Hurt
[hɜːt] or [hɝt]
Definition
(verb.) give trouble or pain to; 'This exercise will hurt your back'.
(verb.) cause damage or affect negatively; 'Our business was hurt by the new competition'.
(verb.) hurt the feelings of; 'She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests'; 'This remark really bruised my ego'.
(verb.) feel physical pain; 'Were you hurting after the accident?'.
(adj.) damaged inanimate objects or their value .
(adj.) suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle; 'nursing his wounded arm'; 'ambulances...for the hurt men and women' .
Editor: Ronda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
(n.) A husk. See Husk, 2.
(imp. & p. p.) of Hurt
(v. t.) To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.
(v. t.) To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm.
(v. t.) To wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve.
Inputed by Jackson
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Injure, harm, damage, mar, impair, do harm to.[2]. Pain, wound, give pain to.
n. [1]. Harm, injury, damage, detriment, mischief, disadvantage.[2]. Wound, bruise.
Typist: Rodger
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Harm, injury, damage, wound, detriment, mischief
ANT:Benefit, pleasure
SYN:Wound, bruise, harm, injure, damage, pain, grieve
ANT:Heal, soothe, console, repair, reinstate, compensate, benefit
Typed by Felix
Definition
v.t. to cause bodily pain to: to damage: to wound as the feelings.—v.i. to give pain &c.:—pa.t. and pa.p. hurt.—n. a wound: injury.—n. Hurt′er that which hurts: a beam at the lower end of a gun-platform to save the parapet: a piece of iron or wood fixed to the top-rails of a gun-carriage to check its motion: the shoulder of an axle against which the hub strikes.—adj. Hurt′ful causing hurt or loss: mischievous.—adv. Hurt′fully.—n. Hurt′fulness.—adj. Hurt′less without hurt or injury harmless.—adv. Hurt′lessly.—n. Hurt′lessness.
Edited by Clare
Unserious Contents or Definition
If you hurt a person in your dreams, you will do ugly work, revenging and injuring. If you are hurt, you will have enemies who will overcome you.
Editor: Ozzie
Examples
- I do not think Flora would hurt a fly. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I'm glad Mas'r didn't go off this morning, as he looked to, said Tom; that ar hurt me more than sellin', it did. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- IF YOU WOULD FORGIVE YOUR ENEMY, says the Malay proverb, FIRST INFLICT A HURT ON HIM; and Lily was experiencing the truth of the apothegm. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I don't want to hurt your father. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Would he want to hurt you, do you mean? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Tom looked surprised, and rather hurt, and said, I never drink, Mas'r. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Beth's bundle was such a funny one that everybody wanted to laugh, but nobody did, for it would have hurt her feelings very much. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He laughed, trying to hold it in because the shaking hurt his arm. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There was a scream from the women all huddled in the doorway to look at us--a shout from the men--two of them down but not hurt. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Lacerations of the scalp (he probed--Does that hurt? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts--not to hurt others. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It hurts much and there is much hemorrhage inside. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is not because it hurts me, little Rawdon gasped out--only--only--sobs and tears wound up the sentence in a storm. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- You bet it hurts. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It is not that I have seen my good Amy attentive, and--ha--condescending to my old pensioner--it is not _that_ that hurts me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It hurts me very much to hear you speak so hopelessly, said Dorothea. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Fortunately no other hurts were suffered, and in a few minutes we had the train on the track and running again. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I know how that phrase Special Interests hurts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There was an insult in Gudrun's protective patronage that was really too hurting. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But the wall--the hedge--it is such hard work climbing, and you are too slender and young to help me without hurting yourself. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I've gone blindly on, hurting myself and other people, for the sake of money. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They are all of 'em as low and cruel to each other as they can be; there's no use in your suffering to keep from hurting them. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A man with the gout in his right hand--and everywhere else--can't expect to get through a Double Gloucester without hurting himself. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- However, Meyler spoiled my preferment with Ebrington by hurting his lordship's vanity and thus damping all his ardour. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It is possible thou wert hurt there once and now there is a scar that makes a further hurting. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- If the conductor be good and of sufficient bigness, the fluid passes through it without hurting it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Is your wound hurting you, Maurice? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Large quantities of shoes were made at reduced prices, but complaints were made as to the nails penetrating into the shoe and hurting the feet. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Edited by Cheryl