SYNONYMS | EXAMPLES | WORD ORIGIN noun physical injury or mental damage; hurt: to do him bodily harm.
moral injury; evil; wrong.
verb (used with object) to do or cause harm to; injure; damage; hurt: to harm one's reputation.
Origin of harm before 900; Middle English; Old English hearm; cognate with German Harm, Old Norse harmr
Related forms harm·er , noun self-harm·ing , adjective un·harmed , adjective un·harm·ing , adjective noun Military a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
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Origin of HARM H(igh-speed) A(nti) R(adiation) M(issile)
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Related Words for harms loss ,
mischief ,
sabotage ,
violence ,
damage ,
wrong ,
abuse ,
vandalism ,
disservice ,
misuse ,
impairment ,
shock ,
wreck ,
tarnish ,
ruin ,
inconvenience ,
shatter ,
cripple ,
hurt ,
impair Examples from the Web for harms Contemporary Examples of harms Hamas is a vile organization that manipulates and harms the Palestinian people instead of helping them.
But even if you blame the parties equally, or blame the Democrats more, you should lament this: It harms the United States.
Asked if such sex could harm women the same way it harms gay men, Morton thought for a moment.
Stallworth got his revenge, sneakily getting a photo taken of him with his harms around Duke.
Benzene makes people sick, shortens lives, and harms future generations.
Historical Examples of harms We'll demonstrate what we can do if he harms Inverness and Brady.
But the law does not even seek to indemnify a man from all harms .
It is so adjusted as to soak up all evidence that helps it, and shed all that harms it.
I've had new cushings put in, and my harms in goold on the back.
The harms on the cheers is the harms of the Carabas family.'
British Dictionary definitions for harms noun physical or mental injury or damage
moral evil or wrongdoing
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verb (tr) to injure physically, morally, or mentally
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Derived Forms harmer , noun Word Origin for harm Old English hearm; related to Old Norse harmr grief, Old High German harm injury, Old Slavonic sramǔ disgrace
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Word Origin and History for harms v. Old English hearmian "to hurt" (see harm (n.)). It has ousted Old English skeþþan "scathe" in all but a few senses. Related: Harmed ; harming .
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n. Old English hearm "hurt, evil, grief, pain, insult," from Proto-Germanic *harmaz (cf. Old Saxon harm , Old Norse harmr , Old Frisian herm "insult; pain," Old High German harm , German Harm "grief, sorrow, harm"), from PIE *kormo- "pain."
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Idioms and Phrases with harms see do one wrong (harm); out of harm's way.
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