harm
physical injury or mental damage; hurt: to do him bodily harm.
moral injury; evil; wrong.
to do or cause harm to; injure; damage; hurt: to harm one's reputation.
Origin of harm
1synonym study For harm
Other words for harm
Opposites for harm
Other words from harm
- harmer, noun
- self-harming, adjective
- un·harmed, adjective
- un·harm·ing, adjective
Other definitions for HARM (2 of 2)
a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
Origin of HARM
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How to use harm in a sentence
There’s no harm in putting on a costume and adding a fashion twist to make it pop.
Leomie Anderson Teams Up With ESSENCE For Halloween | Steven Psyllos | October 30, 2020 | Essence.comI’m a survivor of harm myself, and I’ve worked with people in the anti-violence movement for many years.
What the public is getting right — and wrong — about police abolition | Fabiola Cineas | October 30, 2020 | VoxAlone, none of cytokines caused harm to infection-fighting macrophage cells.
How two immune system chemicals may trigger COVID-19’s deadly cytokine storms | Tina Hesman Saey | October 30, 2020 | Science NewsHe said that they had gotten a lot of data on the harm that this kind of misinformation could cause.
Podcast: How online misinformation murdered the truth | Anthony Green | October 29, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewFemale legislators were three and a half times more likely to receive tweets that threatened physical or reputational harm.
The Greatest Threat to Democracy Might Not Be What You Expect | Shaan Merchant | October 28, 2020 | Ozy
Harmer added the drone “looks very similar to an Iranian Mohajer-4.”
“Everything North Korean missile engineers figure out about Scuds, within three months the Iranians know about it,” Harmer said.
Harmer was the last culprit executed within the walls of the Castle.
Norfolk Annals | Charles MackieIf there was any difficulty about getting the thing into literary shape Mr Harmer would only be too happy, etc., etc.
The Exiles of Faloo | Barry PainOur friend, Mr Harmer, will laugh at me, but I am proposing to write a pamphlet—it may even be a little book.
The Exiles of Faloo | Barry PainThe Times upon this wrote twelve powerful leaders against Harmer, which at once decided the question.
Old and New London | Walter ThornburyWhen we arrived at Lichfield, Mr. Harmer determined to finish the briefs before he went on to Stafford.
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi | Joseph Grimaldi
British Dictionary definitions for harm
/ (hɑːm) /
physical or mental injury or damage
moral evil or wrongdoing
(tr) to injure physically, morally, or mentally
Origin of harm
1Derived forms of harm
- harmer, noun
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Other Idioms and Phrases with harm
see do one wrong (harm); out of harm's way.
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