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harm | American Dictionary

harm
noun[ U ]
us/hɑrm/
physical or other injury or damage:
Missing a meal once in a while won’t do you any harm.
Fortunately, she didn’t come to any harm when the car skidded.
Maybe Jim can help you – there’s no harm in asking (= no one will be annoyed and you might benefit).

harm

verb[ T ]us/hɑrm/
The tornado blew out the windows of a nearby school, but none of the children were harmed.

harmful

adjectiveus/ˈhɑrm·fəl/
This group of chemicals is known to be harmful to the environment.

harm | Business English

harm
noun[ C or U ]
uk /hɑːm/us
damage done to something:
The board failed to prove irreparable harm in its suit against the council.
The harms associated with climate change are serious and well recognized.
not do (any) harm to sb/sthThe bond offers great benefits for issuers without doing any harm to investors.
economic/environmental/financial harm
 do more harm than good
used to say that an action is not helpful and could make a situation worse:
Suspending payments on government debts would do more harm than good.
harm
verb[ T ]
uk /hɑːm/us
to damage something or make something worse:
harm the economy/environment/countryEconomists warned that such a spending pattern could not be sustained without harming the economy.
harm business/industry

Examples of harm

harm
But, apart from that, it also directly and immediately harms her by reducing her control of the purely self-regarding portion of her life.
Even if ' verb ' is taken here as a shorthand for ' argument-taker ', it may be thought that no harm is done, because prototypical argument-takers are verbs.
He found that serious injury was rare following an incident as either intervention or luck tended to prevent significant harm in the majority of cases.
From this work, a more complex picture emerges about the developmental trajectories of children harmed both early and later in life.
The magnitude of possible harm would be sufficient to trigger protections.
Ultimately, as we shall see, property owners would, indeed, be found to have a duty to the general public to protect their property from harm.
If the proposal directly harms persons without their free and informed consent, then bioethicists should agree that the proposal is to be rejected.
However, the probability of any harm from 100 mg nifedepine, compared with the placebo group, is quite high.
Moreover, harm to others might be precisely the point the draft evader wants to make.
Are the recommendations supported by the estimated benefits, harms, and costs of the intervention?
Does the maneuver, procedure, or service do more good than harm to people who fully comply with the associated recommendations or treatment?
Moreover, in both cases the harm flows from an unjustified governmental action, namely the action of enacting the r ule.
For present purposes, however, no harm is done if we set this intuition aside. 16.
On the other side of the equation is the thought that an individual can be harmed by being brought into existence.
Nevertheless, and perhaps surprisingly, the central liberty principle admits censorship of certain extraordinary types of expression which necessarily harm others.
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Collocations withharm

harm

These are words often used in combination with harm.

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actual harm
The same point can be made about a corporation's ties to the community irrespective of its actualharm to it.
considerable harm
The mere knowledge that an inspector has been appointed could cause a company very considerable harm.
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