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Hurt   /hərt/   Listen
Hurt

verb
(past & past part. hurt; pres. part. hurting)
1.
Be the source of pain.  Synonyms: ache, smart.
2.
Give trouble or pain to.
3.
Cause emotional anguish or make miserable.  Synonyms: anguish, pain.
4.
Cause damage or affect negatively.  Synonym: injure.
5.
Hurt the feelings of.  Synonyms: bruise, injure, offend, spite, wound.  "This remark really bruised my ego"
6.
Feel physical pain.  Synonyms: ache, suffer.
7.
Feel pain or be in pain.  Synonym: suffer.  Antonym: be well.
adjective
1.
Suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle.  Synonym: wounded.  "Ambulances...for the hurt men and women"
2.
Damaged inanimate objects or their value.  Synonym: weakened.
noun
1.
Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc..  Synonyms: harm, injury, trauma.
2.
Psychological suffering.  Synonyms: distress, suffering.
3.
Feelings of mental or physical pain.  Synonym: suffering.
4.
A damage or loss.  Synonym: detriment.
5.
The act of damaging something or someone.  Synonyms: damage, harm, scathe.



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"Hurt" Quotes from Famous Books



... vinum daemonum, because it fireth the imagination; and yet, it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt; such as we spake of before. But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments, and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the ...
— Essays - The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. - Verulam Viscount St. Albans • Francis Bacon

... too bad of you." The Fairy's voice sounded quietly in his ear. "You lost your temper because things did not go just to suit you. Even if you are a prince, the world cannot always run just to suit your whims. What's worse, you hurt a poor creature who loves you. I don't think that's being the sort of a prince your father would be proud of, ...
— Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) - Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales • Various

... at home with her mother—the old lady should be wheeled to the meeting-house, even if against her inclinations. As for the services being bad for Simon Jefferson's weak heart,—she did not think they would hurt his heart or that it would matter if they did. Visible, flesh-and-blood presence was needful to uphold the institution, and Grace would have given more for one body resting upright in a pew, than for a hundred members who were there only "in ...
— Fran • John Breckenridge Ellis

... the basket is arranged. There will be a chicken for you and one for me; a box of fudge for you and one for me; and so on through the entire menu. Aunt Harriet is very much afraid that some girl will have her feelings hurt or feel slighted. Open up the basket, Hester. I must take off this waist. The collar hurts me. It always was too high. I'll feel more comfortable in ...
— Hester's Counterpart - A Story of Boarding School Life • Jean K. Baird

... hurt none, is she? That was a close shave—closer, a pile, than I'd want to have myself. Some savage critter, that bull. And if Dakota Joe's gal wasn't a crack shot that young lady would sure been throwed higher ...
— Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest - Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies • Alice B. Emerson


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