do harm
Frequency: 8.281.3 per million words
To cause injury, damage, or a negative effect on someone or something.
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Examples (20)
- The new factory could do serious harm to the local environment.
- The huge fall in exports has done a great deal of harm to the economy.
- As a doctor, your primary duty is to do no harm.
- Smoking will do serious harm to your health over time.
- Spreading false information does immense harm to public trust.
- Spreading that rumor could do irreparable harm to her reputation.
- He was afraid that his words had done more harm than good.
- The oil spill is doing untold harm to marine life.
- While the medicine has side effects, it's not expected to do any long-term harm.
- His harsh words did more harm than he realized.
- The harsh economic policies did great harm to the country's poorest citizens.
- Be careful with that medicine; it might do more harm than good.
- A little criticism won't do you any harm; it will help you grow.
- He's a gentle soul who would never intentionally do any harm.
- They were careful not to do any harm to the ancient artifact during the excavation.
- Critics argue that the new law will do considerable harm to the creative industries.
- Will this decision ultimately do more harm than good for the team?
- Too much screen time does harm to a child's development.
- He never meant to do harm, but his carelessness had serious consequences.
- Did the intervention really help, or did it just do more harm?