Definitions for Harm
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HARMnoun

   Etymology: hearm, Saxon.

   1. Injury; crime; wickedness.2. Mischief; detriment; hurt.

   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.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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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1. harm

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2. HARM

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Ill Health
   • Injure

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

Anagrams for Harm »

1. mahr

How to pronounce Harm?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Harm in sign language?

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. Jordan Somers:

   He is not responsible for any actions that the U.S. government has taken. Please understand that we had no prior knowledge of the rescue attempt for Luke, and we mean no harm to anyone.

2. Andrew Rosenberg:

   It's encouraging that this wasn't a sample of all affluent, white men, because that suggests you may be able to try it with a broader population of patients, it's also encouraging there doesn't appear to be a major signal of harm for the patients and it didn't create more work for the doctors and nurses.

3. Saint John Chrysostom:

   No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

4. Mary Sylla:

   The position of the National Harm Reduction Coalition is that criminalization of drugs has never worked to reduce drug use or addiction. It’s the opposite. Criminalization is the opposite of harm reduction.

5. Carl Tobias:

   There will be the issues of showing that the social media content was the cause of the harm that befell the children, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t file these lawsuits.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Harm
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Harm
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Harm
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Harm
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Harm
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Harm
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html