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

  1. injury, hurt, harm, traumanoun

    any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

  2. damage, harm, impairmentnoun

    the occurrence of a change for the worse

  3. damage, harm, hurt, scatheverb

    the act of damaging something or someone

  4. harmverb

    cause or do harm to

    "These pills won't harm your system"

Wiktionary

  1. harmnoun

    Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

  2. harmnoun

    That which causes injury, damage, or loss.

  3. harmverb

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

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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.

  2. 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

  1. 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

  1. Harmnoun

    injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune

  2. Harmnoun

    that which causes injury, damage, or loss

  3. Harmnoun

    to hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong

  4. Etymology: [OE. harmen, AS. hearmian. See Harm, n.]

Wikidata

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'harm' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4100

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'harm' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3910

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'harm' in Nouns Frequency: #1651

  4. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'harm' in Verbs Frequency: #1097

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of harm in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of harm in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of harm in a Sentence

  1. Danielle Bell:

    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.

  2. Ben Cavender:

    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.

  3. Laurence McCullough:

    There is no net clinical benefit and( a) preventable risk of biopsychosocial harm.

  4. App Association:

    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.

  5. Mandell Creighton:

    No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.

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