Synonyms of the word harm


HARMALTERATION - CHANGE - DAMAGE - HURT - IMPAIRMENT - INJURE - INJURY - MODIFICATION - SCATHE - TRAUMA - UNHEALTHINESS - WOUND

harm

  • n. physical Injury; hurt; damage.
  • n. emotional or figurative hurt.
  • n. detriment; misfortune.
  • n. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
  • v. To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

alteration

  • n. The act of altering or making different.
  • n. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

damage

  • n. Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
  • n. (slang) Cost or expense.
  • v. (transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.

hurt

  • v. (intransitive) To be painful.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
  • v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
  • adj. Wounded, physically injured.
  • adj. Pained.
  • n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
  • n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
  • n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
  • n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
  • n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
  • n. A husk.

impairment

  • n. The result of being impaired; a deterioration or weakening; a disability or handicap; an inefficient part…
  • n. (accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.

injure

  • v. (transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
  • v. (transitive) To damage or impair.
  • v. (transitive) To do injustice to.

injury

  • n. damage to the body of a human or animal.
  • n. violation of a person, their character, feelings, rights, property, or interests.
  • n. (archaic) injustice.
  • v. (obsolete) To wrong, to injure.

modification

  • n. the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified.
  • n. an alteration or adjustment to something.
  • n. a change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.
  • n. (linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language.
  • n. (linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am => 'm in…

scathe

  • n. Harm; damage; injury; hurt; misfortune.
  • v. (archaic) To injure.

trauma

  • n. Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
  • n. An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
  • n. An event that causes great distress.

unhealthiness

  • n. The state of being unhealthy.

wound

  • n. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
  • n. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
  • n. (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
  • v. (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
  • v. (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of wind.

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