Sekirov Dictionary

hurt

UK /hɜːt/US /hɝt/

noun 6
verb 4
adjective 2
forms 8
phrases 3

noun6

•
a painful feeling of sadness or shame after someone has been unkind or unfair
- how to overcome old hurts of the past
A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
A husk.
•
(no longer used) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
- I have received a hurt. — 1603
•
(no longer used) Injury; damage; detriment; harm
- Thou dost me yet but little hurt. — 1610

verb4

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To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
- If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset.
- This injection might hurt a little. Your arm will be hurting you for a while.
•
To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
- He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.
- The insult hurt.
•
To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.
- 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.
•
To be painful.
- Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.

adjective2

Wounded, physically injured.
Feeling physical or emotional pain.

forms

hurted · hurtedst · hurting · hurteth · hurts · hurtest · more hurt · most hurt

Phrases with hurt

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