harm
US /hɑrm/
noun, verb Target · B2 Sức khỏe
Definition
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc
Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.
Examples
Too much noise at work can harm your hearing over time.
Synonyms
- damagethe occurrence of a change for the worse
- injurecause injuries or bodily harm to
- hurtany physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc
Collocations
- Easy do no harmto perform or carry out an activity regarding no harm
- Medium cause financial harm to the clientto cause financial harm to the client, meaning to give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
- Hard irreparable harm to corporate reputationdescribing irreparable harm to corporate reputation (impossible to repair, rectify, or amend)
- Very Hard out of harm's wayto out of harm's way, meaning to to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
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