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harm Definition

harm (härm)

noun

  1. hurt; injury; damage
  2. moral wrong; evil

Etymology: ME < OE hearm, akin to Ger harm < IE base *ormo-, pain, torment > MPers šarm, shame

transitive verb

to do harm to; hurt, damage, etc.

Etymology: ME harmen < OE hearmian < the n.

harm Related Forms
harm′er noun
harm Synonyms

harm

n.

  1. Injury

    hurt, infliction, impairment; see injury 1.

  2. Evil

    wickedness, outrage, foul play; see abuse 3, evil 2, wrong 2.

harm Synonyms

harm

v.

injure, hurt, wreck, cripple; see hurt 1. See syn. study at hurt.

HARM Finance Definition
Jargon used to refer to a group of boutique investment banks that were dominant in technology underwriting during the 1980s and 1990s, before many larger banks, such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, began to actively seek business in the market. The HARM group was Hambrecht & Quist Inc., Alex.Brown & Sons Inc., Robertson Stephens, and Montgomery Securities Inc. All of the four have since been sold to commercial banks, with Robertson Stephens being shut down in July 2002.
harm Usage Examples

Object

  • cooperation: Violation of these rules could gravely harm the cooperation that GENUKI is obtaining from many information providers, and hence threaten its whole future.
  • anybody: But he should not harm anybody in anticipation of harm likely to be done to him.
  • competitiveness: Business leaders have said the delay is harming British competitiveness.
  • civilian: It lays down strict laws of combat which include prohibitions against harming civilians and against destroying crops, trees and livestock.

Converse of object

  • inflict: I stayed with her, enjoying the feeling of inflicting harm upon those who had tried to invade or harm me.
  • cause: In order to cause harm they must enter the body.
  • suffer: The patient can't really get worse and can suffer no real harm.
  • minimize: Drug Aware this Australian site aims to provide information to minimize drug-related harm.
  • do: They will do more harm than good for your website.
  • prevent: From a theoretical standpoint, it makes sense to send the bill to the party who was best situated to prevent the harm.

Adjective modifier

  • bodily: I heard he'd been sent to prison for grievous bodily harm.
  • grievous: I heard he'd been sent to prison for grievous bodily harm.
  • alcohol-related: This will fund activities including educational campaigns to promote sensible drinking and programs to tackle alcohol-related harm.
  • drug-related: Are there any reasons beyond ' lack of robust data ' why so many different kinds of drug-related harm are excluded from the model?
  • serious: However, serious harm is unlikely to be caused to most people.
  • actual: Common assault, actual bodily harm, false imprisonment.

Modifies a noun

  • minimisation: It aims to provide young people with harm minimisation information around drug and alcohol use and basic drug information.
  • reduction: You will be comfortable with delivering harm reduction messages.

Noun used with modifier

  • self: Throughout the article there are quotes from young people who self harm.

Preposition: with

  • intent: At the age of sixteen he had been sentenced for rape and two counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
harm Quotes

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man,

—Hesiod   c.8c

It does no harm to throw the occasional man overboard, but it does not do much good if you are steering full speed ahead for the rocks.

—Gilmour of Craiglockhart, Ian Gilmour, Baron

I don't think it does any harm to the artist to be lonely as an artist.

—Thomas, Dylan Marlais

Serenely full, the epicure would say, 'Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today.'

—Smith, Rev Sydney

'I saw the new moon late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.'

—Ballads

En perseguirme, Mundo, Que¤   interesas? En que¤   te ofendo, cuando so¤  lo intento poner bellezas en mi entendimiento y no mi entendimiento en las bellezas? World, in hounding me, what do you gain? How can it harm you if I choose, astutely, rather to stock my mind with things of beauty, than waste its stock on every beauty's claim?

—Cruz, SorJuana Ine¤  s de la

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

—Shaw, George Bernard

It will do us no harm to retool our imaginations. AIDS is a major revolution in how writers write† Our heroes and heroines will have to change. The only thing AIDS is good for is fiction.Writers will have to thinkdifferently.

—Weldon, Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw