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Harm
| 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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