grave harm
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgraveandharm
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grave
adjective
uk/ɡreɪv/us/ɡreɪv/
seriously ...
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harm
noun[U]
uk/hɑːm/us/hɑːrm/
physical or other injury ...
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(Definition ofgraveandharmfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It will causegraveharm.
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In addition, along with the misery and trauma of loss, sympathy for those actually harmed accompanies terror when terror comes from knowngraveharmthat has already occurred.
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Certainly they appal people in the country at large and do us allgraveharm.
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It is a grave situation which is doing our countrygraveharm.
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This is where the anti-inflationary policy doesgraveharmto the real economy.
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The meaning of the word pernicious is, "wicked, malicious, causinggraveharm".
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Even ordinary detergents can causegraveharmto a child who drinks them.
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That is a lamentable and foolish state of affairs, which has done our countrygraveharm.
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That is a most mischievous proposition, and likely to dograveharm.
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I could not discontinue this practice withoutgraveharmto war production.
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We are not here considering serious attacks causinggraveharmto the police officer.
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I cannot share his view that nograveharmwill be done by the name.
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If the local authorities are denied decent notice, and if their plans are interrupted, then, of course, there isgraveharmto the whole process.
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By doing so, they dograveharmto individual contractors who have been doing valuable work for local authorities for years.
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If ever there were a subject where political dispute has donegraveharmto the interests of the less well-off, it is in rented housing.
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I fail to see that any verygraveharmwould come by such a fact as that being made known generally.
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I am convinced that a quota system would damage the country's total supply of teachers and do our education servicegraveharm.
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Nobody should be able to drive a car if he is in a condition which could causegraveharmto someone else.
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There are many subjects on whichgraveharmwould he done if prolonged consultations, which led to leakages, took place before an announcement.
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I believe that that emotion is something which has already done verygraveharmindeed in this highly vexed question of racial relations.
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But as the years go by one can see agraveharmbeing inflicted on home life generally by this prolonged separation between parents and children.
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In this sense, the protests about his rights and liberties by one individual could dograveharmand danger to the rights, liberties and privileges of another citizen.
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It is a foolish policy which may, though we doubt it, bring short-term benefits but which, in the long term, will causegraveharmto the country.
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If we carry on as we have been in the past two or three years, we shall endanger our agriculture and dograveharmto the environment as a whole.
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