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harm noun & verb. [h¨»:m]
[Old English hearm = Old Frisian herm, Old Saxon, Old High German, German harm, Old Norse harmr grief, sorrow, from Germanic.]
A. noun.
Hurt, injury, damage, mischief; an instance of this. OE.
do more harm than good make matters worse (despite good intentions). do no harm do no damage; colloq. be beneficial. GRIEVOUS bodily harm. out of harm's way in safety.
E. M. Forster She had done wrong..; she only hoped that she had not done harm. D. Cusack Dora, you're too sweet to wish harm even to Hitler!
(A) sorrow, (an) affliction. Long obsolete exc. Scot. OE.
b. verb.
verb trans. Do harm to; injure, damage. OE.
B. Emecheta The people of Shavi didn't plan to harm them. J. Gathorne-Hardy Never give them anything likely to harm them.
verb intrans. Do harm or damage. ME-M17.