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# harm

«harm» in Mova's school dictionary: **Hurt, damage or injury to a person, animal or thing** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (harm — uncountable); verb (harm, harms, harmed, harming)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Hurt, damage or injury to a person, animal or thing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harm/#m1)

2) Verb: to hurt or damage someone or something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harm/#m2)

3) No harm in: it is not wrong or dangerous: «There's no harm in asking». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harm/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In safety and kindness lessons: do no harm — don't hurt people, animals or the environment; some substances (bleach, medicine) can harm you; too much sun harms skin; pollution harms wildlife. In stories: a villain wants to harm someone; a hero keeps them from harm. Phrases: do harm, cause harm, come to no harm, out of harm's way, no harm done, there's no harm in, harmful, harmless.

### examples

- Smoking harms your lungs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harm/#x1)
- The dog won't harm you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harm/#x2)
- Litter can harm wild animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harm/#x3)
- Keep cleaning products out of harm's way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harm/#x4)
- There's no harm in asking for help. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harm/#x5)
- No harm done — it was just a spilled drink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harm/#x6)
- The lost kitten came to no harm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harm/#x7)
- Too much sugar can harm your teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harm/#x8)
- They had done me no harm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harm/#x9)

### note

Uncountable noun: «a lot of harm», never «a harm». Adjectives: harmful (causes harm), harmless (causes no harm). Regular verb: harmed. «Harmless» does not mean you should touch it — many harmless-looking things (berries, animals) can still hurt you.

### In the corpora

- [Fakes can spread faster than they can be removed; reporting them helps and sharing them harms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/13/)
- [It was reported that AI-made books were sold online under real authors' names, harming authors and readers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/14/)
- [Goldfish must never be let go in the wild, where they can grow huge and harm native fish.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/12/)
- [Pets let go can die or become pests that harm wild animals, and rescue centres and pet shops can take unwanted pets back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs/20/)
- [Slug pellets can harm hedgehogs and birds, and the most harmful kind was banned in Britain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «harm» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harm/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.