(a.) Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous.
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.
Prey
Definition:
(n.) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.
(n.) That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.
(n.) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
(n.) To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(2) The concentration of prey and the ciliate mean cell volume, dry weight, and number per milliliter were determined at known growth rates.
(3) This unusual pattern of unbalanced growth may represent an adaptation by bdellovibrios to maximize their progeny yield from the determinate amount of substrate available within a given prey cell.
(4) We have four Money Shops in Medway: they know they can prey on the vulnerable, and most residents can't pay back on time.
(5) Plethodontid salamanders capture prey by projecting the tongue from the mouth.
(6) About 2 weeks after metamorphosis, midwife toads Alytes obstetricans judge the size of a prey object mainly in scales of visual angle.
(7) As the outer wall was dissolved, outgrowth began with the elongation of the germinant as it emerged from the prey ghost as an actively motile cell.
(8) In the present study the chemical composition of the venom was examined in order to determine the presence of constituents that may have physiologically important actions on the prey.
(9) The fate of those black boys and men rested in the hands of a racist system that preys on the fear and vulnerability of their parents.
(10) Paradoxical sleep is associated with a factor related to predatory danger, which suggests that large amounts of this sleep phase are disadvantageous in prey species.
(11) The latency increase is not likely to be due to motor fatigue, since it can be partially reversed by dishabituation with an alternate prey species.
(12) Two cases are considered: mutualism with the prey and mutualism with the first predator.
(13) At the same time, cetaceans are under threat from a variety of pressures including direct and indirect takes, pollution, and competition for habitat and prey.
(14) A wide range of suggested functions found in the literature include food acquisition, prey attack, aggression and attack behavior, facial expression in intraspecies communications, dispersion of pheromones, maintaining head position in swimming, and a wide range of environmental monitoring (e.g., current detection in water, wind direction on land).
(15) We suggest that the first step of the prey-catching sequence is to adjust the accommodative state of the lenses and thus lock the visual apparatus on to a stimulus.
(16) They prey on the population, kidnapping and extorting in cahoots with criminal gangs, according to multiple complaints filed to the human rights commission.
(17) For much of the film, Deckard refuses to identify himself with his prey; after all, that might make him no better than an organic machine.
(18) Phage typing was performed on 795 strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from poultry, a turkey, pigeons, and birds of prey in Japan and 4 countries in Europe, using the avian phage set of typing phages plus 6 others.
(19) Functional morphologists commonly study feeding behavior in vertebrates by recording electrical activity from head muscles during unrestrained prey capture.
(20) The strong reactivity of the two positive yellow baboon sera with SIVagm proteins raises questions about whether these animals may have been infected by green monkeys in their native habitat; baboons occasionally prey upon and eat green monkeys.