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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English harm, herm, from Old English hearm, from Proto-West Germanic *harm, from Proto-Germanic *harmaz (“harm; shame; pain”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /hɑɹm/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɑːm/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m
Noun[edit]
harm (countable and uncountable, plural harms)
- physical injury; hurt; damage
- No harm came to my possessions.
- You can do a lot of harm to someone if you kick them in the balls. Especially if they get revenge and bring out a bazooka and blast your head off.
- emotional or figurative hurt
- Although not physically injured in the car accident, she received some psychological harm.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
- And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.
- detriment; misfortune.
- I wish him no harm.
- That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
- We, ignorant of ourselves, / Beg often our own harms.
Usage notes[edit]
- Adjectives often applied to "harm": bodily, physical, environmental, emotional, financial, serious, irreparable, potential, long-term, short-term, permanent, lasting, material, substantial.
Translations[edit]
injury; hurt; damage
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that which causes injury, damage, or loss
Verb[edit]
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.
- 2020 December 16, Yan Ming, “Awakening Moral Conscience”, in Minghui[1]:
- Will justice and conscience of society not be harmed if people avoid the truth?
Translations[edit]
cause damage
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Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from the noun or verb harm
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Icelandic[edit]
Noun[edit]
harm
Irish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
harm
- h-prothesized form of arm
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English hearm, from Proto-West Germanic *harm.
Noun[edit]
harm (plural harms)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “harm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old Norse[edit]
Noun[edit]
harm
Old Saxon[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *harmaz.
Noun[edit]
harm m
Descendants[edit]
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