hurt
Part of speech: verb
adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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.
Inflected forms:
form: hurts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hurting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hurt
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hurt
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: hurt
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: hurt
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: hurt
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: hurt
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: hurtest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: hurt
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: hurtedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: hurts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hurteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: hurt
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: hurt
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: hurt
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: hurt
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: hurt
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: hurt
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: hurting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hurt
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: more hurt
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hurt
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hurts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.
The insult hurt.
gloss: To be painful.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
stative
examples: Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.
gloss: To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: 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
gloss: Wounded, physically injured.
pos: adj
gloss: Feeling physical or emotional pain.
pos: adj
gloss: An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: how to overcome old hurts of the past
Jules Rimet still gleaming
Thirty years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming
gloss: A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Injury; damage; detriment; harm
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Thou dost me yet but little hurt.
gloss: A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A husk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: ache
afflict
aggrieve
agonize
anguish
dere
excruciate
hurt
irritate
pang
pine
rack
throe
torment
torture
wring
Antonyms: alleviate
analgesize
comfort
dave
ease
heal
relieve
soothe
benumb
numb
Related words: ache
agonizing
harm
pain
suffer
hurty
Derived words: did my back hurt your knife
hurtability
hurtable
hurtee
hurt for
hurtle
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
hurt people hurt people
butt hurt
butt-hurt
hurt locker
retire hurt
unhurt
church hurt
hurtbox
hurtcore
hurtful
hurtless
hurtsome
in a world of hurt
put a hurt on
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