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   Harm

   /härm/

   

   noun

   • 1. physical injury, especially that which is deliberately inflicted: "it's fine as long as no one is inflicting harm on anyone else" Similar injuryhurtpainsufferingdistressanguishtraumatormentgriefdamageimpairmentdestructionlossruindefacementdefilementmischiefOpposite benefit
   • ▪ material damage: "it's unlikely to do much harm to the engine"
   • ▪ actual or potential ill effect or danger: "I can't see any harm in it" Similar evilbadnesswrongmischiefwrongdoingimmoralityillwickednessviceiniquitysinsinfulnessnefariousnessOpposite good

   verb

   • 1. physically injure: "the villains didn't harm him"
   • ▪ damage the health of: "smoking when pregnant can harm your baby"
   • ▪ have an adverse effect on: "this could harm his Olympic prospects"

   Word Origin Old Englishhearm (noun), hearmian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to German Harm and Old Norse harmr ‘grief, sorrow’.

   Scrabble Points: 9

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   What is a word for 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. First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English hearm; cognate with German Harm, Old Norse harmr 1, 2. See damage. noun Military.

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   What is the difference between harm and damage?

   • harm often stresses the inflicting of pain, suffering, or loss. hurt implies inflicting a wound to the body or to the feelings. damage suggests injury that lowers value or impairs usefulness. impair suggests a making less complete or efficient by deterioration or diminution.

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   What does emotional harm mean?

   • Emotional harm was reserved for narrated events that did not entail concurrent physical harm. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of harm?

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   Learn the noun and verb meanings of harm, as well as synonyms, examples, and word history. Harm can mean physical or mental damage, injury, mischief, or hurt.

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   Harm is physical or mental injury or damage, or moral evil or wrongdoing. Learn the origin, synonyms, antonyms, and usage examples of harm from Dictionary.com.

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   Harm is physical or other injury or damage, or to hurt someone or damage something. Learn how to use harm as a noun or a verb, and see idioms and collocations with harm.

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   Harm is a noun or verb that means physical or other injury or damage, or to hurt someone or damage something. Learn more about the meaning, usage, and collocations of harm with Cambridge dictionaries.

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   Harm is a deliberate injury or damage to someone or something. A playground bully is a mean kid who causes harm to other kids. Harm is both a noun and a verb — when you inflict harm on your brother, you harm him. Physically hurting someone is only one way to harm them.

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   Harm is a noun that means physical or mental injury or damage, or moral evil or wrongdoing. It can also be a verb that means to do or cause harm to, or to hurt someone or something. See synonyms, translations, and examples of harm in different contexts and sources.

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    Harm is a noun that means hurt or damage, and a verb that means to hurt or damage. Learn how to use harm in different contexts and expressions, and see translations in other languages.