Definition of harm

"harm" in the noun sense

1. injury, hurt, harm, trauma

any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

2. damage, harm, impairment

the occurrence of a change for the worse

3. damage, harm, hurt, scathe

the act of damaging something or someone

"harm" in the verb sense

1. harm

cause or do harm to

"These pills won't harm your system"

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Quotations for harm

Whom does it harm?

Harm watch, harm catch. [ Proverb ]

Blind zeal only does harm. [ M. G. Lichtwer ]

One doth harm,
And another bears the blame. [ Proverb ]

Blind zeal can only do harm. [ Lichtwer ]

The head and feet keep warm,
The rest will take no harm. [ Proverb ]

The unspoken word never does harm. [ Kossuth ]

Reproof never does a wise man any harm. [ Proverb ]

There are eyes half defiant.
Half meek and compliant;
Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm
To bring us good or to work us harm. [ Phoebe Cary ]

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge. [ Franklin ]

One is quick to suspect where one has suffered harm before. [ Publius Syrus ]

To jest is tolerable, but to do harm by jest is insufferable. [ Proverb ]

Genius, even as it is the greatest good, is the greatest harm. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The only medicine which does women more good than harm is dress. [ Richter ]

It is the flash that murders; the poor thunder never harm'd head. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

We are slow to believe that which, if believed, would work us harm. [ Ovid ]

I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit. [ Shakespeare ]

One enemy may do us more harm than a hundred friends can do us good. [ Proverb ]

Telling the truth does good to him who hears, harm to him who speaks. [ German Proverb ]

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm. [ Colton ]

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect. [ Joubert ]

If you believe in fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good. [ Emerson ]

One adversary may do us more harm than a great many friends can do us good. [ Proverb ]

If we would not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could not harm us. [ Rochefoucauld ]

It is easy enough to forgive your enemies if you have not the means to harm them. [ Heinrich Heine ]

Here's talk of the Turk and Pope, but it is my next neighbour that does me the harm. [ Proverb ]

A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God. [ John B. Gough ]

If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

To wear a horn and not know it, will do one no more harm than to eat a fly and not see it. [ Proverb ]

It is a fearful mistake to believe that because our wishes are not accomplished they can do no harm. [ Gertrude ]

Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbor doth me more harm than either of them both. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it. [ Rochefoucauld ]

When the million applaud you, seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good! [ Colton ]

I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm. [ William Shakespeare ]

Mediocre people fear exaltation for the harm that may result from it; though it is something that can not be communicated to them. [ Mme. de Krudener ]

Does an error do harm you ask? Not always! but going wrong always does. How far we shall certainly find out at the end of the road. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A father who whipped his son for swearing and swore at him while he whipped him, did more harm by his example than good by his correction. [ Thomas Fuller ]

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm: they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination. [ La Bruyere ]

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one; a great deal may arouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure. [ Lord Greville ]

There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it. [ Plutarch ]

Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us. [ Voltaire ]

Good people do a great deal of harm in the world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Much debating goes on about the good that has been done and the harm by the free circulation of the Bible. To me this is clear: it will do harm, as it has done, if used dogmatically and fancifully; and do good, as it has done, if used didactically and feelingly. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There is no one passion which all mankind so naturally give in to as pride, nor any other passion which appears in such different disguises. It is to be found in all habits and all complexions. Is it not a question whether it does more harm or good in the world, and if there be not such a thing as what we may call a virtuous and laudable pride? [ Steele ]

Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession. [ Ruskin ]

harm in Scrabble®

The word harm is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

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harm in Words With Friends™

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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Words within the letters of harm

2 letter words in harm (5 words)

3 letter words in harm (4 words)

4 letter words in harm (1 word)

harm + 1 blank (6 words)

Words containing the sequence harm

Words with harm in them (186 words)

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Words that end with harm (6 words)

Word Growth involving harm

Shorter words in harm

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