Synonyms for harm
hɑrmharm

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.7 / 3 votes

1. harm

   Abuse covers all unreasonable or improper use or treatment by word or act. A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect. It is possible to abuse a man without harming him, as when the criminal vituperates the judge; or to harm a man without abusing him, as when the witness tells the truth about the criminal. Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense. One may be justly reproached. To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence. To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives. "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy," Deut. xxiv, 14. Misemploy, misuse, and pervert are commonly applied to objects rather than to persons. A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms his associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, abuses every good gift of God.

   Synonyms:
   abuse, aggrieve, damage, defame, defile, disparage, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, injure, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, reproach, revile, ruin, slander, victimize, vilify, violate, vituperate, wrong

   Antonyms:
   applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 4 votes

1. harm

   Synonyms:
   hurt, mischief, injury, detriment, damage, evil, wrong, misfortune, ill, mishap

   Antonyms:
   benefit, boon, amelioration, improvement, reparation, compensation, healing, remedy

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1. injury, hurt, harm, traumanoun

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

   Synonyms:
   hurt, wound, injury, distress, detriment, accidental injury, psychic trauma, impairment, suffering, trauma, damage, scathe, combat injury

2. damage, harm, impairmentnoun

   the occurrence of a change for the worse

   Synonyms:
   equipment casualty, hurt, scathe, terms, price, legal injury, injury, disability, handicap, constipation, damage, wrong, deadening, deterioration, disablement, impairment, trauma, stultification

3. damage, harm, hurt, scatheverb

   the act of damaging something or someone

   Synonyms:
   hurt, suffering, injury, distress, detriment, price, damage, terms, legal injury, impairment, wrong, trauma, equipment casualty, scathe

4. harmverb

   cause or do harm to

   "These pills won't harm your system"

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Ill Health
   • Injure

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. harmnoun

   Synonyms:
   injury, hurt, detriment, damage, prejudice, disadvantage

2. harmnoun

   Synonyms:
   evil, mischief, wrong, criminality, wickedness

3. harmverb

   Synonyms:
   injure, hurt, damage, do harm to

4. harmverb

   Synonyms:
   maltreat, molest, abuse, ill-use, ill-treat

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1. harmnoun

   Synonyms:
   injury, damage, detriment, scath, mischief, misfortune

2. harmverb

   Synonyms:
   injure, hurt, damage, impair, scathe, mar, deface, abuse, misuse

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1. List of paraphrases for "harm":

   damage, injury, prejudice, hurt, damages, undermine, detriment, impair, harms, wrong, jeopardize, injure, evil, torts, affect, injuries, harming, harmfulness

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1. Jennifer Bonjean:

   The irony of putting someone on suicide watch when they're not suicidal is it actually causes more harm.

2. South Korea:

   Any harm or attack on such a diplomatic mission cannot be justified under any circumstances, and the government will take all appropriate measures to protect the missions and prevent any acts that disturb their wellbeing.

3. Mark Zuckerberg:

   For most of our existence, we focused on all the good that connecting people can bring. … But it’s clear now that we didn’t do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm as well. That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections, and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy.

4. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei:

   If the country and economy were not dependent on oil revenues... could the enemy harm us with sanctions ?

5. House Budget Committee:

   These cuts in the Trump budget aren't a tightening of the belt ... They are extreme to a level that is malicious, a level that is intended to do harm.