Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Physical or psychological damage or injury.
  • noun Immoral or unjust effects.
  • transitive verb To do harm to.

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.
  • noun Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
  • noun That which causes injury, damage, or loss.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
  • noun That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
  • verb To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the occurrence of a change for the worse
  • noun any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
  • verb cause or do harm to
  • noun the act of damaging something or someone

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old English hearm.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old English hearm.

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