harm

harm
    n 1: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or
         accident or fracture etc. [syn: {injury}, {hurt}, {harm},
         {trauma}]
    2: the occurrence of a change for the worse [syn: {damage},
       {harm}, {impairment}]
    3: the act of damaging something or someone [syn: {damage},
       {harm}, {hurt}, {scathe}]
    v 1: cause or do harm to; "These pills won't harm your system"
    

Harm \Harm\ (h[aum]rm), n. [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.
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   2. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
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            We, ignorant of ourselves,
            Beg often our own harms.              --Shak.

   Syn: Mischief; evil; loss; injury. See {Mischief}.
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Harm \Harm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Harmed} (h[aum]rmd); p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Harming}.] [OE. harmen, AS. hearmian. See {Harm}, n.]
   To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.
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         Though yet he never harmed me.           --Shak.
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         No ground of enmity between us known
         Why he should mean me ill or seek to harm. --Milton.
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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