different between harm vs fatality

English

Etymology

From Middle English harm, herm, from Old English hearm, from Proto-West Germanic *harm, from Proto-Germanic *harmaz (“harm; shame; pain”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /h??m/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??m/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m

Noun

harm (countable and uncountable, plural harms)

1. physical injury; hurt; damage

2. emotional or figurative hurt
3. detriment; misfortune.

4. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.

Usage notes

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

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Verb

harm (third-person singular simple present harms, present participle harming, simple past and past participle harmed)

1. To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

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Derived terms

Anagrams

• Hmar, mahr

Icelandic

Noun

harm

1. indefinite accusative singular of harmur

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha???m?/

Noun

harm

1. h-prothesized form of arm

Middle English

Alternative forms

• harem, arme, herme

Etymology

From Old English hearm, from Proto-West Germanic *harm.

Noun

harm (plural harms)

1. harm, injury, ruination

Descendants

• English: harm
• Scots: herm, hairm
• Yola: harrm

References

• “harm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *harmaz.

Noun

harm m

1. harm

Descendants

• Middle Low German: harm, herm

English

Etymology

From French fatalité. equivalent to fatal +? -ity.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /fe??tæl?ti/, [fe???t?æl??i]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??tæl?t?/, /f??tæl?t?/
• Rhymes: -æl?ti

Noun

fatality (plural fatalities)

1. The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. [from 17th c.]
2. Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate. [from 17th c.]
3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. [from 18th c.]
   • 1851, Wilkie Collins, The Twin Sisters

     What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities?

4. Death.
5. An accident that causes death. [from 19th c.]
6. A person killed.
7. (video games) A move where one character kills another.

Synonyms

• (state proceeding from destiny): inevitability
• (tendency to death, destruction or danger): mortality

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