| harm | | |
| n. (state) | 1. harm, hurt, injury, trauma | any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.. |
| ~ health problem, ill health, unhealthiness | a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain. |
| ~ brain damage | injury to the brain that impairs its functions (especially permanently); can be caused by trauma to the head, infection, hemorrhage, inadequate oxygen, genetic abnormality, etc.. |
| ~ birth trauma | physical injury to an infant during the birth process. |
| ~ blast trauma | injury caused the explosion of a bomb (especially in enclosed spaces). |
| ~ bleeding, haemorrhage, hemorrhage | the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel. |
| ~ blunt trauma | injury incurred when the human body hits or is hit by a large outside object (as a car). |
| ~ bruise, contusion | an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration. |
| ~ bump | a lump on the body caused by a blow. |
| ~ burn | an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation. |
| ~ dislocation | a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column). |
| ~ electric shock | trauma caused by the passage of electric current through the body (as from contact with high voltage lines or being struck by lightning); usually involves burns and abnormal heart rhythm and unconsciousness. |
| ~ fracture, break | breaking of hard tissue such as bone.; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall" |
| ~ cryopathy, frostbite | destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene. |
| ~ intravasation | entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel. |
| ~ penetrating injury, penetrating trauma | injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body. |
| ~ pinch | an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed. |
| ~ rupture | state of being torn or burst open. |
| ~ insect bite, bite, sting | a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin. |
| ~ strain | injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain. |
| ~ whiplash, whiplash injury | an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident). |
| ~ wale, weal, welt, wheal | a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions. |
| ~ wound, lesion | an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin). |
| ~ wrench, pull, twist | a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments.; "the wrench to his knee occurred as he fell"; "he was sidelined with a hamstring pull" |
| n. (event) | 2. damage, harm, impairment | the occurrence of a change for the worse. |
| ~ alteration, change, modification | an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another.; "the change was intended to increase sales"; "this storm is certainly a change for the worse"; "the neighborhood had undergone few modifications since his last visit years ago" |
| ~ detriment, hurt | a damage or loss. |
| ~ deformation, distortion | a change for the worse. |
| ~ ravel, ladder, run | a row of unravelled stitches.; "she got a run in her stocking" |
| n. (act) | 3. damage, harm, hurt, scathe | the act of damaging something or someone. |
| ~ change of integrity | the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something. |
| ~ impairment | damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality. |
| ~ defacement, disfiguration, disfigurement | the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something.; "the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion"; "he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape" |
| ~ wounding, wound | the act of inflicting a wound. |
| ~ burn | damage inflicted by fire. |
| ~ defloration | an act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something. |
| v. (body) | 4. harm | cause or do harm to.; "These pills won't harm your system" |
| ~ injure, wound | cause injuries or bodily harm to. |
| ~ sicken | make sick or ill.; "This kind of food sickens me" |
| injured | | |
| adj. | 1. injured | harmed.; "injured soldiers"; "injured feelings" |
| ~ broken | physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split.; "a broken mirror"; "a broken tooth"; "a broken leg"; "his neck is broken" |
| ~ damaged | harmed or injured or spoiled.; "I won't buy damaged goods"; "the storm left a wake of badly damaged buildings" |
| ~ impaired | diminished in strength, quality, or utility.; "impaired eyesight" |
| ~ battle-scarred | scarred by battle. |
| ~ black-and-blue, livid | discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin.; "beaten black and blue"; "livid bruises" |
| ~ dislocated, disjointed, separated | separated at the joint.; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated shoulder" |
| ~ eviscerate | having been disembowelled. |
| ~ hurt, wounded | suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle.; "nursing his wounded arm"; "ambulances...for the hurt men and women" |
| ~ mangled, torn, lacerate, lacerated | having edges that are jagged from injury. |
| ~ raw | having the surface exposed and painful.; "a raw wound" |
| ~ unsound | not sound financially.; "unsound banking practices" |
| fatality | | |
| n. (event) | 1. fatality, human death | a death resulting from an accident or a disaster.; "a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities" |
| ~ death, decease, expiry | the event of dying or departure from life.; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren" |
| ~ killing, violent death | an event that causes someone to die. |
| ~ fatal accident, casualty | an accident that causes someone to die. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. fatality | the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters. |
| ~ deadliness, lethality | the quality of being deadly. |
Recent comments
5 weeks 6 days ago
10 weeks 1 day ago
11 weeks 3 days ago
26 weeks 5 days ago
26 weeks 5 days ago
26 weeks 6 days ago
27 weeks 3 days ago
31 weeks 4 days ago
32 weeks 4 days ago
33 weeks 2 days ago