HARM
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
Etymology
Noun
harm (countable and uncountable, plural harms)
physical injury; hurt; damage
emotional or figurative hurt
detriment; misfortune.
That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
Usage notes
• Adjectives often applied to "harm": bodily, physical, environmental, emotional, financial, serious, irreparable, potential, long-term, short-term, permanent, lasting, material, substantial.
Verb
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.
Anagrams
• 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