Harm

Definition: Harm

Harm

Noun

1. Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

2. The occurrence of a change for the worse.

3. The act of damaging something or someone.

Verb

1. Cause or do harm to.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "harm" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Literature

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HARM

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Synonyms: Harm

Deterioration

Injure, impair, labefy, damage, harm, hurt, shend, scath, scathe, spoil, mar, despoil, dilapidate, waste; overrun; ravage; pillage.

Evil

Noun: evil, ill, harm, hurt., mischief, nuisance; machinations of the devil, Pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to.

Inexpedience

Verb: be hurtful; Adjective: cause evil, produce evil, inflict evil, work evil, do evil; damnify, endamage, hurt, harm; injure; (damage); pain.

Maltreat, abuse; ill-use, ill-treat; buffet, bruise, scratch, maul; smite; (scourge); do violence, do harm, do a mischief; stab, pierce, outrage.

Do no harm, break no bones.

Malevolence

Hurt; (physical pain); annoy; injure., harm, wrong; do harm to, do an ill office to; outrage; disoblige, malign, plant a thorn in the breast.

Pain

Attraction; (motive); attractiveness, attractability; invitingness; Adjective: harm, fascination, enchantment, witchery, seduction, winning ways, amenity, amiability; winsomeness.

Crosswords: Harm

German (annoyance, disappointment, grief, sore affliction), Swedish (grudge, indignation, mortification, resentment).

See that some harm comes to him. (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood)

I mean you no harm. I am wondering, why are you here (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett)

It'll show protection against harm. (Sleepy Hollow; writing credit: Kevin Yagher)

I am sure you guys didn't mean any harm, I'm sure it was just friendly banter, I am sure you guys have dicks the size of peanuts (Notting Hill; writing credit: Richard Curtis. Starring Julia Roberts as Anna Scott and Hugh Grant as William Thacker.)

You could do great harm. (Hercules in New York; writing credit: Aubrey Wisberg)

You sheltered me from harm. (Everything I Own; performing artist: Bread)

Oh, no I never meant to do you harm (Trouble; performing artist: Coldplay)

They can only do harm (Enjoy the Silence; performing artist: Depeche Mode)

Lord I never meant to do her harm (Long Time Gone; performing artist: Dixie Chicks)

I'll keep you away from harm. (In My Arms; performing artist: Erasure)

Hard work doesn't harm anyone, but I do not want to take chances. (references; author: unknown)

The willow knows what the storm does not: The power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it. (references; author: unknown)

Harm Done (2000)

...First Do No Harm (1997)

Bodily Harm (1995)

Grievous Bodily Harm (1988)

Lucy Ann (performing artist: Harm Farm)

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Books

• And It Harm None (Circle of Three, No. 13) (reference)

• First, Do No Harm (reference)

• Foods That Harm, Foods That Heal: An A - Z Guide to Safe and Healthy Eating (reference)

• In the Forest of Harm (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Harm Reduction Communication (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• First Do No Harm (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Safe From Harm [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

• The Land of Harm and Appletrees (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Pictured is a proton beam from the brain during CT scans. Top view of proton beams entering head. Bright pink area is tumor. Beams are focused only in this area reducing harm to surrounding tissue. Credit: unknown photographer.

Closing the purse seine. This picture of early tuna purse seining operations illustrates that often dolphins and other marine mammals were caught as a byproduct of tuna fishing. Today, efforts are made to minimize the harm to marine mammal species during tuna purse seining operations. Credit: Fisheries.

The production of medflies can be realized in the laboratory by bathing medfly eggs in warm water—a process that kills the female embryos but doesn't harm the male embryos. In the pupal stage, the males canbe irradiated to render them sexually sterile. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

ALCOHOL : A Drug That Can Harm the Body. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Drugs may harm your unborn baby. : Only take drugs your doctor prescribes. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

You are sure there's no harm done? he asked. Credit: Library of Congress.

No harm in hoping. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The people have no other remedy in this, as in all other cases where they have no judge on earth, but to appeal to heaven: for the rulers, in such attempts, exercising a power the people never put into their hands, (who can never be supposed to consent that any body should rule over them for their harm) do that which they have not a right to do. (Second Treatise of Government)

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The friends from whom she had just parted, though very good sort of people, must be doing her harm.

However, there would be no harm, she thought, in asking if the game was over

The discovery was soon made, I imagine, that the new Surveyor had no great harm in him.

There will be no harm done unless you wish there should be.

I mean him no harm.

No other harm but loss of such a lord

Tappets can rattle till Jesus comes again without no harm.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Harm to healthy cells is what causes side effects. (references)

SLE causes harm to the skin, joints, kidneys, and brain. (references)

Most often, simple cysts do not cause symptoms or harm the kidney. (references)

Business

Failure to provide adequate product and parts support will cause irreparable harm to both the equipment manufacturer and its representative. (references)

Furthermore, under the Environmental Management Act, directors and employees may be held personally accountable for harm caused to people by polluting activities. (references)

The environmental law states that a company, which engages in potentially environmentally dangerous activities, must be cautious, taking necessary steps to avoid harm. It is the company that has the burden of proof regarding the risk of the activities. (references)

Children

Romania

The law does not outlaw pedophilia expressly; instead pedophiles are charged with rape, corporal harm, and sexual corruption. (references)

Chile

The SENAME reported that 9,723 cases of abuse were brought to its attention in 1998. From mid-1998 to December 1999, the SENAME brought to the courts 713 cases for child abuse, 314 for rape, 292 for sexual abuse, 79 for grave harm done to children, and 28 cases of homicide. (references)

New Zealand

In the year ending June 30, 2000, 2 children under age 15 died in assaults, down from 12 in 1997. In the past, the Government has reported that Maori children are four times as likely as non-Maori children to require hospital care for injuries resulting from deliberate harm. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bangladesh

Many journalists cite fear of possible harassment, retaliation, or physical harm as a reason to avoid sensitive stories. (references)

South Africa

In addition the Constitution bans the advocacy of hatred based on race, ethnicity, gender, or religion that constitutes incitement to cause harm. (references)

Kenya

The practice of witchcraft is understood widely to encompass attempts to harm others not only by magic, but also by conventional means such as poisons. (references)

Economic History

Azerbaijan

Nationalization of property to prevent harm to the population or damage to state interests is possible by parliamentary resolution. (references)

Costa Rica

The U.S. Government has made clear to Costa Rica its concern that Costa Rican inattention to these issues has left U.S. citizens vulnerable to harm and loss of their property. (references)

Honduras

Any project, industrial facility, or public or private activity that could cause potential contamination or harm to the environment or historical sites must be preceded by a mandatory environmental impact evaluation (EIA). (references)

Human Rights

Turkey

If delay may cause harm to a case, prosecutors may authorize a search. (references)

Czech Republic

Two of the policemen were charged with abuse of public office and inflicting bodily harm. (references)

United Arab Emirates

All trials are public, except for national security cases and those deemed by the judge likely to harm public morality. (references)

Minorities

Czech Republic

Police charged the assailants with "causing bodily harm with racial intent;" the case was ongoing at year's end. (references)

Kenya

Many members of these groups appear to believe that economic and political liberalization would be likely to harm their groups, and to favor other groups. (references)

Cameroon

Prospective economic and political liberalization is perceived widely as being likely to harm these groups, and to favor other groups, such as the large Bamileke and Anglophone ethnic-cultural groups of the west, whose members tended to be more active in private commerce and industry and have tended to support the SDF since the legalization of opposition parties. (references)

Political Economy

China

So far, none has prompted the kind of mass protest movement that erupted in Beijing in the spring of 1989. The central authorities prefer to minimize tensions through the implementation of pragmatic policies, and they recognize that moves to reduce personal and economic freedoms would harm China's long-term interests. (references)

Egypt

The May 21 conviction of civil society advocate Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim on charges including seeking to harm the reputation of the State and accepting foreign funding without government permisssion, had broad implications for freedom of expression, and had a deterrent effect on the activities of human rights organizations. (references)

Political Rights

Singapore

The belief that the Government may directly or indirectly harm the employment prospects of opposition supporters curtails opposition political activity; however, there were few allegations of such retaliation. (references)

Trade

Denmark

Exporters, however, should carefully follow importer's instructions because failure to do so can cause customs delays and extra expenses which may harm future business. (references)

Korea

Although Korea does not routinely limit the repatriation of funds, it reserves the right to do so in exceptional circumstances, such as in situations which may harm its international balance of payments, cause excessive fluctuations in interest or exchange rates, or threaten the stability of its domestic financial markets. (references)

Travel

Nigeria

In some cases, victims have been subjected to extortion and in extreme cases to bodily harm. (references)

Women

Bosnia and Herzegovina

On May 15, a Pale court convicted a man of three counts of causing bodily harm to his ex-wife. (references)

Argentina

The penalties for rape vary from 6 months to 20 years and depend on the nature of the relationship between the rapist and victim and the physical and mental harm inflicted. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

The courts and police view domestic violence as a family problem unless serious bodily harm is inflicted, or the victim lodges a complaint, in which case they may initiate criminal proceedings. (references)

Worker Rights

Zimbabwe

The Government retains the power to veto agreements that it believes would harm the economy. (references)

Qatar

No worker in a public utility, health, or security service may strike if it would harm the public or lead to property damage. (references)

Colombia

All child workers are prohibited from working at night, or performing work where there is a risk of bodily harm or exposure to excessive heat, cold, or noise. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "harm": assault occasioning actual bodily harm ♦ cause harm ♦ do harm ♦ do harm to ♦ do harm to smb. ♦ do much harm to smb. ♦ do no harm ♦ do smb. harm ♦ doing harm ♦ grievous bodily harm ♦ harm smb.'s reputation ♦ inflicting grievous bodily harm ♦ it can't do any harm ♦ small harm ♦ take harm ♦ there is no harm done ♦ there's no great harm done! ♦ would not harm a fly. Additional references.

Beginning with "harm": harm-doer, harm-to-others.

Ending with "harm": self-harm.

Afrikaans

benadeel (hurt, injure, prejudice). (various references)

Albanian

lëndoj (Harrow, hurt, injure, sting, wound), e keqe (affliction, bad, evil, hopeless, ill, pest, pestilence, wrong), dëmtoj (affect, batter, blast, blight, break, concuss, cripple, damage, damnify, deface, disorder, do harm, hurt, impair, injure, kill, make mischief, mess, nip, prejudice, scathe, spoil, vitiate, wrench), dëmtim (damnification, defacement, defect, deterioration, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, failure, hurt, impairment, injury, lesion, Mar, wound), dëm (damage, Dent, detriment, disadvantage, impairment, injury, insalubrity, lesion, maleficence, mischief, mischievousness, noxiousness, prejudice, scathe, violence), cenoj (impinge, offend, outrage, prejudice, violate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تلف (blight, bungle, burn, consume, corrode, damage, destroy, deteriorate, deterioration, go bad, go off, go to the dogs, hash, impair, mangle, molder, moulder, ravage, ruin, scourge, spoil, spoilage, spoiling, take out, total, waste away), ‏ساء (hurt, talk dirty), ‏ضرر (damage, detriment, devilry, disadvantage, hurt, injury, lesion, mal, malignancy, mis, prejudice, wrong), ‏ضر (disadvantage, hurt, impair, injure, mar), ‏خرب (blight, desolate, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, dilapidated, fallen, go to pot, gum, harry, havoc, overthrow, play havoc with, pull down, ravage, ruin, ruined, ruinous, sabotage, spoil, waste, wreck), ‏أضر (handicap), ‏أذى (disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour, hardship, hurst, injury, injustice, insult, lesion, mayhem, trauma, violence, wickedness, zenana), ‏آذى (annoy, damage, disagree, hurt, impair, injure, lacerate, make mischief, malign, offend, prejudice, prey on, reflect, smear, work mischief), ‏شوه (assassinate, blemish, color, colour, deface, defile, deform, denigrate, distort, falsify, garble, maim, mangle, mar, misrepresent, mutilate, pervert, queer, skew, slant, slur, spoil, tinker, torment, torture, twist, warp, wrench). (various references)

Bulgarian 

увреждам (damnify, injure, prejudice, waste), вредя (blast, do harm, harmed, hurt, interfere, militate), вреда (damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, hurt, ill, injury, mischief, noxiousness, prejudice, scathe, shock), ощетявам (damage, endamage, injure, prejudice), ощетен (injured), навреждам на (disserve, wrong), зло (abuse, bad, cancer, curse, disaster, evil, ill, mischief, ulcer, wrong), причинявам вреда на, пакост (damage, diablerie, injury, mischief). (various references)

Chinese 

損害 (to damage, to harm, to injure), 弊 (defeat, detriment, fraud), 害處 , 害处, 害 (calamity, evil, to cause trouble to, to do harm to), 傷害 (injure), 妨 (hinder). (various references)

Czech

ublížit (do harm, do smb. injury, hurt, injure), poškození (corruption, damage, disservice, lesion), poškodit (aggrieve, corrupt, damage, hurt, impair, injure, prejudice, scar, violate), újma (detriment, drawback, prejudice, scathe), úhona (prejudice), škoda (damage, detriment, injury, too bad). (various references)

Danish

udgøre nogen uforholsmæssig trussel om skade på havmiljøet (there being an unreasonable threat of harm to the marine environment), sikre en rimelig genoprettelse af skaden og tilstaa en passende erstatning (to ensure equitable redress for the harm and pay appropriate damages), rimelig genoprettelse af skaden (equitable redress for the harm), ret til ikke at blive udsat for psykisk belastning (right not to be subjected to mental harm), lide en direkte og saerlig skade (to suffer direct and special harm), legemsbeskadigelse (bodily harm, bodily injury). (various references)

Dutch

letsel toebrengen, kwetsen (hurt, shock, wound). (various references)

Esperanto

malutilo, malutili, lezo, lezi, kaŭzi malutilon al (hurt, injure, prejudice), kaŭzi malprofiton (hurt, injure, prejudice). (various references)

Faeroese

skala, skaði (damage, pity), løsta. (various references)

Farsi 

گزند (Detriment), زیان (Damage, Detriment, Disadvantage, Disservice, Drawback, Evil, Hurt, Ill, Loss, Scathe, Washout), ضرر (Detriment, Loss, Tort, Washout), صدمه زدن (Damnify, Mar, Maul, Nip, Offend, Scathe), صدمه (Concussion, Disservice, Hurt, Indemnity, Injury, Maim, Scathe, Shock), خسارت (Damage, Detriment, Lesion, Loss, Recompense, Scathe), اسیب (Damage, Hurt, Inconvenience, Injury, Lesion, Mar, Strain, Tort, Trauma), اذیت (Annoyance, Hindrance, Inconvenience, Mischief, Nuisance, Tease). (various references)

Finnish

haitta (detriment, disadvantage, drawback, handicap, injury, trouble), vahinko (damage, injury, loss, misadventure, misfortune), vahingoittaa (damage, do damage, hurt, injure, mar), turmella (damage, deprave, destroy, do damage, hurt, injure, mar, ruin, spoil), tehdä pahaa jollekulle (disagree, hurt). (various references)

French

préjudice, nuire. (various references)

Frisian

ôfbrek. (various references)

German

leid (affliction, agony, grief, misfortune, pain, sorrow, sorry, woe), beeinträchtigen (affect, blemish, curb, damage, detract from, dislocate, distort, disturb, impair, interfere with, reduce, restrict, spoil, to affect, vitiate, warp). (various references)

Greek 

βλάβη (damage, detriment, hurt, impairment, injury, maleficence, mischief, trauma, vitiation), βλάπτω (damage, do damage, do harm, hurt, injure, mar, vitiate). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפ�'וע (affect, blight, come across, hurt, impinge, injure, offend, prejudice, slight, strike, wound), לחבול (damage, injure, wound), ל�"זיק (damage, hurt, impair, injure, prejudice), ל�"רע (aggravate, deprave, worsen), ל�'רום רע�" ל-, ל�'רום � זק, פ�'יע�" (blow, damage, detriment, hit, hurt, impact, incidence, injury, insult, offence, shot), �"זיק (damage), רשע (evil, evildoing, iniquity, malignant, unholy, wicked, wrong), רע�" (evil, wickedness), רע (bad, evil, inferior, maleficence, noxious, repugnant, trouble, unkind, wicked, wickedness, woe, wrong), � זק (damage, detriment, indemnity, injury, loss, maleficence, noisomemess). (various references)

Hungarian

kár (damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, expense, ill, impairment, injury, loss, mischief, mischievousness, nuisance, pity, toll, tort), baj (bane, bother, complaint, discomfort, grief, malady, matter, misadventure, mischief, mischievousness, misery, misfortune, need, pits, predicament, trouble, woe), sérelem (damnification, detriment, gravamen, grievance, injury, lesion, mortification, offence, prejudice, tort, wrong), bántalom (complaint, ulcer), ártalom (hurtfulness, maleficence). (various references)

Indonesian

mudarat (disadvantage, injury, to fail, to miscarry), merugikan (adverse, inflict a financial loss), membejati (damage), kerugian (detriment, financial loss, loss), kejahatan (banditry, crime, criminality, evil). (various references)

Italian

nuocere (damage, do harm, injure, wrong). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

障り (bad effect, hindrance, obstacle, sickness), 賊害 (destruction at the hands of rebels, killing), 禍害 (evil, mischief), 害悪 (evil, injury), 害�' (injury, mischief, poison, virus), 害 (damage, evil influence, injury), 仇 (enemy, enmity, evil, feud, foe, grudge, invasion, revenge, ruin), 危害　 (danger, injury), 危害 (danger, injury), 不都合 (impropriety, inconvenience, inexpedience, trouble, wrongdoing). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぞくがい (destruction at the hands of rebels, killing), がいどく (injury, mischief, poison, virus), がいあく (evil, injury), がい (cap, congratulatory feeling, cover, criminal investigation, damage, evil influence, hundred quintillion, hundred trillion, injury, lid, meaning of a picture, obstinacy, scythe, self-will, suitability, victory song), きがい (danger, injury, steepness of a mountain, strong spirit), さわり (bad effect, feel, hindrance, impression, most impressive passage, obstacle, punch line, sickness, touch), ふつ�"う (impropriety, inconvenience, inexpedience, trouble, wrongdoing), かたき (enemy, enmity, evil, feud, foe, grudge, invasion, revenge, rival, ruin), かがい (assault, damaging, evil, extracurricular, heavy taxation, mischief, numerically inferior force, perigone, prostitution quarter, red-light district, small military force, taxation, violence), あた (enemy, enmity, evil, feud, foe, grudge, invasion, revenge, ruin), あ� (enemy, enmity, evil, feud, foe, frivolous, futile, grudge, invasion, revenge, ruin, transient, vain). (various references)

Korean 

해 (sun). (various references)

Manx

skielley (detriment, hurt, injury, mischief, scathe, wrong, wrong harm), jannoo assee da, assee (hurt, injury, mischief, trespass). (various references)

Norwegian

ulempe (disadvantage, inconvenience), ugang, skade (bruise, damage, detriment, hurt, injure, injury). (various references)

Papiamen

hùrt (hurt, wound). (various references)

Pig Latin

armhay.(various references)

Portuguese

prejudicar (bane, crack, damage, damnify, disserve, encroach, hinder, hurt, impair, inhibit, injure, jeopard, jeopardize, pocket, prejudice, prevent, queer, scathe, spoil, upset), mal (badly, bale, barely, blight, evil, hardly, hurt, ill, ill-treat, just, little, malady, scarcely, sickness, teen, teener, wrong, wrongdoing), dano (damage, damnification, detriment, hurt, impairment, injury, loss, mischief, prejudice, scathe, tort). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

mal (badly, hardly, ill). (various references)

Romanian

rãu (Amiss, atrocious, awkward, awry, bad, bad for, bad-hearted, badly, baleful, black, bum, corrupt, depraved, evil, flagitious, foul, haggish, ill, immoral, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, mischief, mischievous, miserable, naughty, perverse, rough, scoundrel, sickness, thin, unspeakable, useless, venomous, vicious, vile, wicked, wretched, wrong), dãuna (injure, wound), dezavantaja, lovi (assail, attack, batter, beat, befall, buffet, bump, catch, clap, crack, cuff, cut, dab, drive, drub, fib, flap, hammer, hit, hurt, impact, infect, injure, jar, knock, lash, lay hands on, lunge at, Pat, put, reach, seize, shock, slam, slap, smite, spank, strike, swat, swinge, switch, tap, thrust, thump, touch, whack, whip, wipe, wound, wrong), nedreptãţi (aggrieve, wrong), nedreptate (a private nuisance, breach of justice, grievance, inequity, iniquitousness, iniquity, injustice, raw deal, unfairness, wrong, wrongness), pãgubi (hurt, injure, spoil), ştirbi (break, flaw, indent), prejudiciu (damage, detriment, grievance, prejudice, wrong), vãtãmare (damage, mischief, wound), rãutate (acrimony, archness, bad, badness, cattiness, cussedness, ill nature, illness, malice, malignancy, malignity, rogue, spite, venom, wickedness, wrong), smintealã (damage, defect, Folly, hindrance, lunacy, madness, mistake, shortcoming), sminti (deceive, delude, destroy, displace, distract, hinder, spoil), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), stricãciune (corruption, damage, deterioration, injury), supãrare (affliction, anger, annoyance, bitterness, burden, care, chafe, cloud, cross, damage, Dander, fury, grief, irritation, mood, moroseness, mumps, pain, peevishness, pet, pettishness, pique, rage, Ruth, sadness, sorrow, spite, spunk, suffering, sulk, trouble, vexation), prejudicia (hurt, injure). (various references)

Russian 

ущерб (damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, injury, prejudice, scathe), вредить вред, вредить (interfere, make mischief, scathe), вред (damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, mischief, noxiousness, prejudice), зло (evil, ill, mischief, wrong), пострадать. (various references)

Scottish

pudhar, naitheas, lochd (a fault, blemish, defect, evil, mischief), dolaidh (damage, injury, loss), deireas (damage, injury), cron (blame, defect, evil, fault, mischief), coire (a cauldron, blame, boiler, cauldron, fault, guilt, kettle, kettle; corrie, pot), beud (hurt, injury, mischief), aimhleas (hurt, injury). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zlo (bad, evil, ill, misdoing, qualm, sick), povreda (encroachment, injury, trauma, violation, wound), oštetiti (blemish, damage, mar, scathe), nepravda (inequity, injustice, wrong, wrongdoing), naškoditi (do harm), štetiti (blast, damage), šteta (damage, detriment, hurt, it is a pity, mischief, pity, ravage, scathe, shame), škoditi (disagree). (various references)

Spanish

daño (bruise, damage, dynamite, eradication, hazard, hurt, injury, jeopardy, nuisance), dañar (damage, hurt, impair, jeopardy), perjudicar a, detrimento (detriment), dañar a (be detrimental to, detract from, do harm to). (various references)

Swedish

skada (blight, corrupt, corruption, crock, damage, detriment, disadvantage, disserve, hurt, ill, impair, injure, injury, insult, loss, mischief, prejudice, riddle), ont (disease, evil, ill, pain, trouble). (various references)

Turkish

hasar (average, damage, depredation, detriment, havoc, injury, mischief, scathe, spoilage, wreckage), zarar vermek (damage, do a disservice, do harm, encroach, flaw, hurt, impair, infest, injure, prejudice, scathe, scourge, shatter, spite), zarar (average, bad, cost, damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, encroachment, evil, forfeit, havoc, hurt, injury, loss, maleficence, mischief, prejudice, ravage, sacrifice, scathe, wreckage), kötülük etmek (injure), kötülük (badness, blackness, darkness, devilry, disservice, enormity, evil, iniquity, malfeasance, malice, malignity, misdeed, misdoing, perversity, spitefulness, vice, viciousness, villainy, wickedness), incitmek (aggrieve, cut, cut up, gall, hurt, hurt deeply, injure, mortify, offend, pique, scarify, scathe, scotch, sting, strain, touch, wound), felâket (affliction, bane, blight, blow, calamity, calvary, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, debacle, disaster, distress, fatality, fate, hell, hell of, helluva, misfortune, mishap, plague, scathe, scourge, tragedy, undoing). (various references)

Turkmen 

hyяanat etmek (do evil, tresspass on), hyяanat (evil, malice), zyяan, zelel, яamanlyk (damage, detriment). (various references)

Ukrainian

скорбота (affliction, calamity, dolor, dolour, woe), шкода (breakage, damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, hurt, ill, injury, loss, mischief, noxiousness, scathe), шкодити (affect, blast, wrong), лихо (adversity, affliction, bad, bale, calamity, cancer, catastrophe, curse, disaster, ill, mischief, mishap, plague, woe), потерпіти. (various references)

Vietnamese 

hại (damaging, deteriorative, noxious), thiệt hại ý muốn hại người, tai hại (baneful, calamitous, disastrous, fatal), tổn hao, điều gây tai hại. (various references)

Welsh

niweidio (damage, hurt, injure), niwed (damage, injury), drygu (hurt, injure), drwg (bad, evil, frolic, frolicsome, hurt, miserable, nasty, naughty, petulant, poor, wicked), asgen (tendency), argywedd (hurt), andwyo (ruin, spoil, undo), amharu (damage, impair, injure). (various references)

iniûria, inpune, mala, male, malefacere, malefaciendi, malefaciendum, malefacientibus, malefacientium, malefacit, malefaciunt, malefactoribus, malefecerint, malefecerunt, mali, malis, malo, malorum, malum, malumque, misfacio, noceas, noceat, nocebis, nocebit, nocebunt, nocens, nocentes, nocenti, nocere, noceret, nocet, nocetis, nocui, nocuit, noxa, noxae, renoceri, vulnero. (various references)

axtica, paityârem, tbaêshanghô. (various references)

hearmian. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "harm": harmattan, harmattans, harmed, harmer, harmers, harmful, harmfully, harmfulness, harmfulnesses, harmin, harmine, harmines, harming, harmins, harmless, harmlessly, harmlessness, harmlessnesses, harmonic, harmonica, harmonically, harmonicas, harmonicist, harmonicists, harmonics, harmonies, harmonious, harmoniously, harmoniousness, harmoniousnesses, harmonise, harmonised, harmonises, harmonising, harmonium, harmoniums, harmonization, harmonizations, harmonize, harmonized, harmonizer, harmonizers, harmonizes, harmonizing, harmony, harms. (additional references)

Words ending with "harm": becharm, charm, outcharm, tharm. (additional references)

Words containing "harm": becharmed, becharming, becharms, charmed, charmer, charmers, charmeuse, charmeuses, charming, charminger, charmingest, charmingly, charmless, charms, dharma, dharmas, dharmic, disharmonies, disharmonious, disharmonize, disharmonized, disharmonizes, disharmonizing, disharmony, enharmonic, enharmonically, inharmonic, inharmonies, inharmonious, inharmoniously, inharmoniousness, inharmoniousnesses, inharmony, neuropharmacologic, neuropharmacological, neuropharmacologies, neuropharmacologist, neuropharmacologists, neuropharmacology, nonharmonic, outcharmed, outcharming, outcharms, pharmaceutical, pharmaceutically, pharmaceuticals, pharmacies, pharmacist, pharmacists, pharmacodynamic, pharmacodynamically. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Harm" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahr, haemo, Hafr, haim, hairn, hamm, hamr, Hamra, har, hara, haram, Harb, harc, harf, harg, harim, harme, Harn, harne, haro, harr, haru, harv, harx, harz, Haym, heram, hermp, herom, herum, Hirn, hormo, hormy, hra, hram, hrn, hurm, hurn, hvar, jarm, larm, narm, rahm, yarm. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: arm, ham, mar, rah, ram.

-2 letters: ah, am, ar, ha, hm, ma.

+1 letter: charm, harem, harms, herma, ihram, march, marsh, tharm.

+2 letters: ashram, brahma, charms, chimar, chroma, dharma, dirham, drachm, graham, hammer, hamper, hareem, harems, harmed, harmer, harmin, hermae, hermai, ihrams, mahzor, marish, marshy, masher, mihrab, mohair, murrha, rhumba, shmear, thairm, tharms, thiram, warmth.

+3 letters: amphora, armhole, ashrams, becharm, brahmas, brecham, camphor, chamber, chamfer, champer, charism, charmed, charmer, chimars, chimera, chrisma, chromas, dharmas, dharmic, dirhams, drachma, drachms, grahams, hadarim, hamburg, hammers, hammier, hampers, hamster, hamular, hareems, harmers, harmful, harmine, harming, harmins, harmony, harumph, herdman, homager, humaner, humeral, humoral, hymnary, kashmir, machree, machzor, mahzors, marched, marchen, marcher, marches, markhor, marshal, marshes, mashers, matcher, menorah, mesarch, midrash, mihrabs, mishear, mohairs, monarch, morphia, murrhas, nomarch, rammish, rematch, rhabdom, rhamnus, rhizoma, rhumbas, sambhar, sambhur, schmear, shammer, shmears, smasher, teraohm, thairms, thermae, thermal, thirams, warmish, warmths.