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hurt

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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.]

hurter n.

hurt1
vb hurts, hurting, hurt
1. to cause physical pain to (someone or something)
2. to cause emotional pain or distress to (someone)
3. to produce a painful sensation in (someone) the bruise hurts
4. (intr) Informal to feel pain
n
1. physical, moral, or mental pain or suffering
2. (Medicine) a wound, cut, or sore
3. damage or injury; harm
adj
injured or pained physically or emotionally a hurt knee a hurt look
[C12 hurten to hit, from Old French hurter to knock against, probably of Germanic origin; compare Old Norse hrūtr ram, Middle High German hurt a collision]
hurter  n

hurt2, whort [hwɜːt]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) Southern English dialect another name for whortleberry

hurt


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But Billy had done the right thing--done it slowly and imperturbably and with the least hurt to everybody.
Kindly callers hurt her, too, with the well-meant platitudes with which they strove to cover the nakedness of bereavement.
"Why, I've brought you to life," answered the boy "but it won't hurt you any, if you mind me and do as I tell you.
 
 
 
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