Meaning of HARM
| Pronunciation: | | hârm
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | damage, damage, hurt, hurt, impairment, injury, scathe, trauma |
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| | 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 | |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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