Word Finder - harm

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Physical injury; hurt; damage

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No harm came to my possessions.

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Emotional or figurative hurt

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Although not physically injured in the car accident, she received some psychological harm.

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Detriment; misfortune.

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I wish him no harm.

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That which causes injury, damage, or loss.

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To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

I promise not to harm you.

Thankfully, the boy was located before any major harm was done.

He will not let anything harm us at night.

I'm the only human they see most of the time, and I represent no harm to them.

He does not harm us!

We've never meant any harm to you.

Of course, it was possible that someone might harm her.

If she lives on in my sister's mind one way, and in mine another, what's the harm in that?

I'm ashamed that I caused so much harm to everyone.

You must also never harm another.

The chance for physical harm was too great.

Such wonderful moments they had when he was leaving and no harm could be done.

It is bad in that it allows a few to harm the many.

If his interest in her was feigned, what harm was there in playing along?

It could do serious harm to your so-called anonymity.

He had always been the enemy with the most capability to harm her, yet did the most to help her.

I've done nothing to harm you, ever!

You.re sworn never to harm one who comes in good faith.

I bear no intent to harm you.

We mean no lasting harm to humanity or to your family.

Well, and what harm is there in that? and she rose (everybody else got up too) and with a severe expression sailed back to her table in the sitting room.

They cannot come out of the picture to harm you.

Maybe there is no harm in asking it to heal me as it does everyone else.

I can't see what harm it could do.

It seems there are people in this house who do not favor you as a nishani and who may seek to harm you.

Chance forms the characters of the rulers of France, who submit to him; chance forms the character of Paul I of Russia who recognizes his government; chance contrives a plot against him which not only fails to harm him but confirms his power.

He couldn't do the chicken any more harm.

One day the Mice met to talk about the great harm that she was doing them.

If he intended her harm, he would hardly have fixed the door so it would lock from the inside.

Surely she must know he would never do anything to harm her.

On the other hand, if he wanted to harm her, he might snatch the stick from her and use it as a weapon against her.

There's no harm in a healthy curiosity.

Rest assured, I didn't send anyone to harm you.

The child may have gone willingly and there's no reason to believe the mother would harm her.

Speculation and suspicion had done enough harm already.

My men will not harm you.

Others protested against the anomalous and helpless position of the so-called king, who, if he 'could do no harm, was certainly powerless for good.

In the end Bull Run did more harm to the victors than to the conquered.

From the meridian of Garm or Harm it rises above the snowline, attaining at least 18,000 ft.

The general sense is clear, that those who consume the holy food without a clear conscience, like those who handle sacred objects with impure hands, will suffer physical harm from its contact, as if they were undergoing the ordeal of touching a holy thing.

By standing at the shoulder the rider is out of harm's way in the event of the horse kicking while he mounts.

Their usual food consists of water-plants and bark, but in cultivated districts they do much harm to crops.

Resorting to stimulants after illness, his marked excess in this respect on the occasion of his inauguration as vice-president undoubtedly did him harm with the public. Faults of personality were his great handicap. Though approachable and not without kindliness of manner, he seemed hard and inflexible; and while president, physical pain and domestic anxieties, added to the struggles of public life, combined to accentuate a naturally somewhat severe temperament.

But the divisions of Christendom testify to the harm done by undue insistence on the claims of the individual to gain scope to extend the kingdom in his own way.

Heusinger has shown that white sheep and pigs are injured by the ingestion (A) N b X N ?--,r N(A)+N of certain plants, while the pigmented individuals may eat them without harm.

If they spring from a thick root it is not to be wantonly severed, but the soil should be removed and the sucker taken off by cutting away a clean slice of the root, which will then heal and sustain no harm.

The spots are not often so numerous as to do much harm to the leaves, but where the disease is serious diseased leaves should be collected and burned.

An epiphytic fungus is not necessarily a parasite, however, as many saprophytes (moulds, &c.) germinate and develop a loose mycelium on living leaves, but only enter and destroy the tissues after the leaf has fallen; in some cases, however, these saprophytic epiphytes can do harm by intercepting light and air from the leaf (Fumago, &c.), and such cases make it difficult to draw the line between saprophytism and parasitism.

In the former case there is no later chance to remove sulphur, a minute quantity of which does great harm by leading to the formation of cementite instead of graphite and ferrite, and thus making the cast-iron castings too hard to be cut to exact shape with steel tools; in the latter case the converting or purifying processes, which are essentially oxidizing ones, though they remove the other impurities, carbon, silicon, phosphorus and manganese, are not well adapted to desulphurizing, which needs rather deoxidizing conditions, so as to cause the formation of calcium sulphide, than oxidizing ones.

Nevertheless, their harm is not completely done away with.