4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Harm \Harm\ (h[aum]rm), noun [OE. harm, hearm, AS. hearm; akin to OS. harm, G. harm grief, Icel. harmr, Dan. harme, Sw. harm; cf. OSlav. & Russ. sram' shame, Skr. [,c]rama 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}. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Harm \Harm\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Harmed} (h[aum]rmd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Harming}.] [OE. harmen, AS. hearmian. See {Harm}, noun] 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. From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: harm noun 1: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. [syn: {injury}, {hurt}, {trauma}] 2: the occurrence of a change for the worse [syn: {damage}, {impairment}] 3: the act of damaging something or someone [syn: {damage}, {hurt}, {scathe}] verb: cause or do harm to; "These pills won't harm your system" From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 166 Moby Thesaurus words for "harm": abomination, abuse, afflict, affliction, aggravate, aggrieve, atrocity, bad, badness, bane, banefulness, bankruptcy, befoul, befoulment, bewitch, blemish, blight, bother, breakage, breakdown, bugbear, burden, calamity, collapse, condemn, corrupt, corruption, crack-up, crippling, crucify, crushing burden, crying evil, curse, damage, death, defile, defilement, deleteriousness, deprave, despoil, despoliation, destroy, destruction, deteriorate, detriment, dilapidate, dilapidation, disablement, disaccommodate, disadvantage, discommode, disease, disoblige, disrepair, disserve, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do violence to, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, drawback, embitter, encroachment, endamage, envenom, evil, exacerbate, get into trouble, grievance, handicap, harass, havoc, hex, hobbling, hurt, hurting, ill, impair, impairment, impose upon, incapacitation, incommode, inconvenience, infect, infection, infliction, infringement, iniquity, injure, injury, inroad, irritate, jinx, liability, loss, loss of ground, maiming, make worse, maltreat, mar, mayhem, menace, mischance, mischief, misfortune, mistreat, misuse, molest, mutilation, nemesis, noxiousness, open wound, outrage, perniciousness, persecute, pest, pestilence, plague, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, pollution, prejudice, put back, put out, put to inconvenience, put to trouble, ruination, ruinousness, rum, running sore, sabotage, savage, scathe, scourge, sickening, spoil, spoiling, step backward, taint, tarnish, the worst, thorn, threaten, torment, torture, toxin, trouble, venom, vexation, violate, visitation, vitiate, weaken, weakening, wickedness, woe, worsen, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong, wrongdoing

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