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Harm

Harm Meaning & Definition
Harm Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Harm?

[n] the act of damaging something or someone
[n] the occurrence of a change for the worse
[n] any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
[v] cause or do harm to

Synonyms | Synonyms for Harm: damage | damage | hurt | hurt | impairment | injury | scathe | trauma

Related Terms | Find terms related to Harm: abomination | abuse | afflict | affliction | aggravate | aggrieve | atrocity | bad | badness | bane | banefulness | bankruptcy | befoul | befoulment | bewitch | blemish | blight | bother | breakage | breakdown | bugbear | burden | calamity | collapse | condemn | corrupt | corruption | crack-up | crippling | crucify | crushing burden | crying evil | curse | damage | death | defile | defilement | deleteriousness | deprave | despoil | despoliation | destroy | destruction | deteriorate | detriment | dilapidate | dilapidation | disablement | disaccommodate | disadvantage | discommode | disease | disoblige | disrepair | disserve | distress | do a mischief | do evil | do ill | do violence to | do wrong | do wrong by | doom | drawback | embitter | encroachment | endamage | envenom | evil | exacerbate | get into trouble | grievance | handicap | harass | havoc | hex | hobbling | hurt | hurting | ill | impair | impairment | impose upon | incapacitation | incommode | inconvenience | infect | infection | infliction | infringement | iniquity | injure | injury | inroad | irritate | jinx | liability | loss | loss of ground | maiming | make worse | maltreat | mar | mayhem | menace | mischance | mischief | misfortune | mistreat | misuse | molest | mutilation | nemesis | noxiousness | open wound | outrage | perniciousness | persecute | pest | pestilence | plague | play havoc with | play hob with | poison | pollute | pollution | prejudice | put back | put out | put to inconvenience | put to trouble | ruination | ruinousness | rum | running sore | sabotage | savage | scathe | scourge | sickening | spoil | spoiling | step backward | taint | tarnish | the worst | thorn | threaten | torment | torture | toxin | trouble | venom | vexation | violate | visitation | vitiate | weaken | weakening | wickedness | woe | worsen | wound | wreak havoc on | wrong | wrongdoing

See Also | alteration | bite | bleeding | break | bruise | bump | burn | burn | change | change of integrity | contusion | cryopathy | defacement | defloration | deformation | detriment | disfiguration | disfigurement | dislocation | distortion | electric shock | fracture | frostbite | haemorrhage | health problem | hemorrhage | hurt | ill health | impairment | injure | insect bite | intravasation | ladder | lesion | modification | pinch | pull | ravel | run | rupture | sicken | sting | strain | twist | unhealthiness | wale | weal | welt | wheal | whiplash | whiplash injury | wound | wound | wound | wounding | wrench

Harm In Webster's Dictionary

\Harm\, n. [OE. harm, hearm, AS. hearm; akin to OS. harm, G. harm grief, Icel. harmr, Dan. harme, Sw. harm; cf. OSlav. & Russ. sram' shame, Skr. crama toil, fatigue.] 1. Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune. 2. That which causes injury, damage, or loss. We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms. --Shak. Syn: Mischief; evil; loss; injury. See {Mischief}.
\Harm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Harmed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Harming}.] [OE. harmen, AS. hearmian. See {Harm}, n.] To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong. Though yet he never harmed me. --Shak. No ground of enmity between us known Why he should mean me ill or seek to harm. --Milton.

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