harmer

See also: Harmer

English

Etymology

From harm +‎ -er.

Noun

harmer (plural harmers)

  1. (rare) One who harms.
    • 1961, Sietze Buning, A linguistic analysis of words referring to monsters in Beowulf:
      Turning to the post-Beowulf Cynewulfian poems, one notes the same duality between spiritual and natural "harmers" in the use of the word.
    • 2013, James P. Sterba, From Rationality to Equality, page 180:
      And if the rich succeed in using the surplus, they would also be the first harmers because the poor are thereby made worse off.

Derived terms

Danish

Verb

harmer

  1. present of harme
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