harm

physical or mental damage injury

The first known use: before the 12th century

Word Structure

Sentence Examples

They threatened him with bodily harm.

The scandal has done irreparable harm to his reputation.

She'll do anything to protect her children from harm.

They have suffered serious physical harm.

These new regulations could cause lasting harm to small businesses.

He would never intentionally harm his children.

The scandal has seriously harmed his reputation.

Related Words

Sound the same but are spelled differently.

abuse	damage	disservice
impairment	loss	mischief

Collocations

The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance.

harm	self-harm	self-harm
actual bodily harm	grievous bodily harm	not harm/hurt a fly
mean (somebody) no harm	not mean (somebody) any harm	not harm/touch a hair of somebody’s head

Neighborhood

Rhymes

arm

farm

Onset Friends

False Friends

~~warm~~

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