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Synonyms for harm
hɑrmharm
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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.
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, wrongAntonyms:
applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
harm
Synonyms:
hurt, mischief, injury, detriment, damage, evil, wrong, misfortune, ill, mishapAntonyms:
benefit, boon, amelioration, improvement, reparation, compensation, healing, remedy
Princeton's WordNet
injury, hurt, harm, traumanoun
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
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hurt, wound, injury, distress, detriment, accidental injury, psychic trauma, impairment, suffering, trauma, damage, scathe, combat injurydamage, 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, stultificationdamage, 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, scatheharmverb
cause or do harm to
"These pills won't harm your system"
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
harmnoun
Synonyms:
injury, hurt, detriment, damage, prejudice, disadvantageharmnoun
Synonyms:
evil, mischief, wrong, criminality, wickednessharmverb
Synonyms:
injure, hurt, damage, do harm toharmverb
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#101 | price | |
#229 | terms | |
#1673 | wrong | |
#2225 | abuse | |
#2266 | damage | |
#2620 | injury | |
#3009 | evil | |
#3140 | affect | |
#3459 | disability | |
#4142 | injuries | |
#4320 | ill | |
#4950 | damages | |
#5093 | hurt | |
#5907 | suffering | |
#6159 | harm | |
#9117 | wound | |
#9538 | trauma | |
#10456 | prejudice | |
#10997 | impairment | |
#12669 | distress | |
#12746 | violate | |
#12951 | handicap | |
#14038 | misuse | |
#14164 | ruin | |
#17827 | undermine | |
#18311 | deterioration | |
#22866 | constipation | |
#24690 | mischief | |
#25560 | impair | |
#27001 | harms | |
#28024 | prostitute | |
#30619 | torts | |
#30803 | detriment | |
#31190 | misfortune | |
#33274 | slander | |
#34306 | injure | |
#34734 | pervert | |
#35532 | jeopardize | |
#38984 | harming | |
#42903 | reproach | |
#43262 | mishap | |
#65039 | persecute | |
#66795 | oppress | |
#71523 | disablement | |
#72172 | malign | |
#73765 | defame | |
#78097 | defile | |
#84156 | disparage | |
#85386 | molest | |
#107606 | deadening | |
#141077 | vilify | |
#148587 | revile | |
#151654 | ravish | |
#164852 | victimize | |
#243500 | harmfulness | |
#317019 | maltreat |
How to use harm in a sentence?
Doctors understand (that) modern medicine can both help and harm people, especially at the end of life, and they understand its limits.
We should be realistic about the extent of the problem, of course. We are talking about a small number of extremists here -- but as they can in general society, extremists in the military can cause harm disproportionate to their numbers.
Most providers probably feel that it's better for physicians to self-regulate rather than practice medicine from the seat of the legislature, the truth is there's been a lot of harm from opioids, a lot of addiction. It's undeniable that we have to yield to that and to recognize that public safety is critical.
We were late to the party ... we had to err on the side of first do no harm.
Asylum seekers are being put at serious risk of harm every day that the forced return policy continues.
Translations for harm
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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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