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hurt

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/hɜːt/
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/hɜːt/ · /hɝt/

Definition of hurt

14 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (intransitive, transitive)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.”
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verb

  1. (intransitive, transitive)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. (intransitive, transitive)To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
    “He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.”
    “The insult hurt.”
  3. (intransitive, stative)To be painful.
    “Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.”
  4. (intransitive, transitive)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.”
    “It wouldn't hurt to check the weather forecast and find out if it's going to rain.”
    “He that hath eeris, here he, what the spirit seith to the chirchis. He that ouercometh, schal not be hirt of the secounde deth.”
    “The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge”

adj

  1. Wounded, physically injured.
  2. Feeling physical or emotional pain.

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)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. (archaic, countable, uncountable)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”
    “The pains of sickness and hurts […] all men feel.”
  3. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Injury; damage; detriment; harm
    “Thou dost me yet but little hurt.”
  4. (countable, uncountable)A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
  5. (countable, uncountable)A husk.
  6. A roundel azure (blue circular spot).

name

  1. (uncountable)A town in Virginia.
  2. (countable)A surname.

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Etymology

From Middle English hurten, hirten, hertan (“to injure, scathe, knock together”), from Old Northern French hurter ("to ram into, strike, collide with"; > Modern French heurter), perhaps from Frankish *hūrt…

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From Middle English hurten, hirten, hertan (“to injure, scathe, knock together”), from Old Northern French hurter ("to ram into, strike, collide with"; > Modern French heurter), perhaps from Frankish *hūrt (“a battering ram”), cognate with Welsh hwrdd (“ram”) and Cornish hordh (“ram”). Compare Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (“to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”); however, the earliest instances of the verb in Middle English are as old as those found in Old French, which leads to the possibility that the Middle English word may instead be a reflex of an unrecorded Old English *hyrtan, which later merged with the Old French verb. Germanic cognates include Dutch horten (“to push against, strike”), Middle Low German hurten (“to run at, collide with”), Middle High German hurten (“to push, bump, attack, storm, invade”), Old Norse hrútr (“battering ram”). Alternate etymology traces Old Northern French hurter rather to Old Norse hrútr (“ram (male sheep)”), lengthened-grade variant of hjǫrtr (“stag”), from Proto-Germanic *herutuz, *herutaz (“hart, male deer”), which would relate it to English hart (“male deer”). See hart.

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