Synonyms for harm
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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

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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. Omar Mushaweh:

   The West describes the Brotherhood group as fundamentalist and religious, and some parties want to put them in the category of terrorism, the fact is that the Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate Islamist movement that accepts political pluralism and receives great harm from terrorist movements. It is an anti-terrorist movement of all kinds, including against the state terrorism by Bashar al-Assad.

2. David Levine:

   Already American businesses are being hurt by climate-related extreme weather and changing weather patterns, the damage includes supply chain disruptions, harm to facilities, and increased energy and employee health costs.

3. Former President Bill Clinton:

   You've got to decide when you do this work whether it will do more good than harm if someone helps you from another country.

4. Joe Biden:

   People around the world no longer need to fear the vicious and determined killer. The United States continues to demonstrate our resolve and our capacity to defend the American people against those who seek to do us harm.

5. Hua Chunying:

   As long as foreign companies operating in China respect Chinese law, don't harm its national security or the interests of consumers, then China will protect their legitimate rights.