Antonyms for harm
hɑrmharm

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.7 / 3 votes

1. harm

   Abuse covers all unreasonable or improper use or treatment by word or act. A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect. It is possible to abuse a man without harming him, as when the criminal vituperates the judge; or to harm a man without abusing him, as when the witness tells the truth about the criminal. Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense. One may be justly reproached. To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence. To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives. "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy," Deut. xxiv, 14. Misemploy, misuse, and pervert are commonly applied to objects rather than to persons. A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms his associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, abuses every good gift of God.

   Antonyms:
   applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate

   Synonyms:
   abuse, aggrieve, damage, defame, defile, disparage, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, injure, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, reproach, revile, ruin, slander, victimize, vilify, violate, vituperate, wrong

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 4 votes

1. harm

   Antonyms:
   benefit, boon, amelioration, improvement, reparation, compensation, healing, remedy

   Synonyms:
   hurt, mischief, injury, detriment, damage, evil, wrong, misfortune, ill, mishap

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Ill Health
   • Injure

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. injury, hurt, harm, traumanoun

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

   Synonyms:
   hurt, wound, injury, distress, detriment, accidental injury, psychic trauma, impairment, suffering, trauma, damage, scathe, combat injury

2. damage, harm, impairmentnoun

   the occurrence of a change for the worse

   Synonyms:
   equipment casualty, hurt, scathe, terms, price, legal injury, injury, disability, handicap, constipation, damage, wrong, deadening, deterioration, disablement, impairment, trauma, stultification

3. damage, harm, hurt, scatheverb

   the act of damaging something or someone

   Synonyms:
   hurt, suffering, injury, distress, detriment, price, damage, terms, legal injury, impairment, wrong, trauma, equipment casualty, scathe

4. harmverb

   cause or do harm to

   "These pills won't harm your system"

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1. harmnoun

   Synonyms:
   injury, damage, detriment, scath, mischief, misfortune

2. harmverb

   Synonyms:
   injure, hurt, damage, impair, scathe, mar, deface, abuse, misuse

How to use harm in a sentence?

1. Economy Minister Peter Altmaier:

   The next few days will bring clarity, if the impression arises that there is to-ing and fro-ing, it would damage trust in politics and harm the peoples' willingness to be disciplined and to cooperate.

2. William Evanina:

   All organizations are vulnerable to insider threats from employees who may use their authorized access to facilities, personnel or information to harm their organizations - intentionally or unintentionally, the harm can range from negligence, such as failing to secure data or clicking on a spear-phishing link, to malicious activities like theft, sabotage, espionage, unauthorized disclosure of classified information or even violence.

3. Chrissy Beckles:

   Once they learn that not everyone is going to harm them and that they are safe, loved and taken care of, then dogs begin to trust, it's always a beautiful thing to witness.

4. Alexis McGill-Johnson:

   In the coming days, a 30-day comment period will allow the public to underline the harm the gag rule has wrought and emphasize why it must be ended as swiftly as possible.

5. Mike Pence:

   It was Hillary Clinton who left Americans in harm’s way in Benghazi.

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