HARMED Synonyms: 142 Similar and Opposite Words

harmed 1 of 2

adjective

as in hurt

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harmed

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verb

past tense of harm

as in damaged

to cause bodily damage to though she wasn't harmed by the flying glass, she slipped and fell on a piece and cut her hand

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as in injured

to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of the company's reputation has been harmed by allegations of crooked accounting

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Comans had filed a lawsuit in July 2025 that challenged her removal and argued that DHS and FEMA harmed her reputation by falsely accusing her of funneling millions of dollars to New York City for the hotels. — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026 The victim said her children were home during the incidents, but were not harmed. — Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2026 That definition would be key to determining how the players are being harmed by being declared ineligible. — Chantz Martin Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026 Alabama can strip a daycare of its quality rating if a child is harmed or dies. — Justin Price, AJC.com, 13 Oct. 2026 Parents in multiple states sued the startup, alleging in lawsuits that the chatbots harmed their children, even leading some to take their own lives. — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 In addition to The Social Reckoning, there’s the forthcoming Artificial, where Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman, and the procedural Cupertino about how people have been harmed by big tech. — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026 He was hospitalized and survived – as did the child, who wasn’t physically harmed or known to officers at the time, DHS said. — Sarah Matusek, Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2026 He was not harmed, but his mother took him to a hospital to get evaluated, the aunt said. — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for harmed

Adjective

The alleged crime has left the neighborhood shocked, hurt and outraged.

— Christina Fan, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
The emotional effects were immediate—hurt, confusion, lowered self-esteem.

— George Loewenstein, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of hurt

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The bottom of the walls was damaged; these surfaces are not smooth and easily cleanable.

— NWA Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
But cars have been burned, trees damaged and people hurt in communities across the Palestinian territory, with some people calling this the most dangerous season yet.

— Reuters, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of damaged

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On Tuesday morning, three people were killed and four injured when two vehicles caught fire in a Russian attack on the Kyiv-Odesa highway, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
The pledge follows land mine blasts that injured three South Korean soldiers; Seoul says North Korea planted the mines, while Pyongyang denies responsibility and threatens retaliation.

— Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of injured

Adjective

She was treated at hospitals in Ramallah and Israel for lacerations across her body, a broken rib and four broken vertebrae.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
The desire to move—even to move the broken ankle itself—became, at times, overwhelming.

— Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of broken

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Three were killed and six were wounded in the Obukhiv district, where warehouses were damaged, police said.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
The elder Sebastian Trotter was in the water below him, grabbing a tree trunk, wounded and barely able to speak.

— Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of wounded

Adjective

On White Cane Awareness Day, an annual observance celebrating the achievements and independence of visually impaired individuals, Darnes and more than 50 other veterans received a free pair of Meta smart glasses.

— La'Tasha Givens, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
The frame of the Universal Wawona 3 tent comes together with three poles of the same size, eliminating the need for designers to use color coding that would be useless to the visually impaired to signal which pole goes where.

— Rae Witte, Time, 15 Oct. 2026

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