Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Physical or psychological injury or damage.
- n. Wrong; evil.
- v. To do harm to.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Physical or material injury; hurt; damage; detriment.
- n. Moral injury; evil; mischief; wrong; wrong-fulness.
- To injure; damage; inflict injury upon in any way; be detrimental to.
Wiktionary
- n. Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
- n. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
- v. To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
- n. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
- v. To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the occurrence of a change for the worse
- n. any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
- v. cause or do harm to
- n. the act of damaging something or someone
Etymologies
- From Old English hearm. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English hearm. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Promoted to Headline (H3) on 4/29/09: Getting away with Murder: Whatever happened to 'above all, do no harm'? yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Getting away with Murder: Whatever happened to \'above all, do no harm\'? ”
Getting away with Murder: Whatever happened to 'above all, do no harm'?
“They typically continue to maintain either that pornography does not cause harm to women (in the relevant, usually narrow, sense of ˜harm™), or they admit that pornography probably does cause some harm to women's interests, but deny that this harm is sufficiently great to offset the dangers inherent in censorship and to justify the violation of the rights of pornographers and would-be consumers.”
“Neither the expression of pornographic opinions, nor the indulging of a private taste for pornography, causes significant harm to others, in the relevant sense of ˜harm™ (i.e., crimes of physical violence or other significant wrongful rights-violations).”
“But, Dworkin thinks, there is as yet no reliable evidence that firmly establishes that the voluntary private production or consumption of pornography by consenting adults causes this or any other sufficiently significant harm to others, in the relevant sense of ˜harm™.”
“They should know that yelling at a woman and making her fear she was in harm is no excuse -- it is despicable and unbecoming of an elected official and a candidate for Congress.”
“The only person who actually suffers the harm is the kid.”
“The only person who actually suffers the harm is thekid.”
“When you get studies that are definitive, and that show the harm is unavoidable, and show that the harm is actually caused by gay marriage (as opposed to the prohibition against gay marriage, for example, or by the parents being gay regardless of whether they get married), then we can start talking about whether the problem is serious enough for us to want to rule out gay marriage.”
“Um. .first, that depends on what you define as harm, and second, doing harm is an accomplishment.”
The Third-Party Delusion and the Need for a Mass Movement for Progressive Change
“The spending taxes pay for may, in some instances, result in benefits great enough to justify that harm, but the harm is there.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘harm’.
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steffany(grade 2)
accident, agree, arrive, astronomy, attention, award, aware, balance, banner, bare, base, beach and 127 more...
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jackgrade2
accident, agree, arrive, astronomy, atlas, attention, award, aware, balance, banner, bare, base and 127 more...
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On with their heads!
Words that make other words with the addition of one letter at the beginning. The resulting words are tagged "behead".
men, his, yes, any, iota, limb, aged, laid, land, lead, read, word and 327 more...
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billfence's Words
quotidian, flux, sawbuck, horsefeathers, chalcedony, harp, no, fox, tennis, badminton, flue, charm and 186 more...
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Chainlink's Words
hat, opalescent, opal, emerald, sapphire, scythe, carnival, calliope, brilliant, awesome, feather, fantastic and 268 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Theme Prompts
There's a fiction meme (mostly on Livejournal) where writers use words as a prompt for a short story snippet. I've been collecting the words that show up on these lists as prompts for creative writ...
white, black, gray, red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet, queen, king, prince and 407 more...
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is this all there is
this is it
dillema, destruction, conundrum, proxy, spurious, usurp, divulge, vapid, lucid, malicious, ubseqious, burden and 75 more...
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them's fighting words
punch, attack, aggravate, struggle, combat, battle, hit, pelt, injure, weapons, fists, fisticuffs and 51 more...
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Verbs
to foster (growth..., smash, pledge, harm, suffer, humble - смирять, lambast - сильно ..., digest - усваиват..., infringe - наруша..., toss out - отверг..., thwart - расстраи...
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Lyrics
Mixed lyrics, students need to analyze the words and decide which ones are related to which songs
make-up, pretty, funny, walls, come down, wreck, heavy, February, valentine, regret, dance, young and 38 more...
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subdermal irritants
ointment, flummox, kinnikinnick, lozenge, blabbermouth, blurb, blurb, lollies, fizzy drink, fizzy drink, yawning, suck it and 41 more...
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rudabeckia's Words
cross, wholly, lobe, sauce, quarrel, horrid, wooly, chutney, cheery, starling, vex, woolen and 67 more...
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TT3 Lesson 34
camper, novice, s'more, treat, nightmare, weird, luck, harm, irresponsible, notice, spot, block and 6 more...
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