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.
adjective
- not having sustained physical, moral, or mental injury
noun
- physical or mental injury or damage
- moral evil or wrongdoing
verb
- (tr) to injure physically, morally, or mentally
adj.mid-14c., from un- (1) “not” + past participle of harm. v.Old English hearmian “to hurt” (see harm (n.)). It has ousted Old English skeþþan “scathe” in all but a few senses. Related: Harmed; harming. n.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.