1. Give trouble or pain to
   "This exercise will hurt your back"
    
2. Be a source of pain
   "The cut on his hand hurt";
   - ache, smart
    
3. Feel ill, be uncomfortable or in pain
   "Were you hurting after the accident?";
   - suffer, ache
    
4. Cause emotional anguish or make miserable
   "It hurts me to see my children not being taught well in school";
   - pain, anguish
    
5. Cause (somebody) emotional pain or offence
   "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests";
   - wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite
    
6. Cause damage or affect negatively
   "Our business was hurt by the new competition";
   - injure

1. Any physical damage to the body caused by violence, accident or fracture etc.
   "He suffered minor hurts in the fall";
   - injury, harm, trauma
    
2. Feelings of mental or physical pain
   "His hurt at being excluded was palpable";
   - suffering
    
3. Psychological suffering
   "Her betrayal caused him deep hurt";
   - distress, suffering
    
4. A damage or loss
   "The scandal proved to be a hurt to his political career";
   - detriment
    
5. The act of damaging something or someone
   "The fall caused serious hurt to his knee";
   - damage, harm, scathe [archaic]

1. Suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle
   "ambulances … for the hurt men and women";
   - wounded
    
2. Damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value
   "The hurt economy struggled to recover";
   - weakened

Derived forms: hurt, hurting, hurts

See also: damaged, injured

Type of: arouse, cause to be perceived, change of integrity, damage, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, elicit, enkindle [literary], evoke, experience, feel, harm, health problem, ill health, impairment, indispose, kindle, pain, painfulness, provoke, raise, unhealthiness, untune [rare], upset

Encyclopedia: Hurt, Robert