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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Physical or psychological injury or damage.
  2. n. Wrong; evil.
  3. v. To do harm to.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Physical or material injury; hurt; damage; detriment.
  2. n. Moral injury; evil; mischief; wrong; wrong-fulness.
  3. To injure; damage; inflict injury upon in any way; be detrimental to.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
  2. n. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
  3. v. To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
  2. n. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
  3. v. To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the occurrence of a change for the worse
  2. n. any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
  3. v. cause or do harm to
  4. n. the act of damaging something or someone

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Old English hearm.

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