استفسد

opposite of اِسْتَصْلَحَ. (S, O, L, K.) [Hence, He regarded, or esteemed, a thing, or man, as bad, evil, corrupt, unsound, wrong, wrongful, improper, unrighteous, wicked, vitious, depraved, or dishonest; &c.: see 1.

And] He wished, or desired, [a thing, or man,] to be bad, evil, corrupt, &c. (KL.)

[And He sought to render bad, evil, corrupt, &c.

And hence, He treated in such a manner as to render disaffected, or rebellious.] One says, الأَمِيرُ يَسْتَفْسِدُ رَعِيَّتَهُ [The prince, or governor, treats his subjects in such a manner as to render them disaffected, or rebel-lious]. (A.) And استفسدالسُّلْطَانُ قَايءِدَهُ The Sultán provoked the leader of his forces to rebel-lion by his evil conduct to him. (L.)

[And He sought to act in a bad, an evil, or a corrupt, manner; to act ill, corruptly, wrongly, wrongfully, improperly, unrighteously, or dishonestly.] One says, استفسد فُلَانٌ إِلَى فُلَانٍ [Such a one sought to act in a bad, an evil, or a corrupt, manner, or to act ill, &c., to such a one]. (M.)

[And He sought discord, or dissension.

And It (an event) happened in a bad, or an evil, manner.]