Allow and Injure

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Allow verb - To give permission for or to approve of.

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Injure is an antonym for allow.

Nearby Words: allowance, allowable, allowing

Injure verb - To cause bodily damage to.

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Allow is an antonym for injure in hurt topic.

Nearby Words: injury, injurious, injuring

attack	allow attack	injure attack
man	allow man	injure man
time	allow time	injure time
characters	allow characters	injure characters
Other words: anyone, player, players.

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2.

Source: Literature / I, Robot
After a few preliminary stories, he formalized this with the Three Laws of Robotics: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Source: Creator / Isaac Asimov
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Source: Three-Laws Compliant

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