hurt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hû(r)t
ipa: /hɜːt/
enpr: hûrt
ipa: /hɝt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: hurts
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 (“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.
Senses: examples: text: how to overcome old hurts of the past
text: Jules Rimet still gleaming
Thirty years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming
ref: 1996, “Three Lions”, performed by David Baddiel and Frank Skinner:
synonyms: word: embarrassment
word: ignominy
word: abasement
word: disgrace
word: dishonour
word: embarrassment
word: humiliation
word: hurt
word: ignominy
word: mortification
word: obloquy
word: opprobrium
word: shame
word: unhonour
glosses: An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
examples: text: I have received a hurt.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act VII, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
text: 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
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: The pains of sickness and hurts […] all men feel.
ref: 1693, [John Locke], “§107”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: injury
word: wound
word: scath
word: scathe
word: lesion
word: dere
glosses: A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
examples: text: Thou dost me yet but little hurt.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: Injury; damage; detriment; harm
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
glosses: A husk.
Derived terms: hurtbox
hurtcore
hurtful
hurtless
hurtsome
in a world of hurt
put a hurt on
Related terms: hurty