What does harm mean?
Definitions for harm
hɑrmharm
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word harm.
Princeton's WordNet
injury, hurt, harm, traumanoun
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
damage, harm, impairmentnoun
the occurrence of a change for the worse
damage, harm, hurt, scatheverb
the act of damaging something or someone
harmverb
cause or do harm to
"These pills won't harm your system"
Wiktionary
harmnoun
Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
harmnoun
That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
harmverb
To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
HARMnoun
Etymology: hearm, Saxon.
We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good. William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleopatra.They should be suffered to write on: it would keep them out of harms way, and prevent them from evil courses. Jonathan Swift.
To Harmverb
To hurt; to injure.
What sense had I of her stol’n hours or lust?
I saw’t not, thought it not, it harm’d not me. William Shakespeare, Othello.Passions ne’er could grow
To harm another, or impeach your rest. Edmund Waller.After their young are hatched, they brood them under their wings, lest the cold, and sometimes the heat, should harm them. John Ray, on the Creation.
ChatGPT
harm
Harm refers to actions, situations or occurrences causing physical, emotional or psychological injury, damage or, detriment to an individual, group or society. It pertains to any negative impact that undermines a person's well-being, health, or potential to function effectively.
Webster Dictionary
Harmnoun
injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune
Harmnoun
that which causes injury, damage, or loss
Harmnoun
to hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong
Etymology: [OE. harmen, AS. hearmian. See Harm, n.]
Wikidata
Harm
Harm is a moral and legal concept. Bernard Gert construes harms as any of the following: ⁕pain ⁕death ⁕disability ⁕loss of ability or freedom ⁕loss of pleasure Joel Feinberg gives an account of harms as setbacks to interests. He distinguishes welfare interests from ulterior interests. Hence on his view there are two kinds of harms. Welfare interests are Ulterior interests are "a person's more ultimate goals and aspirations," such as "producing good novels or works of art, solving a crucial scientific problem, achieving high political office, successfully raising a family . . .".
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Harm
härm, n. injury: moral wrong.—v.t. to injure.—adj. Harm′ful, hurtful.—adv. Harm′fully.—n. Harm′fulness.—adj. Harm′less, not injurious, innocent: unharmed.—adv. Harm′lessly.—n. Harm′lessness. [A.S. hearm; Ger. harm.]
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
HARM
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Harm is ranked #22646 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Harm surname appeared 1,133 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Harm.
94.3% or 1,069 total occurrences were White.
2.2% or 26 total occurrences were Asian.
1.5% or 18 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.5% or 17 total occurrences were of two or more races.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'harm' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4100
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'harm' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3910
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'harm' in Nouns Frequency: #1651
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'harm' in Verbs Frequency: #1097
Anagrams for harm »
mahr
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of harm in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of harm in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of harm in a Sentence
The expectation of continued fighting in the coming months combined with the current levels of civilian casualties, demonstrate the critical need for immediate steps to be taken by all parties to the conflict to prevent harm to civilians.
It would not be inconceivable that China will look at, for example, large retail brands that are operating here and saying, well maybe they should also have fire code violations too. That would create immediate harm to a lot of businesses.
There is no net clinical benefit and( a) preventable risk of biopsychosocial harm.
Allowing Qualcomm to continue abusing its (patents) and its wireless chipset monopoly any longer will irreparably harm opportunities for small businesses in the app and internet of things marketplace and would encourage further abusive behavior in (patent) licensing widely.
No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.
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- beskadig, skadeAfrikaans
- zərərAzerbaijani
- шкодаBelarusian
- danyCatalan, Valencian
- poškozeníCzech
- skadeDanish
- SchadenGerman
- βλάβη, βλάπτωGreek
- daño, dañarSpanish
- آسیبPersian
- vahinko, vahingoittaa, haittaFinnish
- mal, tort, faire du mal à, dommageFrench
- díobháil, déan díobháil, déan dochar, docharIrish
- millScottish Gaelic
- נזקHebrew
- चोटHindi
- վնաս, վնասելArmenian
- domajarIdo
- danno, male, danneggiare, feritaItalian
- បង្ករអន្តរាយKhmer
- 해Korean
- noceōLatin
- ईजाMarathi
- mudarat, keburukanMalay
- schaden, schade, beschadigenDutch
- damOccitan
- szkoda, krzywdzić, krzywdaPolish
- dano, fazer mal, machucar, afligir, ferir, malPortuguese
- dăuna, strica, vătămaRomanian
- повреждение, вред, навредить, ущерб, повредить, вредитьRussian
- povrediti, оштетити, škoditi, штета, povrijediti, повриједити, повреда, повредити, oštetiti, povreda, шкодити, štetaSerbo-Croatian
- poškodenieSlovak
- హానిTelugu
- zarar, hasar, incinme, ziyanTurkish
- шкодаUkrainian
- نقصانUrdu
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