hurt

UK /hɜːt/ US /hɜːt/
noun 6verb 4adj 2name 2

Definitions

verb

1

To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.

If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset.

This injection might hurt a little. Your arm will be hurting you for a while.

2

To cause (somebody) emotional pain.

He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.

The insult hurt.

3

To be painful.

Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.

4

To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.

This latest gaffe hurts the legislator’s reelection prospects still further.

Copying and pasting identical portions of source code hurts maintainability, because the programmer has to keep all those copies synchronized.

adj

1

Wounded, physically injured.

2

Feeling physical or emotional pain.

noun

1

An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.

how to overcome old hurts of the past

Jules Rimet still gleaming Thirty years of hurt Never stopped me dreaming

2

A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.

I have received a hurt.

The cause is a temperate conglutination ; for both bodies are clammy and viscous , and do bridle the deflux of humours to the hurts , without penning them in too much

3

Injury; damage; detriment; harm

Thou dost me yet but little hurt.

4

A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.

5

A husk.

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