Definition of "harm"

harm

/hɑːm/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural harms
1. Physical injury; hurt; damage.
2. Emotional or figurative hurt.
  Quotations
  And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.
  1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
3. Detriment; misfortune.
4. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
  Quotations
  We, ignorant of ourselves, / Beg often our own harms.
  c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]
verb
third-person singular simple present harms, present participle harming, simple past and past participle harmed
1. To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.
  Quotations
  Will justice and conscience of society not be harmed if people avoid the truth?
  2020 December 16, Yan Ming, “Awakening Moral Conscience”, in Minghui‎