harm
IPA: hˈɑrm
noun
- Physical injury; hurt; damage.
- Emotional or figurative hurt.
- Detriment; misfortune.
- That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
verb
- To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.
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Examples of "harm" in Sentences
- Transformed genes are harmful.
- Desecreating nature is harmful.
- So is this healthful or harmful
- Is the vote harmful to the process
- The family is recovering from the harm.
- The vinyl is harmful for the environment.
- The antibodies attack the harmful viruses.
- Their depredations seriously harm the birdlife.
- The main word noxious is the harmful or injurious one.
- If the intent is to harm, then the teasing is hurtful.
- The only person who actually suffers the harm is thekid.
- The only person who actually suffers the harm is the kid.
- Um. .first, that depends on what you define as harm, and second, doing harm is an accomplishment.
- The spending taxes pay for may, in some instances, result in benefits great enough to justify that harm, but the harm is there.
- They should know that yelling at a woman and making her fear she was in harm is no excuse -- it is despicable and unbecoming of an elected official and a candidate for Congress.
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- Neither the expression of pornographic opinions, nor the indulging of a private taste for pornography, causes significant harm to others, in the relevant sense of ˜harm™ (i.e., crimes of physical violence or other significant wrongful rights-violations).
- But, Dworkin thinks, there is as yet no reliable evidence that firmly establishes that the voluntary private production or consumption of pornography by consenting adults causes this or any other sufficiently significant harm to others, in the relevant sense of ˜harm™.
- When you get studies that are definitive, and that show the harm is unavoidable, and show that the harm is actually caused by gay marriage (as opposed to the prohibition against gay marriage, for example, or by the parents being gay regardless of whether they get married), then we can start talking about whether the problem is serious enough for us to want to rule out gay marriage.
- They typically continue to maintain either that pornography does not cause harm to women (in the relevant, usually narrow, sense of ˜harm™), or they admit that pornography probably does cause some harm to women's interests, but deny that this harm is sufficiently great to offset the dangers inherent in censorship and to justify the violation of the rights of pornographers and would-be consumers.