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verb (used with object)

to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.

to cause bodily pain to or in: The wound still hurts him.

to damage or decrease the efficiency of (a material object) by striking, rough use, improper care, etc.: Moths can't hurt this suit because it's mothproof. Dirty oil can hurt a car's engine.

to affect adversely; harm: to hurt one's reputation; It wouldn't hurt the lawn if you watered it more often.

to cause mental pain to; offend or grieve: She hurt his feelings by not asking him to the party.

verb (used without object)

to feel or suffer bodily or mental pain or distress: My back still hurts.

to cause bodily or mental pain or distress: The blow to his pride hurt most.

to cause injury, damage, or harm.

to suffer want or need.

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noun

10.

a blow that inflicts a wound; bodily injury or the cause of such injury.

11.

injury, damage, or harm.

12.

the cause of mental pain or offense, as an insult.

13.

Heraldry. a rounded azure.

adjective

14.

physically injured: The hurt child was taken to the hospital.

15.

offended; unfavorably affected: hurt pride.

16.

suggesting that one has been offended or is suffering in mind: Take that hurt look off your face!

17.

damaged: hurt merchandise.

Origin:
1150–1200; (v.) Middle English hurten, hirten, herten to injure, damage, stumble, knock together, apparently < Old French hurter to knock (against), oppose (compare French heurter, orig. dial.), probably a verbal derivative of Frankish *hûrt ram, cognate with Old Norse hrūtr; (noun) Middle English < Old French, derivative of the v.

Related forms

hurt·a·ble, adjective

hurt·er, noun

un·hurt, adjective

un·hurt·ing, adjective

Synonyms
3. mar, impair. 5. afflict, wound. 6. ache. 10. See injury. 12. cut, slight.

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Example Sentences

Some teachers worry that using red ink to grade a paper seems harsh, that it might hurt a student's feelings.

If you're hurt enough, there ain't nothing for it but to heal.

Federal protection of endangered or threatened plants and animals is supposed to help their conservation, not hurt it.

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Some teachers worry that using red ink to grade a paper seems harsh, that it might hurt a student's feelings.

If you're hurt enough, there ain't nothing for it but to heal.

Federal protection of endangered or threatened plants and animals is supposed to help their conservation, not hurt it.

Government report says snowmobiling, maple syrup, and lobster fishing are being hurt by climate change.

But having an extra curry dish here and there couldn't hurt.

Light frost doesn't hurt cabbage, but harvest and store before heavy freezes occur.

Fears of chipped teeth, hurt feelings and other injuries, which could lead to the biggest baddies of them all: lawsuits.

Cuts of this sort will hurt elite public universities in the short term.

Capping microfinance interest rates will hurt the poor.

It hurt to break the bone, and it certainly hurt to cut the nerve.

Gossip is therefore one of the best methods to hurt your opponent.

How they are treated horribly and are killed and hurt.

Putting the brakes on music gaming would hurt everyone in the ailing music industry.

News methodology has really hurt the rankings of public colleges.

Asia's export-led economies have been hurt by the collapse in global demand.

People can get hurt and their dead bodies on the streets create an ugly scene.

Be careful, you might hurt the entire earth by your foolish actions.

Now, you decide one day you're going to do a whole satirical play on all the stupid things people do to hurt themselves.

It's common knowledge that the recession has hurt job prospects for college graduates.

Even drugs that do not kill people may still hurt them.

When he was a toddler he complained to his mother that some kids had roughed him up and hurt his feelings.

But when they do, the public and the country get hurt.

You're not bringing in all these non-indigenous species that are eventually going to take over or hurt the ecosystem.

Twenty years from now the answer may be different but for now it will hurt your chances of landing the jobs you really want.

Interest-rate cuts hurt savers' incomes even as they make borrowers better off.

But that tiger in a given situation where it's instinct is going to override your training-somebody is going to get hurt.

She has never hurt my cat, although she still enjoys chasing her.

How terribly tragic, another example of the poorest among us being deceived and hurt.

Doubts about the rule of law have already hurt the country.

But she is going to hurt not only a dog, but a human who tried to intervene.

Raising gas taxes would hurt those in the cities as much as others.

Please come hang out with us, but it wouldn't hurt anyones feelings if you don't move here.

Its mostly agricultural economy has been hurt by droughts and political instability.

Overfishing and environmental damage have decimated ocean inhabitants-and climate change threatens to hurt them even more.

What's that old saying about you can't get hurt falling, it's the landing.

How people's impulse to protect themselves from poisons can actually hurt the.

Failing to keep yourself safe gets you hurt or dead.

Elephants will physically support a sick or hurt relative trying to walk.

It is hard to separate out the impact of broader economic worries, but certain businesses have clearly been hurt by war fears.

Therefore, people should not kill them or hurt them.

Each pledges not to hurt the other's people and to unite in defense against the other's enemies.

All good parents are convinced that they would do anything to keep their kids safe, and would never do anything to hurt them.

Both papers help tell us why oil shocks hurt much less than they used to.

By the time it fizzled out, it had hurt nine people.

It sure can not hurt us economically to reduce oil imports or lower the cost of doing business either.

It could potentially hurt her to expend the energy necessary to keep moving it along with all the others.

There's no hard evidence that ethanol will hurt the engines of older vehicles.

College athletes who get hurt while training or competing are often responsible for thousands of dollars in unpaid.

Since construction and related housing industries tend to be labour-intensive, reduction in expenditure here has hurt job growth.

They can also carry diseases that hurt animals and humans.

The example of the admin who blocks everything is overly restrictive and draconic and will ultimately hurt productivity.

Megapixels aren't everything, but it certainly couldn't hurt to have more.

It would likely hurt you if you can't make the case that the experience has a connection to the outside world.

Often enough, the owners pay ransom and nobody gets hurt.

It's only a matter of time before a child is hurt or worse.

Don't worry, they are safe and don't hurt the animals.

The trend could hurt spending on higher education, among other state budget lines.

Agreeing on principles for openness and perhaps even standards at this stage would benefit some firms and hurt others.

It also doesn't hurt to have another backup energy option.

Except for possibly the rarest of exceptions, you won't get hurt and you certainly won't get killed.

Some said their businesses were severely hurt by false, and often retaliatory, complaints published on the site.

And, there are other hurt feelings mixed up in this relationship that make me want to keep my distance a bit.

One of the major concerns cited was that trying to reduce the nation's gas emissions could hurt the economy.

Nope, can't build those, it might hurt the desert tortoise.

If any of these things have hurt business, though, it's hard to see how.

Although the lawsuit was eventually settled, there are still some raw nerves and hurt feelings.

Forty-eight percent of students reported that they had been hurt by required editions published exclusively for their.

Nobody has been hurt and the damage has been minor, but the risk of a huge explosion is great.

Only a small portion of the population was hurt or killed.

But it turns out that what happens beyond our limited network horizon can still hurt us.

Hi job-seekers, you are hurt badly, but you can be healed.

Loans to property developers are riskier and banks' profits will be hurt as developers go bust.

The collars do not hurt the caribou-the animals don't even know they are wearing them.

Research had focused on whether the monarc's chose different milkweeds to hurt their enemies.

What's certain is that the only people being hurt in this slap-fest are the customers.

If it's a public school, your experience with state vocational rehab certainly couldn't hurt.

They worried that icebreakers and drill ships would hurt the bowhead whales on which they depend.

Most people hurt by lightning while inside their homes are talking on the telephone at the time.

And pitchers accounted for almost two-thirds of all the time spent too hurt to play.

It dosen't hurt to say please, thank you and excuse.

Every few years, an accident happens and people get hurt.

Spend too many hours obsessing and it really will hurt your career.

Finally three people fell and hurt themselves while paddling over the slippery granite.

Of particular concern is the release of volatile organic compounds, gases that can hurt the environment and human health.

About a third of the doctors told patients that the pills might help and certainly won't hurt.

And it doesn't hurt that this is the cheapest bag of the bunch.

Feelings of hurt and maybe even betrayal that it hasn't worked out, check.

These highly endangered sea mammals have been hurt by decades of overhunting.

Johnson was skeptical but his dentist said it wouldn't hurt a bit.

To be sure, some states have mismanaged their finances and hurt their public universities in the process.

Greece's economy isn't big enough to hurt its tradepartners and have it come back to hurt itself.

But opponents argue the turbines would be unsightly and would hurt the local environment and economy.

Perhaps women are able to hurt someone more viciously.

One person is said to have been killed and a dozen hurt.

The little sister, however, was dreadfully frightened when she saw that her fawn was hurt.

But it couldn`t hurt to be more accurate on some of them.

It also minimised the risk of currency instability: a unilateral rate cut by one central bank could have hurt its currency.

It may seem as if the world's oceans are so vast that nothing could hurt them.

Pheromones also brighten moods: one scientist had a flask filled with skin cell extracts from skiiers who hurt their needs.

But it will also hurt all business that require landlines, as bills rise and business models are disrupted.

Our feelings really hurt inside for treating us worse than the enemy".

The old man was badly hurt while his two grandchildren were killed.

Their rapidly depleting natural resource base will hurt them greatly in the long term.

Yet her life is a blues story, not for any hurt that came her way but because of her determination to move on to something better.

Gutting believes that the boycott campaign will hurt only legitimate fishermen.

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World English Dictionary

hurt¹ (hɜːt)

—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.	informal (intr) to feel pain

—n
5.	physical, moral, or mental pain or suffering
6.	a wound, cut, or sore
7.	damage or injury; harm

—*adj*
8.	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]

'hurter¹

—n

hurt or whort² (hɜːt, hwɜːt)

—n
	dialect (Southern English) another name for whortleberry

whort or whort²

—n

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Word Origin & History

hurt

c.1200, from O.Fr. hurter "to ram, strike, collide," perhaps from Frank. *hurt (cf. M.H.G. hurten "run at, collide," O.N. hrutr "ram"). Sense of "injury" is purely an Eng. development. Sense of "knock" died out 17c., but cf. hurtle.

Slang Dictionary

hurt definition

mod.
very ugly; damaged and ugly. (Streets. Similar to hurting.) : That poor girl is really bad hurt.
mod.
drug intoxicated. (Streets.) : Gert was really hurt and nodding and drooling.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

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see not hurt a fly.

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