Harm and Help

Opposite meaning words

Harm verb - To reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of.

Usage example: the company's reputation has been harmed by allegations of crooked accounting

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Help is an antonym for harm in topics: damage, use, injure, injury.

Nearby Words: harmful, harmed, harmless, harmfully, harming

Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

Usage example: offered to help her widowed father when he moved into an apartment

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Harm is an antonym for help in topics: improve, aid, assistance, treatment, employee.

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

good	good harm	good help
physical	physical harm	physical help
direct	direct harm	direct help
actual	actual harm	actual help
Other adjectives: real, big, great, serious, little, personal, major, immediate, mental, psychological, possible, indirect, less, further, extra, significant, external, financial, magical.

girl	harm girl	help girl
friend	harm friend	help friend
humanity	harm humanity	help humanity
man	harm man	help man
Other words: people, children, family, someone, mother, child, anyone, humans, friends, heroes.

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