In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
damage, harm, hurt, scathe
(noun) the act of damaging something or someone
damage, harm, impairment
(noun) the occurrence of a change for the worse
injury, hurt, harm, trauma
(noun) any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
harm
(verb) cause or do harm to; “These pills won’t harm your system”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
harm (countable and uncountable, plural harms)
physical injury; hurt; damage
emotional or figurative hurt
detriment; misfortune.
That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
• Adjectives often applied to "harm": bodily, physical, environmental, emotional, financial, serious, irreparable, potential, long-term, short-term, permanent, lasting, material, substantial.
harm (third-person singular simple present harms, present participle harming, simple past and past participle harmed)
To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.
• Hmar, mahr
Source: Wiktionary
Harm, n. Etym: [OE.harm, hearm, AS.hearm; akin to OS. harm, G. harm grief, Icel. harmr, Dan. harme, Sw. harm; cf. OSlav. & Russ. sram' shame, Skr. crama toil, fatigue.]
1. Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
2. That which causes injury, damage, or loss. We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms. Shak.
Syn.
– Mischief; evil; loss; injury. See Mischief.
Harm, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Harming.] Etym: [OE. harmen, AS. hearmian. See Harm, n.]
Definition: To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong. Though yet he never harmed me. Shak. No ground of enmity between us known Why he should mean me ill or seek to harm. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.