Reverse Dictionary: HARM

ADJECTIVES
1220 ► ILLING evil-doing, injuring, harming; speaking ill → obs.
1340 ► NOYOUS causing annoyance; annoying, disagreeable, vexatious, troublesome, harmful, hurtful → obs.
1420 ► DAMNABLE causing loss or harm; hurtful, pernicious → obs.
1420 ► ENNOYOUS annoying, vexatious, troublesome; harmful → obs.
1440 ► NOISANT harmful, troublesome, grievous → obs.
1490 ► NUISIBLE harmful, hurtful → obs.
1538 ► NOCIVE harmful, hurtful, injurious → obs.
1548 ► OFFENSIVE hurtful, harmful, injurious → obs.
1574 ► OFFENSIBLE of the nature of an offence, fault, or crime; hurtful, harmful, injurious; offensive → obs.
1601 ► MALEFICIAL maleficent; harmful → obs.
1615 ► ILLFUL full of evil; harmful; pernicious → obs.
1616 ► NOCIVOUS hurtful, harmful, injurious, evil → obs.
1641 ► DEBOIST damaged, harmed → obs.
1678 ► MALEFICENT of things and spiritual agencies: working harm, hurtful, malefic
1727 ► MALIFEROUS bringing or producing evil or harm; hurtful, unwholesome, unhealthy, insalubrious
1901 ► SAIR destructive, harmful, injurious → Sc.
1902 ► HARMLY hurtful, harmful; annoying → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1998 ► TOXIC of a situation: harmful, unhealthy, poisonous → UK sl.
2006 ► BASTED beaten; harmed → US sl. (Bk.)

NOUNS
1000 ► BALE evil, esp. considered in its active operation, as destroying, blasting, injuring, hurting, paining, tormenting; fatal, dire, or malign quality of influence; woe, mischief, harm, injury; in earlier use often: death, infliction of death
1000 ► GRAME grief, sorrow; harm → obs.
1175 ► EVIL HEAL disaster, harm → obs.
1225 ► QUED → QUEDE evil, mischief, harm → obs.
1300 ► TINSEL the losing of something, or the sustaining of harm, damage, or detriment; loss → obs.
1300 ► TORFER hardship, trouble, distress; harm, mischief, injury → obs.
1325 ► DERE harm; injury; trouble → arch.
1330 ► PAIRMENT impairment, loss, harm, damage → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1357 ► MARRING injury, harm, impairment → obs.
1374 ► OFFENCE hurt, harm, injury, damage → obs.
1400 ► DANGER mischief, harm, damage → obs.
1550 ► VENTURE danger, jeopardy, hazard, or peril; the chance or risk of incurring harm or loss → obs.
1656 ► OBNOXIETY the state of being subject or open to anything harmful, or undesirable
1691 ► DARE harm, pain → Eng. dial.
1796 ► MALEFICENCE harmfulness
1810 ► ILL evil, misfortune, injury; harm; misunderstanding → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1826 ► TARRIE → TARY vexation, trouble, harm → Sc. obs.
M19. ► NAIL IN ONE’S COFFIN anything seen as potentially harmful, however pleasurable in the short term → sl.
1856 ► PAYMENT damage, harm, injury → Eng. dial.  
1899 ► SCADE → SKADE hurt, damage, harm, mischief → Sc.
1902 ► LACK loss, harm, damage → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► SCATLOE → SKATLOE loss, harm, prejudice → Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)

NOUNS, PERSON
1477 ► HARM-DOER one who does or causes harm
1583 ► HARMER one who harms; an injurer
1883 ► THE MOTHER OF ALL MISCHIEF an originator of great harm → Eng. dial.

VERBS
1000 ► DERE to injure or harm → arch.
1205 ► MAR to harm, to injure a person; later, to mangle, to disfigure → arch.
1338 ► SHOND to harm, to injure → obs.
1385 ► DO SOMEONE MISCHIEF to cause trouble or harm to
1385 ► OFFEND to strike so as to hurt; to wound, to hurt; to give physical pain to; to harm, to injure → obs.
1530 ► CATCH COPPER to suffer harm, to come to grief → colloq. obs.
1563 ► IMPEACH to hinder the action, progress, or well-being of; to affect detrimentally or prejudicially; to hurt, to harm, to injure, to endamage, to impair → obs.
1579 ► JEST WITH EDGE TOOLS to amuse oneself with something that may cause one serious harm; to sport with what is dangerous
1594 ► PLAY WITH EDGE-TOOLS to amuse oneself with something that may cause one serious harm; to sport with what is dangerous
1621 ► MALEFICIATE to bewitch; to affect with enchantments; to render impotent by spells; to do evil to; to hurt; to harm → obs.
1684 ► ILL to harm; to reproach; to rail at; to speak evil of → Eng. dial.
1767 ► PLAY WITH EDGED TOOLS to amuse oneself with something that may cause one serious harm; to sport with what is dangerous
1803 ► PLAY HELL WITH to cause trouble or harm to → sl.
1803 ► PLAY MERRY HELL WITH to cause trouble or harm to → sl.
1850 ► HAVE BEEN IN THE WARS to have been harmed → sl.
1861 ► MALAPEN to hurt, to harm → Sc.
1866 ► SCAM to injure, to crack; to spoil, to damage, to harm in some way, esp. of clothing → Sc.
1878 ► GUN FOR to be on the lookout for with the intent of hurting or killing; to seek out or pursue with harmful intent; to aim to punish → US sl.
1897 ► DO ONE DIRT to deceive, to mistreat, to treat meanly, to harm one, to injure, esp. underhandedly or by secret means → Amer. dial.
L19.. ► SPIKE to harm, to undermine → sl.
1906 ► DO ONE DIRTY to deceive, to mistreat, to treat meanly, to harm one, to injure, esp. underhandedly or by secret means → Amer. dial.
1924 ► GIVE THE RUN-AROUND to cause trouble or harm to → sl., orig. US
1930 ► GIVE ONE THE WHOLE WORKS → ► GIVE ONE THE WORKS to harm, to beat up, to kill → sl., orig. US
1933 ► HAVE SOMEONE’S GUTS → HAVE SOMEONE’S GUTS FOR GARTERS to inflict severe punishment or harm on someone; usually used as a threat → colloq.
1938 ► OFFSET to deceive or harm someone; to betray → Amer. dial.
1950 ► RACK UP to damage; to wreck; to harm → US sl.
1950 ► VICE to do harm, to cheat, to steal, to cause physical pain → African-American sl.
1959 ► HASSLE to cause trouble or harm to; to bother, to pester, to harass a person
1959 ► SHAFT to thrust (in one’s imagination) a pole up someone’s anus; essentially, to stop a person short; to punish or treat very badly, to harm → sl., orig. & chiefly Amer.
1959 ► SHOOT ONESELF IN THE FOOT to make one’s own situation worse; to cause oneself difficulty or harm inadvertently
1960 ► FUCK ABOUT → FUCK AROUND to cause trouble or harm to → sl.
1970 ► GIVE SOMEONE A HURTING to cause deliberate harm to someone → sl., orig. African-American
1970 ► ICE to harm, to cause trouble for → sl.
1970 ► PUT A BEATING ON to cause deliberate harm to someone → sl., orig. African-American
1970 ► PUT A HURT ON to cause deliberate harm to someone → sl., orig. African-American
1970 ► PUT A HURTING ON to cause deliberate harm to someone → sl., orig. African-American
1991 ► DROP SOMEONE IN IT to cause trouble or harm to → sl.
1999 ► PUT THE BOOT IN to cause further upset or harm to someone already in distress → (Bk.)
2006 ► CROCK UP to damage or harm someone or something → US sl. (Bk.)