hurt

1. 1

   To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.intransitivetransitive

   • 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.
2. 2

   To cause (somebody) emotional pain.intransitivetransitive

   • He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.
   • The insult hurt.
3. 3

   To be painful.intransitivestative

   • Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.
4. 4

   To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.intransitivetransitive

   • 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.

syn. ache · afflict · aggrieve · agonize · anguish · dere · excruciate · hurt · irritate · pang · pine · rack

ant. alleviate · analgesize · comfort · dave · ease · heal · relieve · soothe

1. 1

   Wounded, physically injured.

2. 2

   Feeling physical or emotional pain.

1. 1

   An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.countableuncountable

   • how to overcome old hurts of the past
2. 2

   A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.archaiccountableuncountable

   • I have received a hurt.
   • The cause is a temperate conglutination ; for both bodies are clammy and viscous , and do bridle the deflux of humours to the hurts , without penning them in too much
3. 3

   Injury; damage; detriment; harmarchaiccountableuncountable

   • Thou dost me yet but little hurt.
4. 4

   A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.countableuncountable

5. 5

   A husk.countableuncountable

1. 1

   A roundel azure (blue circular spot).