What's the difference between harm and unharmed?

Harm


Definition:

  • (n.) Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
  • (n.) That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
  • (n.) To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
  • (2) Bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS), which are important components of the cell wall of gram-negative bacteria, induce a number of host responses both beneficial and harmful.
  • (3) Robert Francis QC's official report in February on the Mid Staffordshire care scandal, in which an estimated 400 to 1,200 patients died unnecessarily at Stafford hospital between 2005 and 2008, called for the NHS to make "zero harm" its objective.
  • (4) I realise now that the drug is far less harmful then I believed at the time.
  • (5) Irrespective of method, the suicide attempt was predominantly a psychotic act of young single people with chronic, severe disorders and considerable past parasuicide, in a setting of escalating self-harm.
  • (6) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
  • (7) Jails and prison populations are unique in the incidence of deliberate self-harm, but the phenomenon is not well understood.
  • (8) It’s been widely reported that black people are disproportionately harmed by the mortgage market.
  • (9) Repeat patients were more likely to threaten to harm others, have a diagnosis of adjustment disorder, conduct or oppositional disorder and be under the care of a child welfare agency.
  • (10) Considerations of different ways of obtaining informed consent, determining ways of minimizing harm, and justifications for violating the therapeutic obligation are discussed but found unsatisfactory in many respects.
  • (11) Judge John Burgess told the men that their intention was “to do great harm in a peaceful community”.
  • (12) Lack of transparency about the nature of the relationship between police and media also led to speculation and perceptions, whatever the facts, that caused "serious harm".
  • (13) The problem of the achondroplast arises when his surroundings, right from the start, reject his disorder, connoting it with destructive anxiety: this seriously harms the subject's physical image, making him an outcast.
  • (14) Religious efforts to address the issue have also been complicit in absolving men of their crimes, objectifying women and doing more harm than good with campaigns that blame women for the phenomenon.
  • (15) Both the observance of occupational limit-values for dusts and other harmful materials at the work place, which have effects on the respiration system, and the medical survey of workers with the use of special methods for examination of respiratory system are necessary.
  • (16) Changes in the fitness of harmful mutations may therefore impose a greater long-term disadvantage on asexual populations than those which are sexual.
  • (17) The possibility of being liable if an incompetent student becomes registered and causes harm is also discussed.
  • (18) Butler was convicted of grevious bodily harm and child cruelty, and sentenced to prison.
  • (19) Was the Dalkon Shield so harmful in the nulliparous woman?
  • (20) Education can increase compliance and sometimes modify harmful behavior.

Unharmed


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Male and female DBA 11 mice recovered from 1 hr of anesthesia with chloroform of fluoroxene apparently unharmed.
  • (2) The civil defence agency reported that 72 vehicles had been rescued in the Riyadh region with their occupants unharmed.
  • (3) This enabled the section commander to drag away the fallen soldier, who was dazed but unharmed.
  • (4) After all, the most basic freedom of all is the freedom to walk the streets unharmed and to sleep safe in our beds at night.” Parliament will soon debate the government’s first national security legislation bill to expand the powers of intelligence agencies and criminalise disclosure by any person of covert “special intelligence agencies”.
  • (5) It is suggested that under normal conditions albumin extracts enough hemin to leave the erythrocyte with unharmful hemin amounts, however, under pathological conditions greater amounts accumulate leading to a shorter cell life span.
  • (6) Chu, with trembling lips, said that “a 70-year-old like me is unable to lead all the Occupy protestors home unharmed and protect young people from being hit”.
  • (7) Path of the spill "The mud will react with organic substances in the Danube and will lose its force and turn unharmful," said Professor Huub Savenije, a hydrologist from Delft University in the Netherlands.
  • (8) The prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, who was due to attend the camp today, was reported to have been working at home and to have been unharmed by the blast, as were the rest of the cabinet.
  • (9) Engineers were not convinced the booster would survive the violence of the separation, but in the test, the rocket appeared to be unharmed and continued on its course into space.
  • (10) Under the trust's programme on its 20 sq km Killerton Estate , near Exeter, badgers will be caught in live traps, injected with the licensed BCG vaccine, marked so they will not be injected again and released unharmed.
  • (11) The man was blindfolded and bound at a North Carolina home before FBI agents traced phone calls from his abductors and stormed the residence, rescuing him mostly unharmed, authorities said.
  • (12) The resulting lesions heal without significant scarring, and deeper layers of the skin remain unharmed.
  • (13) They eventually depart, unharmed, but they’re forced to leave a patient’s dead body behind.
  • (14) This theory is based on the concept that sharp oxygen gradients exist in rapidly metabolizing tissue and that shifts in these gradients can place specific cells at risk for metabolic death while relatively adjacent cells escape unharmed; cells that are unharmed meet the steady-state requirements (V less than Vmax), those at risk do not (V greater than Vmax).
  • (15) Only the giant Antarctic slater Glyptonotus antarcticus survived the exposure to the contaminated water unharmed.
  • (16) During treatment, normal tissues and resistant 6C3HED lymphomas survive unharmed with intracellular asparagine levels which are critically low for sensitive lymphomas.
  • (17) Evidence for maternal immune recognition of the fetus can be found during pregnancy, yet the conceptus remains unharmed.
  • (18) Monolateral bridging were in fact performed only in those cases where the contralateral vascular district was unharmed, in patients with serious ganrenous lesions and those with a high operative risk.
  • (19) The basement membrane was in all experiments unharmed by hydrogel contact lens wear.
  • (20) Assuming that the human organism is anxious to remain unharmed and, like viruses maintain its adaptability by a system of multiform control systems one can imagine, that the autoimmunity induced by and therefore directed primarily against viruses can be regarded as "physiological", thus representing a protective mechanism against disturbing exogenous and endogenous factors.

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