What does "harm" mean?
Harm: That which causes injury, damage, or loss. We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms. Shak. See Mischief.
Additional senses
- 2.To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong. Though yet he never harmed me. Shak. No ground of enmity between us known Why he should mean me ill or seek to harm. Milton.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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