hurt
adjective
1. suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle
- ambulances...for the hurt men and women
Similar word(s): injured, wounded
2. damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value
noun
1. any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
Similar word(s): harm, injury, trauma
Definition categories: state, unhealthiness
2. psychological suffering
Similar word(s): distress, suffering
Definition categories: feeling, pain, painfulness
3. feelings of mental or physical pain
Similar word(s): suffering
Definition categories: feeling, pain, painfulness
4. a damage or loss
Similar word(s): detriment
Definition categories: event, damage, harm, impairment
5. the act of damaging something or someone
Similar word(s): damage, harm, scathe
Definition categories: act
verb
1. be the source of pain
Definition categories: perception
2. give trouble or pain to
- This exercise will hurt your back
Definition categories: body, indispose
3. cause emotional anguish or make miserable
Similar word(s): anguish, pain
Definition categories: emotion, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune, upset
4. cause damage or affect negatively
- Our business was hurt by the new competition
Similar word(s): injure
Definition categories: change, damage
5. hurt the feelings of
- She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests
Similar word(s): bruise, injure, offend, spite, wound
Definition categories: emotion, arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise
6. feel physical pain
- Were you hurting after the accident?
Definition categories: perception, comprehend, perceive
7. feel pain or be in pain
Similar word(s): suffer
Definition categories: body, be
Sentences with hurt as a verb:
- Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.
- If anybody hurts my little brother I will get upset.
- This latest gaffe hurts the MP's reelection prospects still further.