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.
Origin of harm
1synonym study For harm
Other words for harm
Opposites for harm
Other words from harm
- harmer, noun
- self-harming, adjective
- un·harmed, adjective
- un·harm·ing, adjective
Words Nearby harm
Other definitions for HARM (2 of 2)
a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
Origin of HARM
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How to use harm in a sentence
The global AI ethics efforts under way today—of which there are dozens—aim to help everyone benefit from this technology, and to prevent it from causing harm.
AI ethics groups are repeating one of society’s classic mistakes | Amy Nordrum | September 14, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThese can include factors like transportation and shelter access, and those without the necessary money and resources have the hardest time getting out of harm’s way.
Political rhetoric may impact your hurricane preparedness | Ula Chrobak | September 11, 2020 | Popular-ScienceTwitter said it will evaluate a tweet’s potential to cause harm when determining whether it will be removed.
How Google, Facebook, and Twitter plan to handle misinformation surrounding 2020 presidential election results | Danielle Abril | September 10, 2020 | FortuneAnd, it can also make it easier for users to locate the information they’re looking for and help you get rid of underperforming content that may be doing more harm than good.
How content consolidation can help boost your rankings | George Nguyen | September 10, 2020 | Search Engine LandOnly then can the industry produce solutions that reduce harm.
What’s missing from corporate statements on racial injustice? The real cause of racism. | Amy Nordrum | September 5, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
I thought about the mother, her fear of the dark, of the harm she feared might come to her daughters.
I Tried to Warn You About Sleazy Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 | Vicky Ward | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTI meant no harm by it, but I remembered how this person talked, and I did it for my Mom and she was not into it.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness | Marlow Stern | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe official spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to harm future access to those embattled communities.
ISIS Fight Has a Spy Shortage, Intel Chair Says | Kimberly Dozier | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIs there something wrong with trans people that drives us to self-harm?
Dear Leelah, We Will Fight On For You: A Letter to a Dead Trans Teen | Parker Molloy | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTWhether or not Hippocrates ever actually said “First, do no harm,” the axiom is central to medical ethics.
Fajardo seconds the demand of the citizens of Manila that the Audiencia be suppressed, alleging that it does more harm than good.
And if he was worried about Farmer Green's cat, why didn't he dig a hole for himself at once, and get out of harm's way?
The Tale of Grandfather Mole | Arthur Scott BaileyCalkilate we should do ourselves more harm than him by shooting down his people.
These are obtained easily, whence follow the sinister reports that they give your Majesty, to the harm of the public welfare.
"I wouldn't do him any harm for the world," said Mrs. Kaye, casting down her eyes and looking very young and innocent.
Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
British Dictionary definitions for harm
/ (hɑːm) /
physical or mental injury or damage
moral evil or wrongdoing
(tr) to injure physically, morally, or mentally
Origin of harm
1Derived forms of harm
- harmer, noun
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Other Idioms and Phrases with harm
see do one wrong (harm); out of harm's way.
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