Harm
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English
Noun
Harm (plural Harms)- Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
- That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
Notes
- Adjectives often applied to "harm": bodily, physical, environmental, emotional, financial, serious, irreparable, potential, long-term, short-term, permanent, lasting, material, substantial.
Verb
Harm (third-person singular simple present Harms, present participle Harming, simple past and past participle Harmed)
- To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.
Adjectives for Harm
sullen; bodily; enormous; substantial; tremendous; imminent; delicious; irreparable; incalculable; chief; outward; serious; personal.
Verbs for Harm
anticipate—; avert—; commit—; correct—; counterbalance—; forgive—; heed—; inflict —; lament—; offset—; prevent—; protect against—; rectify—; remedy—; render—; resent—; ruminate upon—; save from—; suffer—; sustain—; weigh—; —afflicts; — angers; —distresses; —pains; —threatens.
Synonyms for Harm
injury, wrong, detriment, hurt, infliction, damage, dishonor, evil, mischief, deterioration, impairment, loss, deprivation, abuse, destruction.
Antonyms for Harm
good, benefit, boon, favor, advantage, advancement, interest, boost, benefit, gain, blessing, profit.
Thesaurus
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
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)m
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