hurt

[Hurt]

If you have a party and no one shows up, you will probably feel hurt: emotionally injured by what's happened.

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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

Noun
the act of damaging something or someone

Noun
a damage or loss

Noun
feelings of mental or physical pain

Noun
psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress"

Noun
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

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Verb
give trouble or pain to; "This exercise will hurt your back"

Verb
feel pain or be in pain

Verb
cause damage or affect negatively; "Our business was hurt by the new competition"

Verb
cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school"

Verb
hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised me ego"

Verb
feel physical pain; "Were you hurting after the accident?"

Verb
be the source of pain

Adjective S.
used of inanimate objects or their value

Adjective S.
suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle; "nursing his wounded arm"; "ambulances...for the hurt men and women"


n.
A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

n.
A husk. See Husk, 2.

imp. & p. p.
of Hurt

v. t.
To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.

v. t.
To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm.

v. t.
To wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve.


Hurt

Hurt, n. (Mach.) (a) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions. (b) A husk. See Husk, 2.

Hurt

Hurt , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hurt ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hurting.] [OE. hurten, hirten, horten, herten; prob. fr. OF. hurter, heurter, to knock, thrust, strike, F. heurter; cf. W. hyrddu to push, drive, assault, hwrdd a stroke, blow, push; also, a ram, the orig. sense of the verb thus perhaps being, to butt as a ram; cf. D. horten to push, strike, MHG. hurten, both prob. fr. Old French.] 1. To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.
The hurt lion groans within his den.
2. To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm.
Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt.
3. To wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve. "I am angry and hurt." Thackeray.

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.

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Usage Examples

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.

'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.

And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

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Other Usage Examples

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.

Even if you know that what you'll say will hurt a woman's feelings, I've learned that it's better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about.

Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

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