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Substantiivi

1. (countable) A cause of misery or ruin.
2. (chiefly Scotland) Alternative spelling of bone.
3. (countable, archaic) Chiefly in the names of poisonous plants or substances: a poison.
4. (uncountable, chiefly poetic) Misery, woe; also, doom, ruin; or physical injury, harm.
5. (uncountable, UK, dialectal, veterinary medicine) A disease of sheep in which breakdown of tissue occurs; rot.
6. (countable) A person or thing that causes death or destruction; a killer, a murderer, a slayer.
7. (uncountable) Death; destruction; (countable) an instance of this.

Verbi

1. To physically injure (someone or something); to harm, to hurt.
2. (figurative) To cause (someone) misery or ruin; to socially or spiritually injure (someone).
3. (UK, dialectal, veterinary medicine) To cause (sheep) a disease, especially the rot.
4. (obsolete) To kill (a person or animal), especially by poison.