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hurt

UK/hɜːt/ US/hɝt/ very common
verb (7) noun (5) adjective (2)

verb

1.

be the source of pain

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2.

give trouble or pain to

  • “This exercise will hurt your back”
3.

cause emotional anguish or make miserable

  • “It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school”
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4.

cause damage or affect negatively

  • “Our business was hurt by the new competition”
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5.

hurt the feelings of

  • “She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests”
  • “This remark really bruised me ego”
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6.

feel physical pain

  • “Were you hurting after the accident?”
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7.

feel pain or be in pain

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noun

1.

any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

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2.

psychological suffering

  • “the death of his wife caused him great distress”
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3.
4.

a damage or loss

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adjective

1.

suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle

  • “nursing his wounded arm”
  • “ambulances...for the hurt men and women”
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2.

used of inanimate objects or their value

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Origin

From Middle English hurten, hirten, hertan (“to injure, scathe, knock together”), from Old Northern French hurter ("to ram into, strike, collide with"; > Modern French heurter), perhaps from Frankish *hūrt (“a battering ram”), cognate with Welsh hwrdd (“ram”) and Cornish hordh (“ram”). Compare Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (“to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”); however, the earliest instances of the verb in Middle English are as old as those found in Old French, which leads to the possibility that the Middle English word may instead be a reflex of an unrecorded Old English *hyrtan, which later merged with the Old French verb. Germanic cognates include Dutch horten (“to push against, strike”), Middle Low German hurten (“to run at, collide with”), Middle High German hurten (“to push, bump, attack, storm, invade”), Old Norse hrútr (“battering ram”). Alternate etymology traces Old Northern French hurter rather to Old Norse hrútr (“ram (male sheep)”), lengthened-grade variant of hjǫrtr (“stag”), from Proto-Germanic *herutuz, *herutaz (“hart, male deer”), which would relate it to English hart (“male deer”). See hart.

Phrases

  • butt hurt
  • church hurt
  • did my back hurt your knife
  • hurt for
  • hurt locker
  • hurt people hurt people
  • hurt someone's feelings
  • in a world of hurt
  • put a hurt on
  • retire hurt
  • what you don't know can't hurt you
  • where does it hurt

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