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UNHARMED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unharmed mean?
• UNHARMED (adjective)
The adjective UNHARMED has 1 sense:
1. not injured or harmed
Familiarity information: UNHARMED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not injured or harmed
Synonyms:
unharmed; unhurt; unscathed; whole
Similar:
uninjured (not injured physically or mentally)
Context examples
Manipulated or engineered viruses having oncolytic properties to selectively replicate in and kill targeted cancer cells, leaving normal cells unharmed.
(Oncolytic virus, NCI Thesaurus)
One more so small child was missing, and we find it, thank God, unharmed amongst the graves.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Meanwhile a third, running unharmed all around the house, appeared suddenly in the doorway and fell with his cutlass on the doctor.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Out in the back-pasture, a quail could flutter up under his nose unharmed.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Next morning, to the astonishment of everyone, he came out again safe and unharmed, and said to the lord of the castle: The dogs have revealed to me, in their own language, why they dwell there, and bring evil on the land.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
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