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Name

Definition 1:
• The chief devil; Satan.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: Aduwallah, Adversary, Al-Shaytaan, Antichrist, archfiend, Ash-Shaytan, Azazel, Beast, Beelzebub, bogey, cosmocrat, deceiver, deuce, Devil, diablo, Diabolus, dickens, Dragon, Enemy, Evil One, Father of Lies, Gog, Iblis, Jack Ketch, leviathan, lord of the flies, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Old Gentleman, Old Hairy, Old Harry, Old Nick, Old One, Old Scratch, Old Serpent, Prince of Darkness, Prince of Demons, Prince of Evil, Sam Scratch, Satan, Serpent, shaitan, Son of the Dawn
Labels: lifestyle, religion, theology
Name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛvəl/

Definition 1:
• The chief devil; Satan.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: Aduwallah, Adversary, Al-Shaytaan, Antichrist, archfiend, Ash-Shaytan, Azazel, Beast, Beelzebub, bogey, cosmocrat, deceiver, deuce, Devil, diablo, Diabolus, dickens, Dragon, Enemy, Evil One, Father of Lies, Gog, Iblis, Jack Ketch, leviathan, lord of the flies, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Old Gentleman, Old Hairy, Old Harry, Old Nick, Old One, Old Scratch, Old Serpent, Prince of Darkness, Prince of Demons, Prince of Evil, Sam Scratch, Satan, Serpent, shaitan, Son of the Dawn
Wiktionary-listed antonyms: God
Labels: lifestyle, religion, theology
Noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛvəl/

Definition 1:
• An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: demon
Wiktionary-listed antonyms: angel, god
Labels: lifestyle, religion, theology

Definition 2:
• A man with red or orange skin and a pair of horns on his head, a pointed goatee, and a long tail, who carries a pitchfork, represents evil, and is portrayed to children as a boogeyman who punishes bad behavior.
Labels: arts, folklore, history, human-sciences, literature, media, publishing, sciences

Definition 3:
• The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.
Example: The devil in me wants to let him suffer.
Wiktionary-listed antonyms: angel, conscience

Definition 4:
• A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.
Example: Those two kids are devils in a toy store.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: imp, rascal, scamp, scoundrel
Wiktionary-listed antonyms: angel, saint

Definition 5:
• A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
Example: That math problem was a devil.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: bastard, bitch, bugger, stinker
Wiktionary-listed antonyms: cakewalk, piece of cake

Definition 6:
• Hell.
Example: What in the devil is that?
Example: What the devil is that?
Example: She is having a devil of a time fixing it.
Example: You can go to the devil for all I care.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: deuce, dickens, f***, heck, hell
Labels: euphemistic, as an intensifier, with an article

Definition 7:
• A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: bugger, cow, sod

Definition 8:
• A printer's assistant.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: printer's devil

Definition 9:
• A poltergeist that haunts printing works.
Labels: India

Definition 10:
• A lawyer's assistant.
Labels: Australia, Ireland, UK

Definition 11:
• A dust devil.

Definition 12:
• A barren, unproductive and unused area.
Example: devil strip
Labels: dialectal, in-compounds

Definition 13:
• A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
Labels: cooking, food, lifestyle

Definition 14:
• A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc., as used in the production of mungo or shoddy.

Definition 15:
• A Tasmanian devil.

Definition 16:
• An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.
Labels: cycling, hobbies, lifestyle, sports, slang

Definition 17:
• Ellipsis of devil seam ("the seam between garboard strake and the keel, on wooden boats").
Labels: nautical, transport, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛvəl/

Definition 1:
• To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.

Definition 2:
• To annoy or bother.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: bedevil, aggravate, annoy, nettle, rankle, ruffle, sting, burn someone's ass, antagonize, bother, disgruntle, botherate, bug, get, grate, burn up, acerbate, cheese off, devil, exasperate, frustrate, get up, grotch, hack off, hassle, irk, irritate, jazz, molest, mommick, nark, nerve, pee off, peeve, peeve off, persecute, pique, piss off, provoke, rile, rile up, roil, storm, test someone's patience, tick off, trouble, try one's patience, vex, wind up, Idioms:, boil someone's piss, chap someone's hide, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get under someone's skin, give someone the shits, grind one's gears, harsh one's mellow, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruffle someone's feathers, tee off, torque off

Definition 3:
• To work as a 'devil'; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
Labels: intransitive

Definition 4:
• To ghostwrite; to author while working as a 'devil'.

Definition 5:
• To prepare (food) with spices, making it spicy

Definition 6:
• To prepare (food) with spices, making it spicy:
• To finely grind (cooked ham or other meat) with spices and condiments.

Definition 7:
• To prepare (food) with spices, making it spicy:
• To prepare (shelled halved boiled eggs, as a sidedish) by removing the yolks, adding condiments and spices to them, and placing that mixture back into (the halved eggs' whites) to be served.
Example: She's going to devil four dozen eggs for the picnic.

Definition 8:
• To shred fabric into its fibres for recycling, as in the production of mungo or shoddy.

Source and attribution
Wiktionary contributors, via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Derived from Wiktionary; CC BY-SA and GFDL terms apply. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/devil