Harm and Reduce

Harm

Harm verb - To cause bodily damage to.

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

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

Reduce verb - To bring to a lower grade or rank.

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Harm and reduce are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Harm" instead a verb "Reduce".

Nearby Words: reduced, reduction, reducing, reducible

humanity	harm humanity	reduce humanity
people	harm people	reduce people
men	harm men	reduce men
target	harm target	reduce target
Other words: anyone, city, opponent, player, enemy, humans, chances, enemies.

Under normal circumstance, attacks in the Astral Realms don't harm health, but instead reduce Willpower (a person's reserve of mental and emotional strength).

Source: Your Mind Makes It Real
Averted with the tombs that show up during worldgen, as they're littered with degraded traps that vastly reduce their ability to harm an adventurer.

Source: Durable Deathtrap
While he never actually leaves the Vogons, he does in the end dedicate his life to working against their ways within the system and hopefully reduce the amount of harm they do to others.

Source: Literature / And Another Thing...

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