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harmful
adjective as in injurious, hurtful
Strongest matches
adverse, bad, catastrophic, damaging, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, disastrous, inimical, noxious, painful, pernicious, risky, ruinous, sinful, toxic, unhealthy, unsafe
Weak matches
baleful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, consumptive, corroding, corrupting, crippling, deleterious, dire, evil, harassing, incendiary, internecine, malefic, malicious, malignant, menacing, mischievous, murderous, nocuous, pestiferous, pestilential, sinister, subversive, undermining, unwholesome, virulent
Example Sentences
The majority of milk drunk in the UK is heat-treated - or pasteurised - to kill off harmful bacteria.
They move throughout tissues searching for harmful microbes and viruses, clearing away damaged or dead cells, and activating other parts of the immune system when needed.
The researchers showed that by acting on a specific mechanism, harmful "waste proteins" produced in the brain can cross this barrier and be cleared into the bloodstream.
It means switching to cleanly made electricity, clean transportation, fewer beef and dairy cows and other sources of harmful gases.
"Our own research shows that children are exposed to harmful content and put at risk when engaging with AI, including AI chatbots," it said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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