harm in English: Hurt or damage done to a person, an animal or a thing. (noun)

Translation

Hurt or damage done to a person, an animal or a thing.

Word origin

From Old English hearm, meaning hurt, grief or damage.

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"Do harm to" something means damage it.

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"Harm" is uncountable, so it has no plural here.

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Here "harm" is a verb: to hurt someone or something.

hurt

To cause pain to someone, or to feel pain.

pain

The bad feeling in your body when you are hurt or ill.

damage

Harm done to something, so that it is broken or does not work as well as before.

danger

The chance that something bad or harmful may happen.

safe

Not in danger; not able to be hurt or harmed.

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