unharmed

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Unharmed means not hurt or damaged in any way. Found unharmed, escaped unharmed, returned unharmed.

It is the word everybody hopes to read in a news report, and found unharmed is the standard phrase after a search. It means physically unhurt and says nothing about anything else, which is a limitation the word quietly carries.

Definitions of unharmed

1adjectiveunharmedNot hurt or damaged in any way.B2
“The hostages were released unharmed after three days.”

unharmed is a state.

Also accepted in games: unscathed

Where it comes from

From un- + harmed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

unharmed in the wild

During the course of the race, Gilmour crashed, and while he was unharmed, Steve O'Rourke (his map-reader and Pink Floyd's manager) suffered a broken leg.
La Carrera Panamericana
EURECA is one of the few uncrewed space vehicles that have been returned to the Earth unharmed.
European Retrievable Carrier
The garrison at Greenhalgh Castle eventually surrendered in May 1645 provisional on their being granted safe conduct to return to their homes unharmed.
Greenhalgh Castle
The local population attributed his being unharmed to relics discovered by a peasant plowing in the vicinity - a discovery attributed to divine intervention.
Chiaffredo
The 17 Indian and 5 Italian crew members of the Italy-registered vessel were reported to be unharmed, but taken hostage.
Savina Caylyn

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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