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Harm vs Herm - What's the difference?

harm | herm |

As nouns the difference between harm and herm

is that harm is injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune while herm is a rectangular pillar bearing a bust of Hermes, once used as a boundary marker and later as decoration.

As a verb harm

is to cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

As a proper noun Herm is

one of the the Channel Islands and part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey.

As an abbreviation herm is

abbreviation of hermaphrodite.

harm

English

(wikipedia harm)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
  • * , chapter=13
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.}}
  • That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • We, ignorant of ourselves, / Beg often our own harms .

    Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "harm": bodily, physical, environmental, emotional, financial, serious, irreparable, potential, long-term, short-term, permanent, lasting, material, substantial.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

    • Derived terms

    * do no harm * harmer * harmless * harm's way * self-harm * unharmed

    Anagrams

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    herm

    English

    (wikipedia Herm)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • one of the the Channel Islands and part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey
  • a commune in the Landes department in Aquitaine in south-western France

    • Anagrams

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