hurt
Plural: hurts
Noun
- any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
- psychological suffering
- feelings of mental or physical pain
- a damage or loss
- the act of damaging something or someone
- An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
- A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
- Injury; damage; detriment; harm
- A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
- A husk.
- A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
Verb
Verb Forms: hurt, hurting, hurts
- To cause pain, injury, or damage.
- be the source of pain
- give trouble or pain to
- "This exercise will hurt your back"
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- cause damage or affect negatively
- "Our business was hurt by the new competition"
- hurt the feelings of
- "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"
- feel physical pain
- "Were you hurting after the accident?"
- feel pain or be in pain
- To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
- To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
- To be painful.
- To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.
Adjective Satellite
- suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle
- "ambulances...for the hurt men and women"
- damaged inanimate objects or their value
Adj
- Wounded, physically injured.
- Feeling physical or emotional pain.
Examples
- Copying and pasting identical portions of source code hurts maintainability, because the programmer has to keep all those copies synchronized.
- Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.
- He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.
- how to overcome old hurts of the past
- If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset.
- It really hurts when you miss a triple word score opportunity in Scrabble.
- It wouldn't hurt to check the weather forecast and find out if it's going to rain.
- The insult hurt.
- This injection might hurt a little. Your arm will hurting you for a while.
- This latest gaffe hurts the legislator’s reelection prospects still further.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
ache, anguish, bruise, damage, detriment, distress, harm, injure, injury, offend, pain, scathe, smart, spite, suffer, suffering, trauma, weakened, wound, wounded, abasement, abuse, achesome, aching, achy, afflict, affront, aggrieve, agonize, annoy, banged up, behedge, bewound, blunt, burn, carry, crocked, cut down, damnify, delay, dere, difficult, diminish, dis, disgrace, dishonour, disrespect, diss, do damage to, do for, do ill, do violence to, embarrassment, excruciate, forestay, forslow, forwork, frustrate, fucked up, get in the way, gimped, give stick, griefful, grieve, hamper, handicap, harrow, heckle, hinder, hold up, humiliation, hurt, hurt someone's feelings, hurty, ignominy, imbrued, impair, impede, incommode, injured, insult, interfere, intervene, irritate, jacked up, lapidate, lesion, lessen, let, mar, maul, messed up, misbid, misdo, misrespect, misuse, mortification, obloquy, obstruct, opprobrium, overslaugh, pained, painfilled, painful, pang, passion, pine, preclude, prevene, prevent, prohibit, put someone in hospital, qualifier, rack, raw, reduce, restrict, retard, scaith, scath, shame, sledge, slight, slow down, smartful, smarting, sneap, sore, stay, tender, thole, throe, thwart, thwarten, tore up, torment, tormented, torture, umbeset, undermine, unhonour, vulnerate, vulnerated, wark, weaken, wet, worsen, wring
Scrabble Score: 7
hurt: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhurt: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hurt: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary