Select Search ----- All Bartleby.com ----- All Reference ----- Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia Cultural Literacy World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations Respectfully Quoted English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Brewer's Phrase & Fable Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough ----- All Verse ----- Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. ----- All Nonfiction ----- Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals ----- All Fiction ----- Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > American Heritage® > Roget’s > II: The New Thesaurus   PREVIOUS NEXT   CONTENTS · GUIDE · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD    Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition.  1995.   help, harm, harmless     help   noun accessory advantage (3) assistant capital comfort encouragement favor (2) help (2) helper (2) interest makeshift panacea patron patronage relief (2) renewal rescue resort tonic treatment trump   adjective auxiliary beneficial encouraging obliging positive preservative tonic   verb adjust advance benefit (2) comfort encourage (3) energize finance fix (3) help (2) improve oblige patronize profit (2) promote (2) refresh (2) renew (2) rescue (2) restore (3) serve (2) sustain treat   harm   noun abuse accident annihilation bar black eye breach breakage crash curse cut defect delay destruction (3) disadvantage disaster distress evil (2) harm irritation massacre murder murderer poison ruin (2) tear1 trauma victim weakness   adjective cruel destructive (2) fatal grievous harmful helpless murderous poisonous unfavorable virulent (2)   verb abuse afflict annihilate (2) batter bend blast botch break (6) bruise chafe consume corrupt crack (2) crash cripple (2) crush (3) cut (3) delay destroy (5) devastate disable discourage eliminate hamper hang (2) hinder hurt (2) injure (2) irritate (2) kill1 (3) murder overthrow poison shoot slip tamper tear1 (2) trample trash traumatize wreck (3)   harmless   adjective harmless   See also attack attitude better care for cause comfort conflict crimes excite explosion health hope kind like love luck make support treat well used value     Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. CONTENTS · GUIDE · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD   PREVIOUS NEXT     Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore. Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2008 Bartleby.com