Harm and Protest

Harm

Harm verb - To cause bodily damage to.

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Protest and harm are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Protest" instead a verb "Harm".

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

Protest verb - To state as a fact usually forcefully.

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Harm and protest are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Harm" instead a verb "Protest".

direct	direct harm	direct protest
considerable	considerable harm	considerable protest
actual	actual harm	actual protest
massive	massive harm	massive protest
Other adjectives: great, little, major, widespread, general, significant, terrorist.

When their ruse is found out and they're confronted, they protest that they were simply curious and did no harm.

Source: For Science!
Violence or self-harm might be mentioned in some detail; pretty typical for political and protest songs.

Source: Mohs Scale of Lyrical Hardness
See Horsing Around for when the horses do protest their treatment, and Invulnerable Horses for the tendency to avoid showing horses coming to harm.

Source: Somewhere, an Equestrian Is Crying

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