Harming

Definition

harm /hɑ:m/ n [U] ထိခိုက္နစ္နာျခင္း။ အႏၲရာယ္။ He meant no harm (ie did not intend to hurt or upset anyone). ❍ A few late nights never did anyone any harm. ❍ Don't worry, we'll make sure she comes to no harm. ❍ I don't particularly like him but I certainly don't wish him any harm. ❍ The treatment did him more harm than good. v ထိခိုက္နစ္နာေစသည္။ အႏၲရာယ္ျပဳသည္။ ဒုကၡေပးသည္။ an event which has harmed relations between the two countries ❍ Poor exam results will harm his chances of getting into university. ❏ no harm done [ IDM ] ( infml ) (သူတစ္ပါးကို ဘာမွ် မထိခိုက္ေၾကာင္း၊ အႏၲရာယ္မျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာလိုေသာအခါ သံုးေသာစကား)။ ဘာမွ်မျဖစ္ပါဘူး။ အက်ဳိးမယုတ္ႏိုင္ပါဘူး။ Don't worry about it, David, no harm done. ❏ out of harm's way [ IDM ] အႏၲရာယ္ကင္းေသာေနရာ။ ေဘးကင္းရန္ကင္းေနရာ။ Put that vase out of harm's way so that the children can't break it. ❏ there is no harm in (sb's) doing sth/ it does no harm (for sb) to do sth [ IDM ] အက်ဳိးမယုတ္ႏိုင္ပါဘူး။ He may not be able to help but there's no harm in asking him.

Examples

1. Projects that lead to environmental harm
2. [do/cause (someone) harm] : Eating sweets occasionally doesn’t do children any harm.
3. The new law is likely to do irreparable harm in urban areas.
4. The ‘low levels’ of cyanide in the river were sufficient to cause harm to aquatic life.