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Noun harm has 3 senses
  1. injury, hurt, harm, trauma - any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
    --1 is a kind of ill health, unhealthiness, health problem
    --1 has particulars:
     birth trauma; blast trauma; bleeding, hemorrhage, haemorrhage; blunt trauma; bruise, contusion; bump; burn; dislocation; electric shock; fracture, break; frostbite, cryopathy; intravasation; penetrating trauma, penetrating injury; pinch; rupture; sting, bite, insect bite; strain; whiplash, whiplash injury; wale, welt, weal, wheal; wound, lesion; wrench, twist, pull
  2. damage, harm, impairment - the occurrence of a change for the worse
    --2 is a kind of change, alteration, modification
    --2 has particulars:
     detriment, hurt; distortion, deformation; run, ladder, ravel
    Derived form: verb harm1
  3. damage, harm, hurt, scathe - the act of damaging something or someone
    --3 is a kind of change of integrity
    --3 has particulars:
     impairment; defacement, disfigurement, disfiguration; wound, wounding; burn; defloration
    Derived form: verb harm1
,Verb harm has 1 sense
  1. harm - cause or do harm to; "These pills won't harm your system"
    --1 is one way to     injure, wound
    Derived forms: noun harm3, noun harm2
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s to somebody
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