immense harm

collocation in English

meaningsofimmenseandharm

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immense
adjective
uk
/ɪˈmens/us
/ɪˈmens/
extremely large in size ...
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harm
noun[U]
uk
/hɑːm/us
/hɑːrm/
physical or other injury ...
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(Definition ofimmenseandharmfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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How do we sustain our own moral development and that of the next generation while still keeping the victims ofimmenseharmin our living memory?
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Only free speech absolutists deny that speech can be regulated, or even outlawed altogether, in circumstances when there is no doubt it will causeimmenseharmor damage.
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There is no halfway house, and if you try to find one you doimmenseharm.
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It could well result in a major industrial conflagration the ravages of which could doimmenseharmto this country.
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Certainly it has done the countryimmenseharm.
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We all know that such chemicals, in high enough quantity, can causeimmenseharm.
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Hazards can causeimmenseharmto the human race and indeed to the future of this planet.
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Acid rain caused by our coal-fired power stations doesimmenseharmto the environment.
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It will doimmenseharmif it is persisted in.
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But much of the criticism that comes from this country is spiteful, ill-advised and doesimmenseharm.
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Nothing was more humiliating as far as our country was concerned, and it has done usimmenseharm.
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It is doingimmenseharmto the whole project.
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I believe that such cases doimmenseharmto the teaching profession.
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In three years,immenseharmhas been done to the economy.
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They know theimmenseharmthat will be done to their activities as a result of what is being discussed today.
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Certainly that would do usimmenseharmboth ways.
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Prolonged use of armed force within a community doesimmenseharm.
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Why, then, this action, which has doneimmenseharmto a worthy object?
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When that balance changes, as it has done on this issue, it causesimmenseharmand resentment.
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I believe thatimmenseharmand damage was caused by the unnecessary compulsion.
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