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Verb: hurt (hurt) hurt- Be a source of pain
- ache, smart - Give trouble or pain to
"This exercise will hurt your back" - Cause emotional anguish or make miserable
"It hurts me to see my children not being taught well in school"; - pain, anguish - Cause damage or affect negatively
"Our business was hurt by the new competition"; - injure - Cause (somebody) emotional pain or offence
"She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; - wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite - Feel physical pain
"Were you hurting after the accident?"; - ache, suffer - Feel ill, be uncomfortable or in pain
- suffer Noun: hurt hurt- Any physical damage to the body caused by violence, accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
- injury, harm, trauma - Psychological suffering
- distress, suffering - Feelings of mental or physical pain
- suffering - A damage or loss
- detriment - The act of damaging something or someone
- damage, harm, scathe [archaic] Adjective: hurt hurt- Suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle
"ambulances...for the hurt men and women"; - wounded - Damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value
- weakened
Derived forms: hurt, hurting, hurts See also: damaged, injured Type of: arouse, be, cause to be perceived, change of integrity, comprehend, damage, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, elicit, enkindle [literary], evoke, fire, harm, health problem, ill health, impairment, indispose, kindle, pain, painfulness, perceive, provoke, raise, unhealthiness, untune, upset Encyclopedia: Hurt, Robert |