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Spell Bee Word: Harm


What does harm mean?

Word: Harm

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Harm means to hurt someone or damage something.

Synonyms: hurt, damage, injure

Antonyms: help

How do you spell harm?

Syllables: harm

Tricky part: The vowel in harm is the ar of car and farm. Children who spell by sound sometimes write haarm or swap the r and a.

Watch out for: haarm, hram

Memory tip: Harm and farm differ by one letter: f for farm, h for harm, with the same ar in the middle.

Harm in a sentence

Example 1: Loud music can harm your ears.

Example 2: Please do not harm the birds in the park.

Example 3: The heavy rain did not harm our crops this year.

Fun Fact

Harm comes from an Old English word, hearm, which meant grief or pain.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

harm

a) break
b) spoil
c) wound
d) protect

Show answer

d) protect. To protect is to keep safe, which is the opposite of harm.

Word Makeup

Choose the correct suffix to add to the word:

harm

a) liss
b) les
c) lass
d) less

Show answer

d) less. Harmless means safe, and its ending has a double s.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) scrach
b) harm
c) danjer
d) distroy

Show answer

b) harm. Danger has a soft g, not j, so danjer is wrong; distroy and scrach have a slip each as well.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Loud music can harme your ears, so keep the volume low.

a) ears
b) volume
c) music
d) harme

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d) harme. Harm ends with the m; no e follows it.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eating too many of which food can harm your teeth?

a) cucumbers
b) carrots
c) apples
d) sweets

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d) sweets

2. Harm can be a noun too. Pick the sentence where it is one.

a) The storm did no harm to our house.
b) Too much sun can harm your skin.
c) Do not harm the birds.
d) Weeds can harm young plants.

Show answer

a) The storm did no harm to our house.

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Next steps

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