Synonyms of harmed

harmed 1 of 2

adjective

as in hurt

Related Words

• hurt
• injured
• damaged
• broken
• impaired
• spoiled
• crippled
• disfigured
• blemished
• marred
• vitiated
• inadequate
• fallible
• insufficient
• defaced
• wanting
• incomplete
• deficient
• defective
• imperfect
• flawed
• faulty
• amiss
• bad

Dissimilar Words

• perfect
• intact
• entire
• whole
• complete
• flawless
• impeccable
• faultless
• unimpaired
• undamaged
• unspoiled
• unblemished

harmed

2 of 2

verb

past tense of harm

1

as in damaged

to cause bodily damage to

though she wasn't harmed by the flying glass, she slipped and fell on a piece and cut her hand

Synonyms & Similar Words

• damaged
• injured
• wounded
• hurt
• bruised
• scarred
• tortured
• blew out
• battered
• afflicted
• mutilated
• maimed
• lacerated
• crippled
• grazed
• tormented
• bloodied
• impaired
• gored
• scalded
• abused
• tore
• aggrieved
• creased
• nicked
• mangled
• hamstrung
• strained
• maltreated
• contused
• cut
• scathed
• gashed
• marred
• laid up
• scraped
• lamed
• spoiled
• blemished

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cured
• fixed
• healed
• remedied
• mended

2

as in injured

to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of

the company's reputation has been harmed by allegations of crooked accounting

Synonyms & Similar Words

• damaged
• injured
• marred
• hurt
• compromised
• crippled
• weakened
• impaired
• eroded
• destroyed
• spoiled
• broke
• disfigured
• undermined
• flawed
• ruined
• crossed (up)
• defaced
• blemished
• vitiated
• bloodied
• wounded
• shattered
• deteriorated
• crabbed
• battered
• endamaged
• tarnished
• wrecked
• wore (away)
• enfeebled
• tortured
• demolished
• washed out
• blighted
• devastated
• dented
• enervated
• disabled
• smashed
• maimed
• mutilated
• scoured
• tormented
• crushed
• wasted
• annihilated
• botched
• decimated
• lacerated
• pulverized
• mangled
• wiped out
• hamstrung
• totaled
• clobbered
• razed
• lamed
• dinged
• gummed (up)
• bashed
• desolated
• scourged
• dinted
• tore down
• dashed
• queered
• did in
• banged up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• repaired
• rebuilt
• fixed
• helped
• reconstructed
• cured
• renovated
• healed
• mended
• doctored
• rehabilitated
• patched
• revamped
• remedied
• rectified
• reconditioned
• improved
• revised
• edited
• enhanced
• remodeled
• enriched
• refined
• perfected
• ameliorated
• bettered
• meliorated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of harmed

Verb

It could be attributed to the fawn stress response, in which a survivor may appease or try to maintain peace with the person who harmed them, Cutter said. — Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026

Sympathize with those who have been harmed, and who were damaged by that harm. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026

Treating children already harmed by obesity and changing the systems that harmed them are not competing priorities. — Babak J. Orandi, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026

To gain standing, plaintiffs must allege they have been harmed or will be harmed; asserting there could be harm to others who are similarly situated isn’t enough. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 30 Sep. 2026

Under that state law, a jury had required chemical giant Monsanto to pay more than $1 million in compensation to a person who had been harmed by exposure to glyphosate, a pesticide sold under the commercial name Roundup. — Patrick Parenteau, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026

Another would create a private right of action for New Yorkers harmed by AI agents. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026

Other governments and experts said Cambodia has not done enough against the perpetrators of the scam industry that has harmed people globally and called for criminal prosecutions. — ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026

But for the policy to reach the courts, someone will have to first have to prove that they are sufficiently harmed to have standing to sue. — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 21 Sep. 2026