hurt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hû(r)t
ipa: /hɜːt/
enpr: hûrt
ipa: /hɝt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: hurts
form: hurting
form: hurt
form: hurt
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: hurt
form: hurt
form: hurt
form: hurt
form: hurtest
form: hurt
form: hurtedst
form: hurts
form: hurteth
form: hurt
form: hurt
form: hurt
form: hurt
form: hurt
form: hurt
form: -
form: hurting
form: hurt
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: If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset.
text: This injection might hurt a little. Your arm will be hurting you for a while.
synonyms: word: dere
word: injure
word: wound
word: abuse
word: annoy
word: bewound
word: damage
word: damnify
word: dere
word: do damage to
word: do for
word: do ill
word: do violence to
word: forwork
word: grieve
word: harm
word: harrow
word: hurt
word: injure
word: maul
word: misdo
word: put someone in hospital
word: scaith
word: scathe
word: vulnerate
word: wet
word: wound
glosses: To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
examples: text: He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.
text: The insult hurt.
synonyms: word: affront
word: wound
word: abuse
word: affront
word: burn
word: carry
word: cut down
word: disrespect
word: dis
word: diss
word: give stick
word: heckle
word: hurt someone's feelings
word: insult
word: lapidate
word: qualifier
word: misbid
word: misrespect
word: misuse
word: offend
word: sledge
word: slight
word: sneap
word: wound
glosses: To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
examples: text: Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.
synonyms: word: ache
word: smart
word: ache
word: agonize
word: anguish
word: hurt
word: pain
word: passion
word: suffer
word: thole
word: throe
word: wark
word: wring
glosses: To be painful.
examples: text: This latest gaffe hurts the legislator’s reelection prospects still further.
text: Copying and pasting identical portions of source code hurts maintainability, because the programmer has to keep all those copies synchronized.
text: It wouldn't hurt to check the weather forecast and find out if it's going to rain.
text: He that hath eeris, here he, what the spirit seith to the chirchis. He that ouercometh, schal not be hirt of the secounde deth.
ref: c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume IV (in Middle English), Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Apocalypse II:11, page 643, column 1:
english: He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
translation: He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
text: The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge
ref: 1568, William Cornishe, “A treatise betwene Trouth, and Information”, in J[ohn] S[tow], editor, Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate, London, →OCLC; republished as Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth, London: Printed for C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, 1736, →OCLC, page 290:
synonyms: word: mar
word: thwart
word: behedge
word: blunt
word: delay
word: difficult
word: diminish
word: forestay
word: interfere
word: intervene
word: forslow
word: frustrate
word: get in the way
word: hamper
word: handicap
word: hinder
word: hold up
word: hurt
word: impair
word: impede
word: incommode
word: lessen
word: let
word: mar
word: obstruct
word: overslaugh
word: preclude
word: prevene
word: prevent
word: prohibit
word: reduce
word: restrict
word: retard
word: slow down
word: stay
word: stymie
word: thwart
word: thwarten
word: umbeset
word: undermine
word: weaken
word: worsen
glosses: To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.
Synonyms: word: ache
word: afflict
word: aggrieve
word: agonize
word: anguish
word: dere
word: excruciate
word: hurt
word: irritate
word: pang
word: pine
word: rack
word: throe
word: torment
word: torture
word: wring
Hypernyms: word: affect
word: inflict
word: produce sensation
Hyponyms: word: flagellate
word: lash
word: martyr
word: scourge
word: whip
Derived terms: did my back hurt your knife
hurtability
hurtable
hurtee
hurt for
hurtle
hurt people hurt people
hurt someone's feelings
Hurtville
megahurt
what you don't know can't hurt you
where does it hurt
who hurt you
would it hurt
wouldn't hurt a fly
Related terms: word: ache
word: agonizing
word: harm
word: pain
word: suffer