harm
Physical injury; hurt; damage.
Example
“No harm came to my possessions.”
Other meanings
Emotional or figurative hurt.
“Although not physically injured in the car accident, she received some psychological harm.”
Detriment; misfortune.
“I wish him no harm.”
Synonyms
- trauma
Related words
- harmer
- harmable
- harmdoing
- harmful
- harmproof
- nonharm
- harmless
- self-harm
- unharmed
- do no harm
- harm's way
- harm a hair on someone's head
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "hearm".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “harm” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.