Injury vs. Harm — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Injury and Harm
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Injury
Injury, also known as physical trauma, is damage to the body caused by external force. This may be caused by accidents, falls, hits, weapons, and other causes.
Harm
Harm is a moral and legal concept. Bernard Gert construes harm as any of the following: pain death disability loss of ability or freedom loss of pleasure.Joel Feinberg gives an account of harm as setbacks to interests.
Injury
An instance of being injured
She suffered an injury to her back
Harm
Physical or psychological damage or injury
The storm did great harm to the crops.
Injury
Damage to a person's feelings
Compensation for injury to feelings
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Harm
Immoral or unjust effects
They made a mistake and meant no harm.
Injury
Damage or harm done to or suffered by a person or thing
Escaped from the accident without injury.
A scandal that did considerable injury to the campaign.
Harm
To do harm to
Pollutants that harm the environment.
People who were harmed in the accident.
Injury
A particular form of hurt, damage, or loss
A leg injury.
Harm
Physical injury; hurt; damage
No harm came to my possessions.
You can do a lot of harm to someone if you kick them in the balls. Especially if they get revenge and bring out a bazooka and blast your head off.
Injury
(Law) Violation of the rights of another party for which legal redress is available.
Harm
Emotional or figurative hurt
Although not physically injured in the car accident, she received some psychological harm.
Injury
(Obsolete) An insult.
Harm
Detriment; misfortune.
I wish him no harm.
Injury
Damage to the body of a living thing.
The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.
Harm
That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
Injury
Other forms of damage sustained by a living thing, e.g. psychologically.
Harm
To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.
Injury
The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.
Slander is an injury to the character.
Harm
Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
Injury
(archaic) Injustice.
Harm
That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
We, ignorant of ourselves,Beg often our own harms.
Injury
(obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
Harm
To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.
Though yet he never harmed me.
No ground of enmity between us knownWhy he should mean me ill or seek to harm.
Injury
Any damage or hurt done to a person or thing; detriment to, or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character.
For he that doeth injury shall receive that that he did evil.
Many times we do injury to a cause by dwelling on trifling arguments.
Riot ascends above their loftiest towers,And injury and outrage.
Harm
Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
Injury
Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
Harm
The occurrence of a change for the worse
Injury
An accident that results in physical damage or hurt
Harm
The act of damaging something or someone
Injury
A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
Harm
Cause or do harm to;
These pills won't harm your system
Injury
An act that injures someone
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