Synonyms of the word

whammy

• n. a serious or devastating setback.
• n. an evil spell; a curse or hex.

blow

• adj. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
• v. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
• v. (transitive) To propel by an air current.
• v. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
• v. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
• v. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
• v. To clear of contents by forcing air through.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
• v. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while…
• v. (intransitive) To explode.
• v. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly…
• v. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.
• v. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
• v. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate.
• v. (transitive) To leave.
• v. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
• v. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
• v. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
• v. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
• v. (slang, informal, African American Vernacular) To sing.
• n. A strong wind.
• n. (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
• n. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Cannabis.
• n. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
• n. The act of striking or hitting.
• n. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
• n. A damaging occurrence.
• v. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
• n. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
• n. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
• n. A bloom, state of flowering.

charm

• n. An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
• n. The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural.
• n. (physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the quantity of charm quarks & antiquarks.
• n. A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
• v. To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural…
• v. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
• v. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
• n. The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
• n. A flock, group (especially of finches).

curse

• n. A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
• n. A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
• n. The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
• n. A vulgar epithet.
• n. (slang) A woman's menses.
• v. (transitive) To place a curse upon (a person or object).
• v. To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
• v. (transitive) To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
• v. (intransitive) To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.
• v. To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which…

hex

• v. To put a hex (a spell, especially an evil spell) on.
• n. An evil spell or curse.
• n. A witch.
• n. (rare) A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).
• n. (computing, informal) Clipping of hexadecimal.
• n. A hexagonal space on a game board.
• n. (climbing) a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other…

jinx

• n. A hex; an evil spell.
• n. A person or thing supposed to bring bad luck.
• v. (transitive) To cast a spell on.
• v. (transitive) To bring bad luck to.
• interj. Used after the same response is said by two people simultaneously. Often, a game is played where the person…

reversal

• n. The state of being reversed.
• n. An instance of reversing.
• n. A change in fortune; a change from being successful to having problems.
• adj. Intended to reverse; implying reversal.

reverse

• adj. Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
• adj. Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
• adj. (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
• adj. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
• adj. (botany) Reversed.
• adj. (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
• adv. (now rare) In a reverse way or direction; upside-down.
• n. The opposite of something.
• n. The act of going backwards; a reversal.
• n. A piece of misfortune; a setback.
• n. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
• n. The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
• n. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
• n. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
• n. (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
• v. (intransitive) To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
• v. (intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
• v. (intransitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
• v. (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
• v. (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
• v. (ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
• v. (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
• v. (rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position.
• v. (rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position.
• v. To overthrow; to subvert.

setback

• n. An obstacle, delay, or disadvantage.
• n. (US) The required distance between a structure and a road.
• n. (architecture) A step-like recession in a wall.
• n. (possibly archaic) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
• n. A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.

spell

• n. (obsolete) Speech, discourse.
• n. Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
• n. A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
• v. (obsolete) To speak, to declaim.
• v. (obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.
• v. To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.
• v. (transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
• v. (intransitive) To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
• v. (transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To indicate that (some event) will occur.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, with “out”) To clarify; to explain in detail.
• v. To constitute; to measure.
• v. (transitive) To work in place of (someone).
• v. (transitive) To rest (someone or something).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To rest from work for a time.
• n. A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
• n. (informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).
• n. (colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short…
• n. A period of rest; time off.
• n. (colloquial, US) A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
• n. (cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
• n. (dialectal) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
• n. The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.