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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unharmed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
escape unharmed/unscathed/unhurt
▪ Two policemen were killed, but the president escaped unharmed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All fourteen people who were working inside the building when the blaze started escaped unharmed.
▪ The hostages were released unharmed some time afterwards.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Four people were injured, one severely, and 84 escaped unharmed.
▪ If the animal is free of tuberculosis, it can be released unharmed.
▪ Montag and his new companions remain unharmed.
▪ No one strikes at their interests and walks away unharmed.
▪ The cat, although nervous, appears unharmed by the tennis ball which has just struck it amidships.
▪ This makes them useful for destroying tumours while leaving surrounding tissue unharmed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unharmed

mid-14c., from un- (1) "not" + past participle of harm (v.).

Wiktionary
unharmed

a. which has not suffered harm; which has not been injured or damaged

WordNet
unharmed

adj. wholly unharmed [syn: unhurt, unscathed]

Usage examples of "unharmed".

And only then, after childlike joy over the unharmed thistle had spread, after young Birken had heaped up earth over the bared roots and Lauremberg had run for water -- only after the company had thus recovered its innocence but before the usual chatter had time to start up did Simon Dach, beside whom Daniel Czepko had stationed himself, speak.

The two beasts sniffed each other warily, then Bozo, like an anxious parent, began licking his pup as if to make certain that he was unharmed.

Robert found Charteris, Grosvenor, Colden and the Virginians unharmed.

For an instant we were the victims of a sudden madness--it was not love--and it would have left us, unharmed, as suddenly as it had come upon us even though De Coude had not returned.

Another witness was Peter Pitseolak, a local artist who had customarily piloted 11BC ships into Dorset but on this, of all occasions, had been rebuffed by Waters, who thought he could outdo Smellie by bringing the ship in himself A few hours after the vessel went aground, the captain ordered everyone ashore in lifeboats, but the mood was still buoyant because it was a beautiful windless day and except for her ten-degree list to stern, the ship seemed unharmed.

That somehow the crisis would be resolved and Dinah would be released unharmed.

A pity: my hands ache for a spear every time I see Facilis, and I will regret it as long as I live if he goes home to Aquincum unharmed.

By the time he reached the Fauces Suburae his heart was thudding, and every part of him wanted to turn uphill, ride at the gallop to his home to make sure his family was unharmed.

Since Fiddlesticks seemed more or less unharmed, Morwen followed Cimorene inside.

But it would have been folly to have disposed of Sarchimus, leaving his most dreadful weapons unharmed for Hoom of the Many Eyes to use in his turn.

I knew then that you were unharmed, but I had to fight to keep Jazzy off you.

The taking of life being displeasing to Buddha, outside many of the temples old women and children earn a livelihood by selling sparrows, small eels, carp, and tortoises, which the worshipper sets free in honour of the deity, within whose territory cocks and hens and doves, tame and unharmed, perch on every jutty, frieze, buttress, and coigne of vantage.

He circled slowly a few times above the meadow until he had assured himself that Bertha Kircher was there and apparently unharmed, then he dropped gently to the ground so that the machine came to a stop a short distance from where the girl and the warriors awaited them.

She hoped and intended that Lotta would be recovered unharmed, but meanwhile there was work to do.

In which event Razines, which was known to be touched with the new heresy, would probably be unharmed.