Harm

//hɑːm//

Synonyms for "harm" (238 found)

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Noun(1 words)
damage

Related words (119)

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21 entries

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Antonyms

2 entries

Synonyms

7 entries

Related terms

2 entries

derived

22 entries

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manner of

1 entries

related to

11 entries

Translations

191 translations across 78 languages.

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Afrikaans

2 entries
  • skade noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • beskadig verb (cause damage)

Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • βλάπτω verb (cause damage)

Arabic

3 entries
  • ضَرَرٌ noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • ضر verb (cause damage)
  • ضَرَّ أَضَرَّ verb (cause damage)

Armenian

2 entries
  • վնաս noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • վնասել verb (cause damage)

Asturian

1 entries
  • dañu noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • zərər noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Basque

2 entries
  • kalte noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • zauri noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • шко́да noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Bengali

1 entries
  • সদমা noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Bhojpuri

1 entries
  • नुकसान noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Bikol Central

2 entries
  • uragan noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • uragan noun (that which causes injury, damage, or loss)

Breton

1 entries
  • droug noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • вреда noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • зло noun (that which causes injury, damage, or loss)
  • пакост noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • увреждам verb (cause damage)

Catalan

3 entries
  • dany noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • mal noun (that which causes injury, damage, or loss)
  • danyar verb (cause damage)

Chamorro

1 entries
  • dañu noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 損害 /损害 noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • 損害 /损害 verb (cause damage)

Czech

1 entries
  • poškození noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Danish

2 entries
  • skade noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • skade verb (cause damage)

Dutch

3 entries
  • schade noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • beschadigen verb (cause damage)
  • schaden verb (cause damage)

Esperanto

2 entries
  • damaĝo noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • damaĝi verb (cause damage)

Estonian

1 entries
  • kahju noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Faroese

2 entries
  • skaði noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • skaða verb (cause damage)

Finnish

4 entries
  • haitta noun (that which causes injury, damage, or loss)
  • vahinko noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • vahinko noun (that which causes injury, damage, or loss)
  • vahingoittaa verb (cause damage)

French

4 entries
  • dommage noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • mal noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • tort noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • faire du mal à verb (cause damage)

Galician

3 entries
  • dano noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • facer mal verb (cause damage)
  • ferir verb (cause damage)

Georgian

3 entries
  • ვნება noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • ზარალი noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • ზიანი noun (injury; hurt; damage)

German

3 entries
  • Schaden noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • schade verb (cause damage)
  • schaden verb (cause damage)

Greek

2 entries
  • βλάβη noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • βλάπτω verb (cause damage)

Hawaiian

2 entries
  • māino noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • pōpilikia noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Hebrew

2 entries
  • נזק noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • הזיק verb (cause damage)

Hindi

2 entries
  • घाव noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • चोट noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • ártalom noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • árt verb (cause damage)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • skaði noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Ido

3 entries
  • domajo noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • nocuro noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • domajar verb (cause damage)

Irish

4 entries
  • anachain noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • dochar noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • díobháil noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • urchóid noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Italian

4 entries
  • danno noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • danno noun (that which causes injury, damage, or loss)
  • ferita noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • male noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Japanese

3 entries
  • そこなう verb (cause damage)
  • 害する verb (cause damage)
  • 痛める verb (cause damage)

Kazakh

3 entries
  • залал noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • зарар noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • зиян noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Khmer

1 entries
  • បង្ករអន្តរាយ verb (cause damage)

Korean

2 entries
  • 해 noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • 해치다 verb (cause damage)

Latin

3 entries
  • noxa noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • noxia noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • noceō verb (cause damage)

Latvian

4 entries
  • bojājums noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • ievainojums noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • kaitējums noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • bojāt verb (cause damage)

Luxembourgish

1 entries
  • Schued noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • штета noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Malay

2 entries
  • keburukan noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • mudarat noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Malayalam

1 entries
  • ഉപദ്രവം noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Maore Comorian

1 entries
  • uhodza verb (cause damage)

Marathi

1 entries
  • ईजा noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Māori

3 entries
  • whakahauā verb (cause damage)
  • whakakino verb (cause damage)
  • whakatūroro verb (cause damage)

Navajo

1 entries
  • atéʼélį́ noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Ngazidja Comorian

1 entries
  • udhuru verb (cause damage)

Occitan

1 entries
  • dam noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Old English

1 entries
  • hearm noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Ottoman Turkish

3 entries
  • زیان noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • ضرر noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • مضرت noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Persian

1 entries
  • آسیب noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Piedmontese

1 entries
  • neuse verb (cause damage)

Polish

4 entries
  • krzywda noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • szkoda noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • krzywdzić verb (cause damage)
  • uszkadzać verb (cause damage)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • dano noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • mal noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • mal noun (that which causes injury, damage, or loss)
  • afligir verb (cause damage)

Romanian

3 entries
  • dăuna verb (cause damage)
  • strica verb (cause damage)
  • vătăma verb (cause damage)

Russian

4 entries
  • вред noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • поврежде́ние noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • уще́рб noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • вреди́ть verb (cause damage)

Samoan

1 entries
  • leaga noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Sanskrit

3 entries
  • द्रुह् noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • द्रुह्यति verb (cause damage)
  • हिनस्ति verb (cause damage)

Scots

1 entries
  • skaith noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries
  • cuir cron air verb (cause damage)
  • mill verb (cause damage)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • povreda noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • šteta noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • повреда noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • штета noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Sicilian

1 entries
  • firita noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Slovak

3 entries
  • poškodenie noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • raniť verb (cause damage)
  • škodiť verb (cause damage)

Spanish

2 entries
  • daño noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • dañar verb (cause damage)

Swedish

1 entries
  • skada verb (cause damage)

Tamil

3 entries
  • கெடுதல் noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • நஷ்டம் noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • நாசம் noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Telugu

1 entries
  • హాని verb (cause damage)

Thai

2 entries
  • ความเสียหาย noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • ทำร้าย verb (cause damage)

Tocharian B

1 entries
  • karep noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Turkish

4 entries
  • hasar noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • incinme noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • zarar noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • ziyan noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Ukrainian

4 entries
  • шко́да noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • завда́ти шко́ди verb (cause damage)
  • завдава́ти шко́ди verb (cause damage)
  • нашко́дити verb (cause damage)

Venetan

1 entries
  • sbrégo noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Vietnamese

2 entries
  • hại noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • làm hại verb (cause damage)

Zazaki

4 entries
  • derb noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • zerar noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • ziyan noun (injury; hurt; damage)
  • ziyan noun (injury; hurt; damage)

Sample sentences

17 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

No harm will come to you.

Source: tatoeba (17959)

Smoking will do more harm than good.

Source: tatoeba (19932)

Smoking will do you a lot of harm.

Source: tatoeba (19948)

Smoking does you more harm than good.

Source: tatoeba (19952)

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