harm

[harm]

Harm is a deliberate injury or damage to someone or something. A playground bully is a mean kid who causes harm to other kids.

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Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

Noun
the act of damaging something or someone

Noun
the occurrence of a change for the worse

Noun
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

Verb
cause or do harm to; "These pills won''t harm your system"


n.
Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

n.
That which causes injury, damage, or loss.

n.
To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.


Harm

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.
Syn. -- Mischief; evil; loss; injury. See Mischief.

Harm

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.
No ground of enmity between us known Why he should mean me ill or seek to harm.

Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.

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Usage Examples

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.

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Other Usage Examples

Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

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