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. Ron DeSantis:

   The amendment says, if you read it, that you have to complete your sentence. And I think most people understand you can be sentenced to jail, probation, restitution if you harm someone. You can be sentenced with a fine. People that bilk people out of money, sometimes that's an appropriate sentence. That's what the constitutional provision said.

2. Benjamin Netanyahu:

   Our rivals are investing a huge effort to harm me and the Likud, to open a gap between my party, the Likud, and (our rivals), and if we don't close this gap, there is a real danger that a left-wing government will rise to power.

3. William Tong:

   No settlement will ever come close to addressing the magnitude of suffering and harm caused by Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family, but in reaching this $ 6 billion settlement we recognized that we could not stall this process forever for victims and our sister states.

4. Anthony Harnden:

   The reason we decided to vaccinate those children with two doses is that we were looking at health benefits to the children themselves, this was a really, really strong mental health issue in that if that child gave Covid to their parent or grandparent who lived with them who is immuno-suppressed, and they ended up with harm and even death from COVID, then it was going to haunt these youngsters for the rest of their lives.

5. Lafayette Parish Sheriff Mark Garber:

   If any out-of-town agitators are watching this, if anyone's planning to enhance their techniques tomorrow or the next day, we are ready for you, we are prepared. We will not willingly give up the city. You will have to go through every resource that I have and every resource that Lafayette Police have in order to do harm to the citizens or to their property.