Synonyms for harm
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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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

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. Douglas Barrie:

   It isn't the deal we were expecting but it won't do any harm to the Rafale to have an export order under its belt. It gives France a little more breathing space.

2. Bryan King:

   This study looked only at one developmental outcome and there is no control group that would enable us to capture all of the potential harm that might have been prevented with the choice to treat depression, it is important that women have full discussions with their health care providers about the complex interplay of risks and benefits associated with depression treatment.

3. Russell Armstrong:

   Climate change is harming, and will continue to harm, Black, Indigenous, and people of color and other vulnerable communities first and worst -- disrupting their livelihoods, culture, health, and way of life, even though the economic toll of climate change, estimated between $ 300 billion and $ 500 billion globally, is on par with government subsidies for fossil fuels, calls for solutions have gone unheard.

4. Paul Shekelle:

   When I first started out 30 years ago, we put everybody to bed for a week and told them to rest their back. It turns out we were probably causing more harm than good.

5. President Obama:

   Just as we're all connected like never before, we have to work together like never before, both to seize opportunities but also meet the challenges of this information age, it's one of the great paradoxes of our time that the very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm.