grievous harm
Severe bodily damage
Grievous harm is a legal term for serious physical injury inflicted on another person, typically involving permanent damage, disfigurement, or life-threatening wounds.
In criminal law, causing grievous harm—whether intentionally or recklessly—carries heavier penalties than common assault.
The phrase also appears outside legal contexts to describe any severe damage: The scandal caused grievous harm to the company's reputation.
- burnDamage by heat
- woundCoiled, or an injury
- batteryPortable electricity storage
- assaultViolent offensive act
- amputationSurgical limb removal
fracture · broken bones · PTSD · disfigurement · irreparable · contusion · cut · distress · manslaughter · laceration · open wound · incapacitation · rupture · internal bleeding · injury · agony · maiming · pain
- dangerhazard, peril, risk, threat, menace
- Islamic jurisprudenceijma, Islamic law, Sharia, sharia court, fatwa
- assaultphysical assault, aggravated assault, simple assault, domestic assault, armed assault