Mischief

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  • noun. Behavior that causes annoyance or difficulty:
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Damage, destruction, or injury caused by a specific person or thing.
  • noun. A specific injury or harm done.
  • noun. The inclination or tendency to play pranks or get into trouble.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To hurt; harm; ruin.
  • To come to harm or misfortune; miscarry.
  • noun. A harmful or troublesome event, circumstance, or contingency; an action or occurrence attended with evil or vexation; an annoying, frustrating, or hurtful state or condition of things; misfortune; calamity: used with much latitude of application: as, some one is making mischief; the mischief is that he cannot keep his temper.
  • noun. The act, state, course, or disposition of causing annoyance, trouble, or harm; vexatious or injurious operation or tendency; the working of damage or disaster: as, the clouds bode mischief; what mischief is he up to now? often used in a kindly or playful sense, or for affectionate excuse: as, the lad is full of mischief, but not vicious.
  • noun. One who or that which does harm or causes injury or vexation; a source of trouble or annoyance: as, that child is a mischief.
  • noun. Annoyance, injury, or damage caused or produced; harm; hurt: as, to do mischief; irremediable mischief: now never used in the plural.
  • noun. The devil. [Colloq.]
  • noun. Synonyms Damage, Harm, etc. See injury.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by thoughtlessness, or in sport.
  • noun. Cause of trouble or vexation; trouble.
  • noun. to be doing harm or causing annoyance.
  • noun. to do mischief, especially by exciting quarrels.
  • noun. to cause great harm; to throw into confusion.
  • transitive verb. To do harm to.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Harm or evil caused by an agent or brought about by a particular cause.
  • noun. One who causes mischief. In a milder sense, one who causes petty annoyances. mischief-maker.
  • noun. Vexatious or annoying conduct.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
  • noun. the quality or nature of being harmful or evil
  • Word Usage
    "I. v.51 (423, 6) You wait on nature's mischief!] _Nature's mischief_ is mischief done to nature, violation of nature's order committed by wickedness."
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