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harm

noun

1 the voltage is not sufficient to cause harm:

injury, hurt, pain, suffering, distress, anguish, trauma, torment, grief;

damage, impairment, destruction, loss, ruin, defacement, defilement, mischief.

▷antonyms benefit.

2 I can't see any harm in it:

evil, badness, wrong, mischief, wrongdoing, immorality, ill, wickedness, vice, iniquity, sin, sinfulness, nefariousness.

▷antonyms good.

verb

he's never harmed anybody in his life |

this could harm his World Cup prospects:

injure, hurt, wound, maltreat, mistreat, misuse, ill-treat, ill-use, abuse, molest, inflict pain on, inflict suffering on, handle/treat roughly, do violence to, lay a finger on;

damage, spoil, mar, destroy, do mischief to, impair, deface, defile, blemish, tarnish, taint.

▷antonyms benefit; improve.

harm Oxford Dictionary of English