Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Physical or psychological damage or injury.
- noun Immoral or unjust effects.
- transitive verb To do harm to.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To injure; damage; inflict injury upon in any way; be detrimental to.
- noun Physical or material injury; hurt; damage; detriment.
- noun Moral injury; evil; mischief; wrong; wrong-fulness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.
- noun Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
- noun That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Injury ;hurt ;damage ;detriment ;misfortune . - noun That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
- verb To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the occurrence of a change for the worse
- noun any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
- verb cause or do harm to
- noun the act of damaging something or someone
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Getting away with Murder: Whatever happened to 'above all, do no harm'? 2009
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They typically continue to maintain either that pornography does not cause harm to women (in the relevant, usually narrow, sense of ˜harm™), or they admit that pornography probably does cause some harm to women's interests, but deny that this harm is sufficiently great to offset the dangers inherent in censorship and to justify the violation of the rights of pornographers and would-be consumers.
Pornography and Censorship West, Caroline 2004
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But, Dworkin thinks, there is as yet no reliable evidence that firmly establishes that the voluntary private production or consumption of pornography by consenting adults causes this or any other sufficiently significant harm to others, in the relevant sense of ˜harm™.
Pornography and Censorship West, Caroline 2004
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Neither the expression of pornographic opinions, nor the indulging of a private taste for pornography, causes significant harm to others, in the relevant sense of ˜harm™ (i.e., crimes of physical violence or other significant wrongful rights-violations).
Pornography and Censorship West, Caroline 2004
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They should know that yelling at a woman and making her fear she was in harm is no excuse -- it is despicable and unbecoming of an elected official and a candidate for Congress.
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When you get studies that are definitive, and that show the harm is unavoidable, and show that the harm is actually caused by gay marriage (as opposed to the prohibition against gay marriage, for example, or by the parents being gay regardless of whether they get married), then we can start talking about whether the problem is serious enough for us to want to rule out gay marriage.
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The only person who actually suffers the harm is the kid.
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The only person who actually suffers the harm is thekid.
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Um. .first, that depends on what you define as harm, and second, doing harm is an accomplishment.
The Third-Party Delusion and the Need for a Mass Movement for Progressive Change 2009
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The spending taxes pay for may, in some instances, result in benefits great enough to justify that harm, but the harm is there.
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This is a form of personal violation and a kind of “legibility harm”—a degree of representation that violates the sanctity of our inner lives.
Data as Property? | Salomé Viljoen Salomé Viljoen 2022
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