| hurt (hûrt) v. hurt, hurt·ing, hurts v.tr. 1. To cause physical damage or pain to; injure. 2. To cause mental or emotional suffering to; distress. 3. To cause physical damage to; harm: The frost hurt the orange crop. 4. To be detrimental to; hinder or impair: The scandal hurt the candidate's chances for victory. v.intr. 1. To have or produce a feeling of physical pain or discomfort: My leg hurts. 2. a. To cause distress or damage: Parental neglect hurts. b. To have an adverse effect: "It never hurt to have a friend at court" (Tom Clancy). 3. Informal To experience distress, especially of a financial kind; be in need: "Even in a business that's hurting there's always a guy who can make a buck" (New York). n. 1. Something that hurts; a pain, injury, or wound. 2. Mental suffering; anguish: getting over the hurt of reading the letter. 3. A wrong; harm: What hurt have you done to them? [Middle English hurten, possibly from Old French hurter, to bang into, perhaps of Germanic origin.] hurt  er n. |
hurter [ˈhɜːtə]
n
an object or part that gives protection, such as a concrete block that protects a building from traffic or the shoulder of an axle against which the hub strikes
[C14 hurtour, from Old French hurtoir something that knocks or strikes, from hurter to hurt1]
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