English noun: harm |
1. | harm (state) any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. |
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| Synonyms | hurt, injury, trauma |
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| Broader (hypernym) | health problem, ill health, unhealthiness |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | birth trauma, bite, blast trauma, bleeding, blunt trauma, brain damage, break, bruise, bump, burn, contusion, cryopathy, dislocation, electric shock, fracture, frostbite, haemorrhage, hemorrhage, insect bite, intravasation, lesion, penetrating injury, penetrating trauma, pinch, pull, rupture, sting, strain, twist, wale, weal, welt, wheal, whiplash, whiplash injury, wound, wrench |
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2. | harm (event) the occurrence of a change for the worse |
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| Synonyms | damage, impairment |
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| Broader (hypernym) | alteration, change, modification |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | deformation, detriment, distortion, hurt, ladder, ravel, run |
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3. | harm (act) the act of damaging something or someone |
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| Synonyms | damage, hurt, scathe |
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| Broader (hypernym) | change of integrity |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | burn, defacement, defloration, disfiguration, disfigurement, impairment, wound, wounding |
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