Dictionary entry details
• HARM (noun)
Meaning:
Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
harm; hurt; injury; trauma
Hypernyms ("harm" is a kind of...):
health problem; ill health; unhealthiness (a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "harm"):
penetrating injury; penetrating trauma (injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body)
pinch (an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed)
rupture (state of being torn or burst open)
bite; insect bite; sting (a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin)
strain (injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain)
whiplash; whiplash injury (an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident))
wale; weal; welt; wheal (a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions)
lesion; wound (any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision)
pull; twist; wrench (a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments)
intravasation (entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel)
cryopathy; frostbite (destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene)
break; fracture (breaking of hard tissue such as bone)
birth trauma (physical injury to an infant during the birth process)
blast trauma (injury caused the explosion of a bomb (especially in enclosed spaces))
bleeding; haemorrhage; hemorrhage (flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessels)
blunt trauma (injury incurred when the human body hits or is hit by a large outside object (as a car))
bruise; contusion (an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration)
bump (a lump on the body caused by a blow)
burn (an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation)
dislocation (a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column))
electric shock (trauma caused by the passage of electric current through the body (as from contact with high voltage lines or being struck by lightning); usually involves burns and abnormal heart rhythm and unconsciousness)
Meaning:
The occurrence of a change for the worse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
impairment; damage; harm
Hypernyms ("harm" is a kind of...):
alteration; change; modification (an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "harm"):
ladder; ravel; run (a row of unravelled stitches)
deformation; distortion (a change for the worse)
detriment; hurt (a damage or loss)
Meaning:
The act of damaging something or someone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
scathe; damage; harm; hurt
Hypernyms ("harm" is a kind of...):
change of integrity (the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "harm"):
impairment (damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality)
defacement; disfiguration; disfigurement (the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something)
wound; wounding (the act of inflicting a wound)
burn (damage inflicted by fire)
defloration (an act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something)
• HARM (verb)
Meaning:
Cause or do harm to
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Context example:
These pills won't harm your system
Hypernyms (to "harm" is one way to...):
injure; wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "harm"):
sicken (make sick or ill)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s to somebody
