Harm: alternatives and connections

The act of altering or making different.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…

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The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion,…

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of Wind

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To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a cru…

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of Bleed

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a s…

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To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

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To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.

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The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.

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The act of deflouring; as, the defloration of a virgin.

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The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed.

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That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals…

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The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement.

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Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity.

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The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.

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The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body.

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The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

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The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose.

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Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.

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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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The state of being impaired; injury.

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A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds…

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A hurt; an injury.

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The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.

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To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as be…

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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a s…

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of Run

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The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the ruptu…

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Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal stin…

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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

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A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.

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The mark of a stripe. See Wale.

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That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it

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A pustule; a whelk.

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The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted.

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of Wind

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of Wound

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Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.

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To make sick; to disease.

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To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…

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To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…

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Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable.

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Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable.

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Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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The state of being impaired; injury.

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Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong,…

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Alt. of Scath

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Serious emotional harm caused by a distressing event.

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