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hurter

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hurt

  [hurt] verb, hurt, hurt⋅ing, noun, adjective
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–verb (used with object)
1. to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
2. to cause bodily pain to or in: The wound still hurts him.
3. 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.
4. to affect adversely; harm: to hurt one's reputation; It wouldn't hurt the lawn if you watered it more often.
5. to cause mental pain to; offend or grieve: She hurt his feelings by not asking him to the party.
–verb (used without object)
6. to feel or suffer bodily or mental pain or distress: My back still hurts.
7. to cause bodily or mental pain or distress: The blow to his pride hurt most.
8. to cause injury, damage, or harm.
9. to suffer want or need.
–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.) ME hurten, hirten, herten to injure, damage, stumble, knock together, appar. < OF hurter to knock (against), oppose (cf. F heurter, orig. dial.), prob. a v. deriv. of Frankish *hûrt ram, c. ON hrūtr; (n.) ME < OF, deriv. of the v.

Related forms:
hurt⋅a⋅ble, adjective
hurter, noun

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

    1. To cause distress or damage: Parental neglect hurts.

    2. 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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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