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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To cause physical damage or pain to; injure.
  2. v. To cause mental or emotional suffering to; distress.
  3. v. To cause physical damage to; harm: The frost hurt the orange crop.
  4. v. To be detrimental to; hinder or impair: The scandal hurt the candidate's chances for victory.
  5. v. To have or produce a feeling of physical pain or discomfort: My leg hurts.
  6. v. To cause distress or damage: Parental neglect hurts.
  7. v. To have an adverse effect: "It never hurt to have a friend at court” ( Tom Clancy).
  8. v. Informal To experience distress, especially of a financial kind; be in need: "Even in a business that's hurting there's always a guy who can make a buck” ( New York).
  9. n. Something that hurts; a pain, injury, or wound.
  10. n. Mental suffering; anguish: getting over the hurt of reading the letter.
  11. n. A wrong; harm: What hurt have you done to them?

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To knock, hit, or dash against, so as to wound or pain; inflict suffering upon. To injure physically; give physical pain to; wound.
  2. To give mental pain to; wound or injure in mind or feelings; grieve; distress.
  3. In general, to do harm or mischief to; affect injuriously; endamage.
  4. To cause injury, harm, or pain of any kind, mental or physical.
  5. To rush with violence.
  6. n. An injury, especially one that gives physical or mental pain, as a wound, bruise, insult, etc.; in general, damage; impairment; detriment; harm.
  7. n. Synonyms Harm, Mischief, etc. See injury.
  8. n. The huckleberry, particularly Vaccinium Myrtillus.
  9. n. In heraldry, a roundel azure, representing the huckleberry.
  10. n. Contracted third person singular indicative present for hurteth.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To be painful.
  2. v. To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
  3. v. To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
  4. adj. Wounded, physically injured.
  5. adj. Pained.
  6. n. A wound or pain.
  7. n. A roundel azure (blue circular spot).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
  2. n. A husk. See husk, 2.
  3. v. To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.
  4. v. To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm.
  5. v. To wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. cause emotional anguish or make miserable
  2. adj. damaged inanimate objects or their value
  3. v. give trouble or pain to
  4. adj. suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle
  5. n. psychological suffering
  6. n. feelings of mental or physical pain
  7. n. the act of damaging something or someone
  8. v. feel pain or be in pain
  9. v. be the source of pain
  10. n. a damage or loss
  11. v. feel physical pain
  12. n. any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
  13. v. cause damage or affect negatively
  14. v. hurt the feelings of

Etymologies

  1. Middle English hurten, possibly from Old French hurter, to bang into, perhaps of Germanic origin.

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  • seanahan I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel. Oct 9, 2007

‘hurt’ has been looked up 2862 times, loved by 1 person, added to 25 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 7.