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Harm   /hɑrm/   Listen
noun
Harm  n.  
1.
Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
2.
That which causes injury, damage, or loss. "We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms."
Synonyms: Mischief; evil; loss; injury. See Mischief.


verb
Harm  v. t.  (past & past part. harmed; pres. part. harming)  To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong. "Though yet he never harmed me." "No ground of enmity between us known Why he should mean me ill or seek to harm."





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"Harm" Quotes from Famous Books



... what call I hev to watch ye, 'n' see that no harm comes to ye. Yer dad give me the right. You know how he hates furriners, 'n' whut he would do ef he happened to run across this furriner atter he has been drinkin'. I'm a-meddlin' because I hev told him that I am goin' to take keer o' ...
— A Mountain Europa • John Fox Jr.
... especially on their own countrymen, whom they had little expected to meet there. The latter informed them in what manner they had fallen into the hands of the strangers, whom they described as a wonderful race of beings, that had come thither for no harm, but solely to be made acquainted with the country and its inhabitants. This account was confirmed by the Spanish commander, who persuaded the Indians to return in their balsas and report what they had learned to their townsmen, requesting them at the same time to provide his vessel with refreshments, ...
— The History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William H. Prescott
... returned Mr. Chandler vaguely, for he hardly knew what to reply; "them parcels posts has done us carriers a world of harm." ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... the girl is in several ways responsible for the atmosphere. Merely in her conversation she can be of service or dis-service. It may be simply a good joke which she is telling, but if the joke misrepresents the school she will, perhaps, do lasting harm. If she is hypercritical—and there is nothing so contagious as criticism—she influences people in the direction of her thought; she sets a current of criticism in motion. A student frequently gives ...
— A Girl's Student Days and After • Jeannette Marks
... himself in laborious imitation of hair, the Greek has struck the tresses out with angular incisions, deep driven, every one in appointed place and deliberate curve, yet flowing so free under his noble hand that you cannot alter, without harm, the bending of any single ridge, nor contract, nor extend, a point of them. And if you will look back to Plate IX. you will see the difference between this sharp incision, used to express horse-hair, and the soft incision with intervening rounded ridge, ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin


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