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Webster 1913 Edition

Harm

Harm

(härm)
,
Noun.
[OE.
harm
,
hearm
, AS.
hearm
; akin to OS.
harm
, G.
harm
grief, Icel.
harmr
, Dan.
harme
, Sw.
harm
; cf. OSlav. & Russ.
sram’
shame, Skr.
çrama
toil, fatigue.]
1.
Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
2.
That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
Syn. – Mischief; evil; loss; injury. See
Mischief
.

Harm

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Harmed
(härmd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Harming
.]
[OE.
harmen
, AS.
hearmian
. See
Harm
,
Noun.
]
To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.
Though yet he never
harmed
me.
Shakespeare
No ground of enmity between us known
Why he should mean me ill or seek to
harm
.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Harm

H`ARM

, n.
1.
Injury; hurt; damage; detriment.
Do thyself no harm. Acts.16.
He shall make amends for the harm he hath done in the holy thing. Lev.5.
2.
Moral wrong; evil; mischief; wickedness; a popular sense of the word.

H`ARM

,
Verb.
T.
To hurt; to injure; to damage; to impair soundness of body, either animal or vegetable.

Definition 2024

Harm

Harm

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Dutch

Proper noun

Harm m

  1. A male given name, Low German, derived from Herman, meaning "army man"

harm

harm

See also: Harm

English

Noun

harm ‎(countable and uncountable, plural harms)

  1. Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 13, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.
  2. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.

Usage notes

  • Adjectives often applied to "harm": bodily, physical, environmental, emotional, financial, serious, irreparable, potential, long-term, short-term, permanent, lasting, material, substantial.

Translations

Verb

harm ‎(third-person singular simple present harms, present participle harming, simple past and past participle harmed)

  1. To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

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Anagrams

Icelandic

Noun

harm

  1. indefinite accusative singular of harmur

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhaɾˠəmˠ/

Noun

harm

  1. h-prothesized form of arm

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *harmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱormo- ‎(“suffering, pain”). Compare Old Norse harmr, Old English hearm, Modern German Harm, Avestan fšarǝma, Middle Persian šarm, Modern Persian شرم ‎(šarm).

Noun

harm m

  1. harm

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɑrm

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