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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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Slang Dictionary
hurt

  1. mod.
    very ugly; damaged and ugly. (Streets. Similar to hurting.) : That poor girl is really bad hurt.
  2. 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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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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