hurt, to punish with physical violence …1924 Sc.
– MALAGROOSE to injure or hurt, to punish with physical violence …1924 Sc.
– MALAGRUIZE to injure or hurt, to punish with physical violence …1924 Sc.
– MALAHACK to injure, to beat, to maltreat …1901 Amer. dial.
– MALLYHACK to injure, to beat, to maltreat …1953 Amer. dial.
– MALVADER to stun by a blow; to injure …Bk1905 Sc.
– MANG to break in pieces, to mutilate, to maim, to injure …1825 Sc.
– MAR to harm, to injure a person; later, to mangle, to disfigure …c1205 arch.
– MARTYR to cut down, to mutilate, to disfigure, to torture, to torment; to injure …1882 Sc.
– MISACKER to injure seriously …1892 Sc.
– MISCHIEVE to injure, to hurt, to damage; to spoil …1715 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– MISGUIDE to ill-use, to maltreat, to abuse, to spoil, to injure …1787 Sc.
– NAMSHACH to injure severely …1866 Sc.
– OFFEND † to strike so as to hurt; to wound, to hurt; to give physical pain to; to harm, to injure …c1385
– PLAY THE HANGMENT to injure, to play havoc or the mischief with …B1900 Eng. dial.
– REAM ONE A NEW ASSHOLE to injure or rebuke someone …1983 Amer. sl.
– RIMRACK to injure, damage, or destroy, esp. by misuse …1841 Amer. dial.
– RIP ONE A NEW ASSHOLE to injure or rebuke someone …1971 Amer. sl.
– SCADE to hurt, to injure …Bk1904 Sc.
– SCAM to injure, to crack; to spoil, to damage, to harm in some way, esp. of clothing …1866 Sc.
– SCATHE to injure, to damage, to destroy; to defame …1859 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SCHOLICK to seriously injure; to murder …1898 Eng. dial.
– SCOP to throw stones, etc., so as to injure …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCORT ABOUT to disturb, to injure …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCOTCH to injure partially …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SHEND to destroy or injure; to damage …arch.
– SHOND †* to harm, to injure …1338
– SKOP to throw stones, etc., so as to injure …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– TAINT † to affect injuriously; to cause detriment to; to hurt, to injure, to impair …1601
– TAME † to injure, to hurt …c1430
– TASH ABOUT to throw about so as to injure …1895 Sc.
– TEAR ONE’S ASS to injure oneself; to get into trouble; to be overwhelmed and defeated …1750 sl.
– TEAR ONE’S ASSHOLE to injure oneself; to get into trouble; to be overwhelmed and defeated …1961 sl.
– TEAR SOMEONE A NEW ASSHOLE to injure or rebuke someone …1968 Amer. sl., esp. military
– TERRIFY to damage, to injure, to destroy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TO-TEEN † to injure or annoy greatly …a1250
INJURED – adjectives
– ALL BROKE UP in poor health; injured …1955 Amer. dial.
– BAD ill, sick, in pain; injured …1716 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
– BANED † ruined, destroyed; injured, hurt …1568
– BANGED UP of people: beaten up, injured …20C sl.
– BEMANGIT injured …1806 Sc.
– BROKE UP in poor health; injured …1955 Amer. dial.
– BUGGERED injured …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BUGGERED UP injured …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BUNGED UP beaten, bruised, injured; out of order, damaged, run-down …1899 Amer. dial.
– CROCKED injured …Brit. sl.
– CROOK ill, ailing, out of sorts; injured, disabled …1916 Aust. & NZ
– DEMELLIT hurt, injured, disordered …B1900 Sc.
– FIN OUT injured, ill; near death …1916 Amer. dial.
– GAM lame, crooked, deformed; disabled, injured, sore; of an eye: wavering, uncertain …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– GAME lame, crippled, crooked, deformed; disabled, injured, sore; of an eye: wavering, uncertain …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– GAMMY lame; disabled through injury or pain; injured …1879 Eng. dial. & sl.
– HAYWIRE injured …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– IN BAD SHAPE injured or debilitated in any manner …20C
– LAID OUT injured; having fainted …Amer. World War I sl.
– LAMPSED † lamed, disabled, injured …1746 Eng. dial.
– LESED damaged, injured …a1600 Sc.
– MAMMOXED severely injured …1872 Amer. dial.
– MARRED † spoilt, injured …1611
– MISBODEN † injured …Bk1903 Eng. dial.
– ON THE BLINK injured …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– ON THE BUM injured …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– ON THE FRITZ injured …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– ON THE KIBOSH injured …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– OUT OF BUSINESS injured …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– OUT OF COMMISH injured …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– OUT OF COMMISSION injured …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– OUT OF FIX injured …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– OUT OF WHACK injured …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
injured – verbs
– BAFF to bathe an injured part to give it relief …Bk1898 Sc.
– BUST ONE’S ASS to get injured, esp. in a car or similar crash …1940s sl.
– GET ONE’S HEAD-GEAR to have an illness, to get one’s death-blow, to be mortally injured …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
INJURING, INJURIOUS – adjectives
– BALEFUL full of malign, deadly, or noxious influence; pernicious, destructive, noxious, injurious, mischievous, malignant …a1000
– DAMAGEABLE † causing loss or injury; hurtful, injurious …1474
– DAMAGEFUL † injurious, hurtful …c1449
– DAMAGEOUS † fraught with damage, hurtful, injurious; causing loss or disadvantage …c1386
– DAMNIFIABLE †* injurious, hurtful, detrimental …1604
– DAMNIFIC † causing damage or loss; injurious ..1727
– DANGEROUS † hurtful, injurious …1548
– DISPENDIOUS † causing loss or injury; hurtful, injurious …1557
– ILLING †* evil-doing, injuring, harming; speaking ill …c1220
– NAUGHT † injurious, hurtful; unlucky …1596
– NOCIVE † harmful, hurtful, injurious …1538
– NOCIVOUS †* hurtful, harmful, injurious, evil …1616
– OFFENCEFUL † injurious …B1900 rare or obs.
– OFFENSANT †* hurting, hurtful, injurious …1578
– OFFENSIBLE † of the nature of an offence, fault, or crime; hurtful, harmful, injurious; offensive …1574
– OFFENSIVE † hurtful, harmful, injurious …a1548
– PERNICIOUS having the quality of destroying; tending to destroy, kill, or injure; destructive, ruinous; fatal …1521
– SAIR destructive, harmful, injurious …1901 Sc.
– SCATHEFUL hurtful, injurious …1813 Sc.
– SCATHELY hurtful, injurious …1865 Sc.
– TORTIOUS † wrongful, injurious, hurtful; illegal …1387-8
INJURIOUSLY – adverbs
– DAMAGEABLY † injuriously …1660
– OFFENSIVELY † injuriously, hurtfully …1576
INJURY – adjectives
– OFFENDANT † causing injury or mischief …1547
injury – nouns
– ACCUMBRANCE † the of encumbering, impeding, or overwhelming; molestation, injury …1489
– BALE evil, esp. considered in its active operation, as destroying, blasting, injuring, hurting, paining, tormenting; fatal, dire, or malign quality of influence; woe, mischief, harm, injury; in earlier use often: death, infliction of death …a1000
– BRAIN a severe injury …Bk1911 Sc.
– BRAININ a severe injury …Bk1911 Sc.
– DAMISH damage, injury …1820 Sc.
– DAMMISHMENT damage, injury …1827 Sc.
– DEEDLE mortal injury or sickness; death …1853 Sc.
– DEMELLITIE a hurt, injury of kind; the effects of a dispute or broil …B1900 Sc.
– DENIAL a disadvantage, detriment, hindrance; loss, injury; a disappointment …1895 Eng. dial.
– DERE harm; injury; trouble …arch.
– FAZE an injury …1894 Amer. dial.
– GRIEVEMENT † a hurt, injury …1708 nonce word
– HACK havoc, injury, damage …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– HEART SCALD trouble, vexation, injury; a disgust …1813 Sc.
– HOLLYWOOD a feigned injury …1972 NZ sl.
– ILL evil, misfortune, injury; harm; misunderstanding …1810 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– IMBLEMISHMENT † defacement, injury …1529
– IMPEACH † injury, damage, detriment …1575
– IMPEACHMENT † detriment, impairment, injury, damage …1548
– INDETERMENT detriment, loss, injury; a stumbling-block …1860 Eng. dial.
– INDETRIMENT n. detriment, loss, injury; a stumbling-block …1860 Eng. dial.
– JACTURE † loss, injury, detriment …1515
– JAVEL a blow, an injury …B1900 Sc.
– LAME a hurt, injury, an accident …1778 Eng. dial.
– LESURE † hurt, injury, wound …c1420
– MALAGRUIZE a hurt, an injury, a drubbing …1916 Sc.
– MARRING † injury, harm, impairment …1357
– MAUGRE ill-will, bad feeling; vexation, blame; hurt, injury …1845 Sc.
– NAUGHTY a physical injury; hence, a disservice …1984 Brit. sl.
– OBLESION †* hurt, injury …1656
– OFFENCE † hurt, harm, injury, damage …c1374
– OFFENSION † hurt, injury, damage; displeasure, annoyance; what is offensive or causes disgust; wrong-doing, misdeed; fault …c1374
– OWIE a hurt, pain; a bruise or minor injury …1967 Amer. dial.
– PAIRING † injury, damage, impairment …1382
– PAIRMENT † impairment; injury, deterioration …c1330 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– PAYMENT damage, harm, injury …1856 Eng. dial.
– RAMIEGEISTER a sharp stroke or blow; also, an injury …1825 Sc.
– REMIGESTER a sharp stroke or blow; an injury …1825 Sc.
– SCALD trouble, vexation, injury; a disgust …1813 Sc.
– SCAM a spot, blemish, crack, injury, an abrasion …1866 Sc.
– SCATHE injury, damage, hurt, loss, danger; expense …1641 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SHOWER † a stroke of misfortune; a hardship or difficulty; an injury …a1375
– SUFFERANCE †* damage, injury …1604
– UMSHY a bruise or other injury …1867 Sc.
– UNISUNDE † unsoundness; injury …c1205
injury – verbs
– BUNK to cause something to bump; to suffer injury to a part of the body by striking it against something …1877 Amer. dial.
INJUSTICE – nouns
– UNLAW † a transgression of the law; an act of injustice; an injury …Bk1905 Sc.
INK – nouns
– BLACK WATER ink …1939 Amer. dial.
INKLING – nouns
– INKLE a notion, hint, suspicion, an inkling …1879 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– ITEM a hint; an inkling; information; a signal; a cue …1781 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– OBERING a hint, an inkling …1824 Sc.
– OOM an inkling, suspicion, notion, foreboding …1880 Sc.
– UMBRAGE † a suspicion, hint, inkling, or slight idea of a matter …1654-66
inkling – verbs
– MISDOUBT to doubt, to suspect; to fear, to apprehend; to think; to have an inkling or suspicion of …1877 Sc. & Eng. dial.
IN-LAW – person
– MARRIED-IN an in-law …1982 Amer. dial.
– OUTLAWS in-laws …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
INLET – nouns
– CUT a creek or inlet …1630
– EEL RUT a small inlet partially drained at low tide …1908 Amer. dial.
– GURNET an ocean inlet or cove …1890 Amer. dial.
– HAUL a small inlet or recess into which boats from the beach are drawn up for safety …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LAND-FEATHER † a bay or inlet …c1582
– MINN a mouth, inlet or arm of the sea; a deep hollow in the bottom of the sea; a bay or gulf the water of which is deeper than that of the sea outside it …1897 Sc.
– VENT † a creek or inlet …1604
– VOE an inlet of the sea; a deep bay or long creek; a fjord …1733 Sc.
INMOST – adjectives
– BENMOST inmost; farthest ‘ben’ …Bk1911 Sc.
inmost – nouns
– MARROW the inmost or central part …c1400
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