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harm
noun as in injury, evil
Strongest matches
abuse, damage, disservice, impairment, loss, mischief, misuse, sabotage, vandalism, violence, wrong
Strong matches
detriment, hurt, ill, immorality, infliction, iniquity, marring, mischance, misfortune, noxiousness, outrage, perniciousness, prejudice, ravage, ruin, ruination, sin, sinfulness, vice, wickedness
Weak matches
verb as in injure; cause evil
Strongest matches
abuse, damage, hurt, impair, inconvenience, maim, mar, outrage, prejudice, ruin, sabotage, sap, shatter, shock, tarnish, trample, traumatize, undermine, wreck
Example Sentences
Under California’s Marine Mammal Protection Act, it is illegal to harm sea lions or collect any of their parts while dead or alive.
Like a child with a gun, their relative weakness — the performative masculinity of an insecure adolescent — should not blind us to the harm they can cause, nor assure anyone that their failure is inevitable.
The BTP said: "The more time our officers spend reviewing CCTV... the less time they have available for patrolling railway stations and trains, investigating crimes which cause the most harm."
Ian Philip's family are now calling for an external investigation into all of Ms Booth's cases, believing it may expose other cases of avoidable patient harm.
It added that it risked "inflicting significant harm on the Afghan people, including by threatening economic stability and exacerbating one of the world's worst humanitarian crises".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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