Harm and Maintenance

Opposite meaning words

Harm noun - Something that causes loss or pain.

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Maintenance is an antonym for harm.

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

Maintenance noun - The act or activity of keeping something in an existing and usually satisfactory condition.

Usage example: I was hired to perform basic maintenance until the property could be sold

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Harm is an antonym for maintenance.

good	good harm	good maintenance
physical	physical harm	physical maintenance
regular	regular harm	regular maintenance
actual	actual harm	actual maintenance
Other adjectives: little, bad, general, extra.

Metroid Prime 3 has soldiers and maintenance workers in the first area that you cannot harm, but if you keep shooting them, a turret appears and the ship's AI warns you to cease fire.

Source: Video Game Cruelty Punishment
This is subtly foreshadowed by a scene much earlier in the game when the Czerka mainframe maintenance droid T1-N1 is convinced by fellow droid B4-D4 that by serving Czerka, he's willingly allowing harm to come to sentient life, and therefore is programmed to defy his own programming.

Source: Zeroth Law Rebellion

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