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harms

harms is the plural of harm.

harms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of harm.

Meaning of harm

Noun

harm (countable and uncountable, plural harms)

  1. Physical injury; hurt; damage.
    • No harm came to my possessions.
  2. Emotional or figurative hurt.
    • Although not physically injured in the car accident, she received some psychological harm.
  3. Detriment; misfortune.
    • I wish him no harm.
  4. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
    • We, ignorant of ourselves, / Beg often our own harms.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

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Proper noun capitalized: Harms

Harms (plural Harmses)

  1. A surname.

Forms of harms

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Phrases with harms

Questions about harms

What does harms mean?
Harms means a surname.
What is harms the plural of?
Harms is the plural of harm.
What part of speech is harms?
Harms is a proper noun.

Words near harms in the dictionary

  1. harmosts
  2. harmosty
  3. harmotome
  4. harmotomes
  5. harmproof
  6. harms
  7. harms a fly
  8. harms a hair on someone's head
  9. Harmsen
  10. Harmsens
  11. Harmses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: harms (page history and authors); Harms (page history and authors); harm (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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