grievous harm

collocation in English

meaningsofgrievousandharm

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grievous
adjective
uk
/ˈɡriː.vəs/us
/ˈɡriː.vəs/
having very serious effects or causing ...
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harm
noun[U]
uk
/hɑːm/us
/hɑːrm/
physical or other injury ...
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(Definition ofgrievousandharmfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A man's reputation as a private individual or in the way of his calling may have sufferedgrievousharm without its being possible to prove any direct pecuniary loss.
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This raises matters of the gravest concern—matters that have done great andgrievousharmto the nation.
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Moreover, in some cases such a principle would mean doing mostgrievousharmto the conscience of one of these people.
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But any man with experience of business is bound to admit that these proposals and suggestions are doinggrievousharmto the restoration of trade.
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It has certainly done the centregrievousharm.
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It causesgrievousharmto the newspaper industry of this country.
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In my opinion it has donegrievousharm.
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As a result, by good intentions, they have donegrievousharmto exactly the people whom they want to benefit.
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That individual may suffergrievousharmof some kind and serious detriment to his professional or private standing in society.
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If they want to carry that further, they might well investigate other aspects of the investment grant system which are doinggrievousharmto our industry.
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There is not a shadow of doubt in the first place that this dispute is doing us mostgrievousharmat a most critical time in our history.
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A man's reputation as a private individual or in the way of his calling may have sufferedgrievousharm without its being possible to prove any direct pecuniary loss.
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Will he, on behalf of the whole nation, bear in mind in future that small sums of money taken out of national expenditure may dogrievousharm?
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