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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
harmful
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dangerous/hazardous/harmful substance
▪ Using chemicals or othe hazardous substances at work can put people's health at risk.
be harmful to the environment
▪ Emissions from cars are harmful to the environment.
dangerous/harmful
▪ Many cleaning products contain chemicals that can be harmful.
harmful emissions (=likely to cause harm to people or the environment)
▪ The law is designed to limit harmful emissions.
harmful/damaging (=causing harm or damage to something or someone)
▪ the harmful effects of drinking too much alcohol
▪ Some of the effects can be quite damaging.
harmful/serious/adverse etc side effect
▪ a natural remedy with no harmful side effects
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ The mushrooms themselves are only as harmful as most other hallucinogens.
▪ His resistance to her demand will be as harmful as compliance, but her misery commands his sympathy.
▪ Remember, too much could be just as harmful as too little.
more
▪ There has also been a great deal of adulation which is perhaps even more harmful for it generates mysticism.
▪ Tobacco and alcohol are far more harmful than the so-called hard drugs, heroin and cocaine.
▪ Computers and photocopiers are more harmful than tobacco?
▪ Some biologists suspect that these pulse-modulated radiations may be more harmful than unperturbed waves.
most
▪ The most harmful type are saturated animal fats, found in meat and dairy products.
▪ Tampering with the seam is much the most harmful form of ball vandalism.
▪ The experience was likely to be most harmful between six months and three years of age.
potentially
▪ These kinds of exemptions were regarded as potentially harmful by organizations such as the Royal Town Planning Institute.
▪ And the child accidentally receives a greater and potentially harmful dosage of pain reliever.
▪ The creation of the Premier League is therefore irrelevant and potentially harmful.
▪ They admit the treatment for changing the color of your skin is potentially harmful and not very effective.
▪ This is not to say that lower gliadin doses are not potentially harmful to coeliac disease subjects.
▪ When Delaney offered his amendment, scientists could identify traces of potentially harmful substances down to a level of parts per million.
▪ The intact skin acts as a barrier between the internal and the external environment which contains many potentially harmful agents.
▪ The tyres contain only low levels of carbon and no dioxins; potentially harmful products of burning tyres are to be recycled.
■ NOUN
bacteria
▪ Other plants sown with the reeds absorb heavy metals and harmful bacteria.
▪ Thorough cooking kills harmful bacteria, so be sure ground meat and poultry are cooked to the well-done stage.
▪ Ridding his stables of a harmful bacteria cocktail has been a long and costly process for Berwickshire trainer James Adam.
▪ More than a decade ago the National Academy of Sciences recommended that new technology be used to target harmful bacteria.
▪ Two separate surveys found that many prepacked sandwiches were being stored at dangerously high temperatures, causing the spread of harmful bacteria.
▪ Other chips may detect the presence of moulds or harmful bacteria.
consequence
▪ Knowledge about the harmful consequences of smoking could be maintained in a low key manner through the school curriculum.
effect
▪ The self-interest behind such measures and the harmful effects in Third World countries are plain for all to see.
▪ Initially there were concerns about the possibly harmful effects of athletics and exercise.
▪ There are risks involved in vaccinations, and the vaccination itself may have harmful effects, especially if incorrectly given.
▪ These harmful effects can also be exacerbated by the adoption of increased protectionist measures by trading blocs against non-bloc countries.
▪ Additionally, rapid repetition of the experiment allows the production of abdominal movies without any harmful effects to the subjects.
▪ Discussions about drugs' harmful effects were one thing, but McGrath was sick with heroin.
▪ Has anyone considered the harmful effects of these plants or their sap on aquatic life?
▪ Nor can we discount the possibility that some factor in the diet itself has harmful effects.
side
▪ This also made it easier to note any harmful side effects of medication and ensure compliance with treatment.
▪ There is no sound evidence of Ginseng inducing harmful side effects.
substance
▪ So when it's added to harmful substances, it makes them unpalatable.
▪ When Delaney offered his amendment, scientists could identify traces of potentially harmful substances down to a level of parts per million.
▪ Use aquarium gravel, as it should not leach harmful substances into the water.
▪ Bogwood is semi-fossilised, and should not contain harmful substances, but it may stain the water dark brown.
▪ Accidents, both from injuries or harmful substances entering the eye, can cause scarring and ulceration.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 80% of Americans think that television is harmful to society and especially to children.
▪ As yet there is no proof that genetically modified foods are harmful to humans.
▪ Doctors have warned against the harmful effects of smoking.
▪ Many of the products that we have around our homes are harmful if swallowed.
▪ Pushing kids so hard from such an early age is likely to have some harmful results.
▪ Scientists have recommended that new technology be used to target harmful bacteria.
▪ Scientists tend to agree that most diets don't work and can be harmful.
▪ The destruction of the ozone layer will have a very harmful effect on the environment.
▪ The new air pollution controls are designed to limit harmful emissions from industry and motor vehicles.
▪ The protests were aimed at ending the dumping of harmful industrial waste at sea.
▪ The sun's rays can be very harmful to the skin.
▪ You should always use sunscreen to protect your skin from the harmful effects of the sun.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If one is inherently harmful, so is the other.
▪ Is it a harmful geographic stereotype to suggest that southerners are a little bit poky?
▪ Residents living in the Jennyfields area of Harrogate were warned that the pills could prove harmful if taken by children.
▪ The cilia in the respiratory tract hasten the exit from the body of possibly harmful foreign material.
▪ The creation of the Premier League is therefore irrelevant and potentially harmful.
▪ The problem is, what is good to eat and what is harmful?
▪ Thorough cooking kills harmful bacteria, so be sure ground meat and poultry are cooked to the well-done stage.
▪ Yet medicine is not a precise science and some treatments recommended, though they benefit most casualties, may occasionally be harmful.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Harmful

Harmful \Harm"ful\ (h[aum]rm"f[.u]l), a. Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous. `` Most harmful hazards.''
--Strype.
-- Harm"ful*ly, adv. -- Harm"ful*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
harmful

mid-14c., from harm (n.) + -ful. Related: Harmfully.

Wiktionary
harmful

a. of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious

WordNet
harmful

  1. adj. injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas" [syn: noxious] [ant: innocuous]

  2. able or likely to do harm

  3. causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking" [ant: harmless]

  4. constituting a disadvantage [syn: disadvantageous] [ant: advantageous]

  5. contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions" [syn: adverse, inauspicious, untoward]

  6. tending to cause great harm [syn: evil, injurious]

Wikipedia
Harmful

Harmful is a rock band from Frankfurt, Germany, founded in 1992 and frequently compared to early Helmet and more occasionally to Blackmail. The band has released eight albums to date, the first two and last three on independent labels ( BluNoise, Steamhammer and Nois-o-lution), the third (which was produced by Dave Sardy, who also produced the latest album Cause) and fourth via BMG.

2007 saw the release of Harmful's seventh album, aptly titled 7, produced by Billy Gould, former member of Faith No More. Gould has subsequently joined the band as a fourth member and also took part in the tour supporting the album in early 2007.

In the past, Harmful has toured with bands like Slayer, Machine Head, Clutch, Paradise Lost, Therapy?, LaFaro and Helmet.

Usage examples of "harmful".

Marcaine in the open box, the HARMFUL INTENT 179 chances that his ampule would be used that day were good, especially with two epidural cases listed on the big board.

Many of the harmful hormonelike substances that we absorb from the environment are hard to avoid.

Pope into a martyr would in the long run prove harmful by generating hatred for our cause among Catholics all over the world.

HARMFUL INTENT 85 As Jeffrey weighed his alternatives, the intraterminal bus came lumbering along the roadway.

Violent, abusive as he was, unjust to any against whom he happened to have a prejudice, his castigation of the small litterateurs of that day was not harmful, but rather of use.

Never take any sleeping powders except upon the advice of a physician, for the majority of these sleeping powders contain some harmful drug, as morphine, codeine, phenacetin or acetanilid.

Lest, therefore, it should be too hard for man to be drawn away entirely from bodily actions, bodily exercise was offered to him in the sacraments, by which he might be trained to avoid superstitious practices, consisting in the worship of demons, and all manner of harmful action, consisting in sinful deeds.

Section B coda use of harmful force, with an exemption in part 2, subparagraph 4 for biomodifications in hands, elbows, and torso.

Here is a statement that is, in a sense, more harmful to Tartuffe than being caught in the act, for it allows no recovery.

Cell Cleaner to zap every harmful organism they pick up, or on trophoblastic tubules to feed them, nobody will be able to innovate enough to relearn how!

You may have some limited success in getting your narcissist to tone down on the really harmful behaviours THAT AFFECT YOU, which emanate from the unchangeable WHAT the narcissist is.

The only compound that HARMFUL INTENT 177 was listed as having been found was bupivacaine, the generic name for Marcaine.

Because bitter divorces and, essentially, abandonment of the child by a parent are so harmful, many divorce courts require parents to take a parenting class.

In this respect, the difference between ensouled creatures and plants is that, what is harmful to plants is natural for men and animals: when taking nourishment the latter are able to bring about quickly and purposefully a transformation of matter into the purely dynamic state.

There were a number of spinal cases, but they would have used spinal HARMFUL INTENT 175 grade Marcaine if Marcaine had been used at all, not the 30 cc variety used for epidurals or regional blocks.