Pronunciation Verb
hurt (hurts, present participle hurting; past and past participle hurt)
- (intransitive) To be painful.
- Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.
- (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
- If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset.
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
- (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
- This latest gaffe hurts the legislator’s reelection prospects still further.
- Copying and pasting identical portions of source code hurts maintainability, because the programmer has to keep all those copies synchronized.
- French: faire mal
- German: weh tun, schmerzen
- Italian: dolere, fare male
- Portuguese: doer
- Russian: боле́ть
- Spanish: doler
- French: blesser
- German: verletzen
- Italian: ferire
- Portuguese: ferir, machucar, aleijar
- Russian: причиня́ть боль
- Spanish: lastimar, hacer daño
hurt
Synonyms Translations- French: blessé
- German: verletzt
- Italian: ferito
- Portuguese: machucado, ferido
- Russian: ра́неный
- Spanish: herido
- Russian: оби́женный
- Spanish: dolido
hurt (plural hurts)
- An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
- how to overcome old hurts of the past
- (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
- 1605, Shakespeare, King Lear vii
- I have received a hurt.
- 1693, [John Locke], “§107”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], OCLC 1161614482 ↗:
- The pains of sickness and hurts […] all men feel.
- 1605, Shakespeare, King Lear vii
- (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm
- 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene ii]:
- Thou dost me yet but little hurt.
- (heraldiccharge) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
- (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
- A husk.
Hurt
Proper noun
- (uncountable) A town in Virginia.
- (countable) Surname
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