'Harm' definitions:
Definition of 'harm'
(from WordNet)
noun
Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. [syn: injury, hurt, harm, trauma]
noun
The occurrence of a change for the worse [syn: damage, harm, impairment]
noun
verb
Cause or do harm to; "These pills won't harm your system"
Definition of 'Harm'
From: GCIDE
- Harm \Harm\ (h[aum]rm), 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. [,c]rama toil, fatigue.]
- 1. Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which causes injury, damage, or loss. [1913 Webster]
- We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms. --Shak.
- Syn: Mischief; evil; loss; injury. See Mischief. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Harm'
From: GCIDE
- Harm \Harm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harmed (h[aum]rmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Harming.] [OE. harmen, AS. hearmian. See Harm, n.] To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong. [1913 Webster]
- Though yet he never harmed me. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- No ground of enmity between us known Why he should mean me ill or seek to harm. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'harm'
From: Moby 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