Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Schaden

    вредvred, уще́рбuščérb, поврежде́ниеpovreždénije

    шко́даškóda

    any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury

  2. (countable, uncountable)Emotional or figurative hurt.

    Although not physically injured in the car accident, she received some psychological harm.

  3. (countable, uncountable)Detriment; misfortune.

    I wish him no harm.

  4. (countable, uncountable)That which causes injury, damage, or loss.

Examples

550 sentences
  1. Smoking will do you a lot of harm.

    Палити дуже шкідливо для здоров’я.

    ruКурение принесёт тебе много вреда.

    deRauchen wird Ihnen sehr schaden.

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  2. What's the harm in trying to do that?

    Чим це зашкодить, якщо ми спробуємо це зробити?

    deWas kann es schaden, es zu versuchen?

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  3. I promise you that I won't do anything to harm you.

    Я обіцяю, що не робитиму нічого, щоб тебе скривдити.

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  4. I won't harm you.

    Я тобі не зашкоджу.

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  5. Some medicine does us harm.

    Деякі медикаменти нам шкодять.

    ruНекоторые медикаменты нам вредят.

    deSo manche Medizin schadet uns.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
injury; hurt; damage:
Русский
By meaning 1
injury; hurt; damage:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
injury; hurt; damage:

Origin

From Middle English harm, herm, from Old English hearm, from Proto-West Germanic *harm, fr

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”).

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Forms

plural: harms
Singularharm
Pluralharms

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Collocations

12 patterns
  • any harm
  • no harm
  • more harm than
  • harm than good
  • mean any harm
  • any harm in
  • meant no harm
  • there's any harm
  • harm in telling
  • no harm in
  • want to harm
  • more harm

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
harm — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto