Hurt

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cause physical damage or pain to; injure.
  • v. To cause mental or emotional suffering to; distress.
  • v. To cause physical damage to; harm: The frost hurt the orange crop.
  • v. To be detrimental to; hinder or impair: The scandal hurt the candidate's chances for victory.
  • verb-intransitive. To have or produce a feeling of physical pain or discomfort: My leg hurts.
  • verb-intransitive. To cause distress or damage: Parental neglect hurts.
  • verb-intransitive. To have an adverse effect: "It never hurt to have a friend at court” ( Tom Clancy).
  • verb-intransitive. Informal To experience distress, especially of a financial kind; be in need: "Even in a business that's hurting there's always a guy who can make a buck” ( New York).
  • n. Something that hurts; a pain, injury, or wound.
  • n. Mental suffering; anguish: getting over the hurt of reading the letter.
  • n. A wrong; harm: What hurt have you done to them?
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To be painful.
  • v. To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
  • v. To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
  • v. To undermine, impede, or damage.
  • adj. Wounded, physically injured.
  • adj. Pained.
  • n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience)
  • n. A wound or pain.
  • n. A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
  • n. A husk. See husk, 2.
  • v. To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.
  • v. To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm.
  • v. To wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To knock, hit, or dash against, so as to wound or pain; inflict suffering upon.
  • To give mental pain to; wound or injure in mind or feelings; grieve; distress.
  • In general, to do harm or mischief to; affect injuriously; endamage.
  • To cause injury, harm, or pain of any kind, mental or physical.
  • To rush with violence.
  • n. An injury, especially one that gives physical or mental pain, as a wound, bruise, insult, etc.; in general, damage; impairment; detriment; harm.
  • n. Synonyms Harm, Mischief, etc. See injury.
  • n. The huckleberry, particularly Vaccinium Myrtillus.
  • n. In heraldry, a roundel azure, representing the huckleberry.
  • n. Contracted third person singular indicative present for hurteth.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cause emotional anguish or make miserable
  • adj. damaged inanimate objects or their value
  • v. give trouble or pain to
  • adj. suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle
  • n. psychological suffering
  • n. feelings of mental or physical pain
  • n. the act of damaging something or someone
  • v. feel pain or be in pain
  • v. be the source of pain
  • n. a damage or loss
  • v. feel physical pain
  • n. any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
  • v. cause damage or affect negatively
  • v. hurt the feelings of
  • Equivalent
    damaged    injured   
    Verb Form
    hurted    hurting    hurts   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    damage   
    Variant
    husk   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    damage    injure    harm    annoy    grieve    pain    offend    injury   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bert    Curt    Evert    Insert    Kurt    alert    assert    avert    birt    blurt   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    get    represser    scorcher    chastiser    repressers