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  • verb archaic Second-person singular present simple form of hurt

Etymologies

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hurt + -est

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Examples

  • But if thou hurtest them, I signify ruin for thy ships, and for thy men, and even though thou shalt thyself escape.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • But if thou hurtest them, I foreshow ruin for thy ship and for thy men, and even though thou shalt thyself escape, late shalt thou return in evil plight, with the loss of all thy company, on board the ship of strangers, and thou shalt find sorrows in thy house, even proud men that devour thy living, while they woo thy godlike wife and offer the gifts of wooing.

    Book XI Homer 1909

  • But if thou hurtest them, I foreshow ruin for thy ship and for thy men, and even though thou shouldest thyself escape, late shalt thou return in evil plight with the loss of all thy company.

    Book XII Homer 1909

  • But if thou hurtest them, I foreshow ruin for thy ship and for thy men, and even though thou shalt thyself escape, late shalt thou return in evil plight, with the loss of all thy company, on board the ship of strangers, and thou shalt find sorrows in thy house, even proud men that devour thy living, while they woo thy godlike wife and offer the gifts of wooing.

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878

  • 'Ware how thou hurtest man with hurt of hearts, ii.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • 'Ware how thou hurtest man with hurt of heart; * 'Tis hard to win thee back the heart offended:

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • But I couldn't reconcile a child who knew words like omnivore, nutritional and antenna and then at other times would describe something as "the hurtest".

    unknown title 2011

  • But I couldn't reconcile a child who knew words like omnivore, nutritional and antenna and then at other times would describe something as "the hurtest".

    unknown title 2011

  • But I couldn't reconcile a child who knew words like omnivore, nutritional and antenna and then at other times would describe something as "the hurtest".

    unknown title 2011

  • But I couldn't reconcile a child who knew words like omnivore, nutritional and antenna and then at other times would describe something as "the hurtest".

    unknown title 2011

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