harm
nounEtymology
From Middle English harm, herm, from Old English hearm, from Proto-West Germanic *harm, from Proto-Germanic *harmaz (“harm; shame; pain”). Cognate with Dutch harm (“harm”), German Harm (“harm”), Danish harme (“indignation, resentment”), Icelandic harmur (“sorrow, grief”), Swedish harm (“anger, indignation, harm”).
Definitions
Physical injury
Physical injury; hurt; damage.
- No harm came to my possessions.
- You can do a lot of harm to someone if you kick them in the teeth.
Emotional or figurative hurt.
- Although not physically injured in the car accident, she received some psychological harm.
Detriment
Detriment; misfortune.
- I wish him no harm.
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That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
- We, ignorant of ourselves, / Beg often our own harms.
To damage, hurt, or injure something, usually an inanimate object.
- Will justice and conscience of society not be harmed if people avoid the truth?
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at harm. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at harm. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at harm
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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