hurting

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?

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[Middle English hurten, possibly from Old French hurter, to bang into, perhaps of Germanic origin.]

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hurter n.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

hurting - a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; "the patient developed severe pain and distension" pain symptom - (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease ache, aching - a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain excruciation, suffering, agony - a state of acute pain arthralgia - pain in a joint or joints burn, burning - pain that feels hot as if it were on fire causalgia - a burning pain in a limb along the course of a peripheral nerve; usually associated with skin changes colic, gripes, griping, intestinal colic - acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) chest pain - pain in the chest chiralgia - a pain in the hand that is not traumatic distress - extreme physical pain; "the patient appeared to be in distress" dysmenorrhea - painful menstruation glossalgia, glossodynia - pain in the tongue growing pains - pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth haemorrhoid, hemorrhoid, piles - pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter keratalgia - pain in the cornea labor pain - pain and discomfort associated with contractions of the uterus during labor mastalgia - pain in the breast melagra - rheumatic or myalgic pains in the arms or legs meralgia - pain in the thigh metralgia - pain in the uterus myalgia, myodynia - pain in a muscle or group of muscles nephralgia - pain in the kidney (usually felt in the loins) neuralgia, neuralgy - acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves odynophagia - severe pain on swallowing due to a disorder of the esophagus orchidalgia - pain in the testes pang - a sharp spasm of pain pang, sting - a mental pain or distress; "a pang of conscience" photalgia, photophobia - pain in the eye resulting from exposure to bright light (often associated with albinism) costalgia, pleuralgia, pleurodynia - pain in the chest caused by inflammation of the muscles between the ribs podalgia - foot pain proctalgia - pain in the rectum referred pain - pain that is felt at a place in the body different from the injured or diseased part where the pain would be expected; "angina pectoris can cause referred pain in the left shoulder"; "pain in the right shoulder can be referred pain from gallbladder disease" renal colic - sharp pain in the lower back that radiates into the groin; associated with the passage of a renal calculus through the ureter smart, smarting, smartness - a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore sting, stinging - a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung; "the sting of death"; "he felt the stinging of nettles" stitch - a sharp spasm of pain in the side resulting from running soreness, tenderness, rawness - a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched); "the best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness"; "after taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on" thermalgesia - pain caused by heat throb - a deep pulsating type of pain torment, torture - unbearable physical pain ulalgia - pain in the gums urodynia - pain during urination