harm

Definition of harm in English English dictionary: Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune; That which causes injury, damage, or loss; To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something; {f} cause damage, injure; {i} damage, injury; evil, wickedness, badness; bad, wrong; {n} injury, mischief; {v} to hurt, injure; missile that zeroes in on and targets sources of radar waves; If you say it does no harm to do something or there is no harm in doing something, you mean that it might be worth doing, and you will not be blamed for doing it. They are not always willing to take on untrained workers, but there's no harm in asking; High aspect ratio micromachining; If someone is put in harm's way, they are caused to be in a dangerous situation. These men were never told how they'd been put in harm's way; the occurrence of a change for the worse; To harm a thing, or sometimes a person, means to damage them or make them less effective or successful than they were. a warning that the product may harm the environment = damage, ruin; To harm a person or animal means to cause them physical injury, usually on purpose. The hijackers seemed anxious not to harm anyone. = injure, hurt; High Aspect Ratio MEMS MEMS manufacturing techniques including surface micromachining; If someone or something is out of harm's way, they are in a safe place away from danger or from the possibility of being damaged. For parents, it is an easy way of keeping their children entertained, or simply out of harm's way; cause or do harm to; "These pills won't harm your system"; high-speed antiradiation missile; A male given name, Low German, derived from Herman, meaning "army man"; the act of damaging something or someone; An act which actually kills or injures wildlife Such acts may include significant habitat modification or degradation when it actually kills or injures wildlife by significantly impairing essential behavioral patterns including breeding, feeding, or sheltering; (High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile) -- A high speed missile that seeks out radar stations HDD - Head-Down Display HDU - Hose-Drum Unit HF - High Frequency (3-30 MHz) HIRSS - Helicopter Infra-Red Suppression System HMMWV - High-Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle HOT - Haut subsonique Optiquement Téléguidé tiré d'un Tube HOTAS - Hands On Throttle And Stick HOTCC - Hands On Throttle, Collective and Cyclic hp - horsepower hr - hour(s) HUD - Head-Up Display HUDWAC - Head-Up Display Weapon Aiming Computer HUDWASS - Head-Up Display Weapon Aiming SubSystem; In the definition of "take" in the Endangered Species Act, harm means an act which actually kills or injures wildlife Such act may include significant habitat modification or degradation where it actually kills or injures wildlife by significantly impairing essential behavioral patterns, including breeding, feeding, or sheltering; Harm is physical injury to a person or an animal which is usually caused on purpose. All dogs are capable of doing harm to human beings; If you say that someone or something will come to no harm or that no harm will come to them, you mean that they will not be hurt or damaged in any way. There is always a lifeguard to ensure that no one comes to any harm; US-built AGM 88A high-speed antiradiation missile used against air defenses; That which adversely affects the interests or welfare of an individual or a group This covers: Physical harm, discomfort, anxiety, pain, psychological disturbance and includes social disadvantage (e g ostracism) This can be very difficult to judge and sometimes harm may be experienced as a result of the research, but some time later (eg bad publicity) which renders informed consent problematical; a problem in the status quo constituing a need for a change; High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile; Defined in regulations implementing the ESA as an act "which actually kills or injures" listed wildlife Harm may include "significant habitat modifications or degradation where it actually kills or injures wildlife by significantly impairing essential behavioral patterns including breeding, feeding, or sheltering "; Damage or detriment Within the context of the Act's exceptions to disclosure, "harm" is the term used to refer to the injury to a particular public or private interest that could occur as the result of the disclosure of certain types of information in records in the custody or under the control of a public body The harm must be specific to the context of the request The general test for harm under the Act is whether there is a reasonable expectation of harm flowing from disclosure of the specific information at issue; any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc; Harm is the damage to something which is caused by a particular course of action. To cut taxes would probably do the economy more harm than good; To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong; If you say that there is no harm done, you are telling someone not to worry about something that has happened because it has not caused any serious injury or damage. There, now, you're all right. No harm done; cause or do harm to; "These pills won't harm your system; charge; dere
harm a process: sabotage a procedure, cause a process to not work properly
harm's way: A risky position; danger: a place for the children that is out of harm's way; ships that sail into harm's way
harm's way: path of danger or injury
harm-doer: person who does damage
actual bodily harm: Hurt or injury which interferes with the health or comfort of the victim and which is more than transient or trifling
grievous bodily harm: Serious physical injury, or the fact of causing such injury
harm.: grill
harmful: of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious
Wear a hat to protect your skin from harmful sunlight.
harmfulness: The characteristic of being harmful
Once his word was pledged, he was safe: otherwise there was no limit to his capacity for wilful harmfulness.
harmless: not intended to harm; inoffensive
harmless: safe
in harm's way: At risk; in the physical or figurative path of danger
In a totalitarian state, the wrong political views easily place you in harm's way.
no harm, no foul: Encapsulation of the idea that although technically a breach of some code or law may have occurred there is no need for punishment, apology or retribution if no actual damage occurred
He parked in my space but as I was away at the time: no harm, no foul.
number needed to harm: The number, statistically, of people who are exposed to something in order that one of them experience some adverse effect thereof
numbers needed to harm: plural form of number needed to harm
out of harm's way: Out of danger; no longer in a combat situation
self-harm: The deliberate non-suicidal injuring of one's body
harmless: innocuous
harmful: {a} hurtful, mischievous, detrimental
harmfully: {a} hurtfully, injuriously, wickedly
harmless: {a} innocent, void of guilt, unhurt, safe
harmlessly: {a} innocently, without hurt
harmlessness: {n} innocence, freedom from hurt
Harmless: innocent
To harm: grieve
actual bodily harm: Actual bodily harm is a criminal offence in which someone gives another person a minor injury
come to no harm: was no hurt, was not injured
do harm: cause damage, injure
grievous bodily harm: If someone is accused of grievous bodily harm, they are accused of causing very serious physical injury to someone. The abbreviation GBH is often used. They were both found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm. serious injury caused by a criminal attack = GBH
harmed: Past tense of to harm
harmed: having had pain or loss or suffering inflicted
harmed: {s} injured, hurt, having had pain; wounded; damaged; that suffered a loss
harmer: {i} person or thing which damages
harmful: tending to cause great harm
harmful: injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas"
harmful: constituting a disadvantage
harmful: Something that is harmful has a bad effect on something else, especially on a person's health. the harmful effects of smoking It believed the affair was potentially harmful to British aviation. = damaging harmless. causing or likely to cause harm
harmful: Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous
harmful: {s} injurious, causing damage
harmful: causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking" able or likely to do harm
harmful: able or likely to do harm
harmful: contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"
harmful: causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"
harmful: {s} deleterious
harmfully: injuriously, damagingly, hurtfully
harmfully: In a harmful manner
harmfully: deleteriously
harmfully: nocuously
harmfulness: the quality of being noxious
harmfulness: the quality of being noxious destructiveness that causes harm or injury
harmfulness: {i} injuriousness, quality of being harmful
harmfulness: destructiveness that causes harm or injury
harmfulness: {i} deleteriousness
harming: present participle of harm
harmless: not causing or capable of causing harm; "harmless bacteria"; "rendered the bomb harmless"
harmless: {s} innocuous, inoffensive, not harmful; uninjured, unharmed
harmless: not threatening to life or health; not malignant; "a benign tumor is usually harmless"
harmless: Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive
harmless: not injurious to physical or mental health
harmless: Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless
harmless: If you describe someone or something as harmless, you mean that they are not important and therefore unlikely to annoy other people or cause trouble. He seemed harmless enough I would not want to deny them a harmless pleasure. + harmlessly harm·less·ly It started harmlessly enough, with a statement from the Secretary of State for Social Security
harmless: incapable of causing harm or danger
harmless: not producing any toxic effects
harmless: not threatening to life or health; not malignant; "a benign tumor is usually harmless" not causing or capable of causing harm; "harmless bacteria"; "rendered the bomb harmless" unlikely to harm or disturb anyone; "harmless old man" not producing any toxic effects
harmless: unlikely to harm or disturb anyone; "harmless old man"
harmless: Something that is harmless does not have any bad effects, especially on people's health. Industry has been working at developing harmless substitutes for these gases This experiment was harmless to the animals. = safe harmful + harmlessly harm·less·ly Another missile exploded harmlessly outside the town
harmless: inoffensive
harmlessly: in a harmless manner; "this is a harmlessly childish game"
harmlessly: safely, innocuously, in a harmless manner, without causing injury
harmlessly: in a harmless manner; "this is a harmlessly childish game
harmlessly: In a harmless manner
harmlessness: {i} quality of being harmless, innocuousness, inoffensiveness
harmlessness: The characteristic of being harmless
harmlessness: {i} noninjuriousness
harms: plural of , harm
harms: third-person singular of harm
in a way which might harm: harmfully, in a deleterious manner
mean no harm: not intending to cause harm
no harm done: nothing bad happened, did not cause a problem
out of harm's way: out of danger, out of a risky area
there's no harm in trying: it can't hurt, it can only help, it won't make things worse by trying to better them