hurt

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  1. transitive verb To cause physical damage or pain to; injure.
  2. transitive verb To cause mental or emotional suffering to; distress.
  3. transitive verb To cause physical damage to; harm: The frost hurt the orange crop.
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  • He or she has made amends and the hurt was accidental. —  Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories
  • It was so sweet that it hurt--hurt horribly and deliciously, as only Italian music can hurt. —  Everyman's Land
  • The deathly sickness was gone as quickly as it had stricken him, and he struggled upward, with her arms helping him You are hurt--hurt--" he heard her moaning. —  The Courage of Marge O'Doone
  • You understand that it is for the cause, and I don't have to be afraid that you will hurt--hurt my feelings I never thought it would be possible for a girl to look at me like Roxanne Byrd looked at me across the pile of ragged little aprons and old dresses. —  Phyllis
  • She had been thinking of those last words of Allen's, had been seeing again that exalted look in his eyes, could feel again the trembling of his hands as he grasped hers in a grip that hurt--hurt gloriously Wh-what did you say?" —  The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House Or, doing their best for the soldiers
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  1. Middle English hurten, possibly from Old French hurter, to bang into, perhaps of Germanic origin.

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  1. from Middle English hurten, hirten, hyrten, horten (preterit hurte, hirte, past participle hurt, hirt, or hurted, hirted), knock, hit, dash against, injure, hurt, intransitive stumble (the alleged Anglo-Saxon *hyrt, hurt, belongs to Middle English), from Old French hurter, heurter, French heurter; cf. Provencal urtar, hurtar = Italian urtare (Middle Latin hortare, ortare), push, thrust, knock, hit, dash against; Middle Dutch horten, hurten, knock, dash against, Dutch horten, jolt, shake, = Middle Low German Low German hurten, push, = Middle High German hurten, dash against, hurt, a knock, hit, push (later hurtee, hurteclich, German hurtig = Danish Swedish hurtig, quick, nimble); all prob. from Old French, and that of Celtic origin: W. hyrddu, ram, push, impel, butt, make an assault, hwrdd, push, thrust, butt, from Welsh hwrdd, plural hyrddod, = Cornish hordh, later hor, a ram (cf. Manx heurin, a he-goat): cf. English ram, v., knock, push, thrust, now used without direct reference to the noun ram (the animal); but the Celtic words, verb and noun, may have come from a root meaning ‘push, thrust.’ Hence freq. hurtle and its contr. form hurl: see hurtle and hurl.
  2. from Middle English hurt, hurte, a hurt, injury, from Old French hurt, heurt, French heurt, masculine (Old French also hurte, heurte, feminine), = Italian urto (cf. Middle High German hurt = Dutch hurt, hort), a knock, hit, blow, bruise; from the verb.
  3. Also in comp. hurtberry, short for hurtleberry: see hurtberry, hurtleberry. In the heraldic use only in plural hurts, heurts, and apparently a different word (identical with hurt, n., though confused, as the extracts show, with hurt, a huckleberry, except in hurtberry), from Old French “heurtes, small azure balls; tearmed (in heraldry) hurts on men and tongue-moles on women” (Cotgrave): see hurt, n.
 

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