noun
- physical injury or mental damage; hurt: to do him bodily harm.
- moral injury; evil; wrong.
verb (used with object)
- to do or cause harm to; injure; damage; hurt: to harm one’s reputation.
noun Military.
- a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
noun
- physical or mental injury or damage
- moral evil or wrongdoing
verb
- (tr) to injure physically, morally, or mentally
Old English hearmian “to hurt” (see harm (n.)). It has ousted Old English skeþþan “scathe” in all but a few senses. Related: Harmed; harming.
Old English hearm “hurt, evil, grief, pain, insult,” from Proto-Germanic *harmaz (cf. Old Saxon harm, Old Norse harmr, Old Frisian herm “insult; pain,” Old High German harm, German Harm “grief, sorrow, harm”), from PIE *kormo- “pain.”
see do one wrong (harm); out of harm’s way.