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Hurt
Definitions
- 1 Wounded, physically injured.
- 2 Feeling physical or emotional pain.
- 1 damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value wordnet
- 2 suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle wordnet
- 1 A town in Virginia. uncountable
- 2 A surname. countable
- 1 An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience. countable, uncountable
"how to overcome old hurts of the past"
- 2 A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
- 3 the act of damaging something or someone wordnet
- 4 A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise. archaic, countable, uncountable
"I have received a hurt."
- 5 a damage or loss wordnet
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- 6 Injury; damage; detriment; harm archaic, countable, uncountable
"Thou dost me yet but little hurt."
- 7 feelings of mental or physical pain wordnet
- 8 A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions. countable, uncountable
- 9 psychological suffering wordnet
- 10 A husk. countable, uncountable
- 11 any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury wordnet
- 1 To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury. intransitive, transitive
"If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset."
- 2 give trouble or pain to wordnet
- 3 To cause (somebody) emotional pain. intransitive, transitive
"He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited."
- 4 be in pain wordnet
- 5 To be painful. intransitive, stative
"Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better."
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- 6 cause damage or affect negatively wordnet
- 7 To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede. intransitive, transitive
"This latest gaffe hurts the legislator’s reelection prospects still further."
- 8 cause emotional anguish or make miserable wordnet
- 9 hurt the feelings of wordnet
- 10 be the source of pain wordnet
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.
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.
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.
Unclear. Suggestions include: from its resemblance to a blue hurtleberry, or from French heurt (a blow, leaving a blue bruise), the latter of which would make it a doublet of hurt Etymology 1; compare the theories about golpe (“purple roundel”)).
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