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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HURT, v.t. pret. and pp. hurt.
1. To bruise; to give pain by a contusion, pressure, or any violence to the body. We hurt the body by a severe blow, or by tight clothes, and the feet by fetters. Psalms 105.
2. To wound; to injure or impair the sound state of the body,as by incision or fracture.
3. To harm; to damage; to injure by occasioning loss. We hurt a man by destroying his property.
4. To injure by diminution; to impair.
A man hurts his estate by extravagance.
5. To injure by reducing in quality; to impair the strength,purity or beauty of.
Hurt not the wine and the oil--Revelation 6.
6. To harm; to injure; to damage, in general.
7. To wound; to injure; to give pain to; as, to hurt the feelings.
HURT, n. A wound; a bruise; any thing that gives pain to the body.
The pains of sickness and hurts.
1. Harm; mischief; injury.
I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. Genesis 4.
2. Injury; loss.
Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings? Ezra 4.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle; "nursing his wounded arm"; "ambulances...for the hurt men and women" [syn: hurt, wounded]
2: damaged inanimate objects or their value [syn: hurt, weakened] n
1: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. [syn: injury, hurt, harm, trauma]
2: psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress" [syn: distress, hurt, suffering]
3: feelings of mental or physical pain [syn: suffering, hurt]
4: a damage or loss [syn: detriment, hurt]
5: the act of damaging something or someone [syn: damage, harm, hurt, scathe] v
1: be the source of pain [syn: ache, smart, hurt]
2: give trouble or pain to; "This exercise will hurt your back"
3: cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school" [syn: pain, anguish, hurt]
4: cause damage or affect negatively; "Our business was hurt by the new competition" [syn: hurt, injure]
5: hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego" [syn: hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite]
6: feel physical pain; "Were you hurting after the accident?" [syn: hurt, ache, suffer]
7: feel pain or be in pain [syn: suffer, hurt] [ant: be well]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (hurt; hurting) Etymology: Middle English, probably from Anglo-French hurter to strike, prick, collide with, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse hr?tr male sheep Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. a. to inflict with physical pain ; wound b. to do substantial or material harm to ; damage <the dry summer has hurt the land> 2. a. to cause emotional pain or anguish to ; offend b. to be detrimental to ; hamper <charges of graft hurt my chances of being elected> intransitive verb 1. a. to suffer pain or grief b. to be in need — usually used with for <hurting for money> 2. to cause damage or distress <hit where it hurts> Synonyms: see injure • hurt adjective • hurter noun II. noun Date: 13th century 1. a cause of injury or damage ; blow 2. a. a bodily injury or wound b. mental distress or anguish ; suffering 3. wrong, harm

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. (past and past part. hurt) 1 tr. (also absol.) cause pain or injury to. 2 tr. cause mental pain or distress to (a person, feelings, etc.). 3 intr. suffer pain or harm (my arm hurts). --n. 1 bodily or material injury. 2 harm, wrong. Derivatives: hurtless adj. Etymology: ME f. OF hurter, hurt ult. perh. f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. --Dryden. 2. To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm. Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt. --Milton. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. --Dryden. 2. To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm. Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt. --Milton. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hurts, hurting, hurt) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If you hurt yourself or hurt a part of your body, you feel pain because you have injured yourself. Yasin had seriously hurt himself while trying to escape from the police... He had hurt his back in an accident. VERB: V pron-refl, V n 2. If a part of your body hurts, you feel pain there. His collar bone only hurt when he lifted his arm. VERB: V 3. If you are hurt, you have been injured. His comrades asked him if he was hurt... They were dazed but did not seem to be badly hurt. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ 4. If you hurt someone, you cause them to feel pain. I didn't mean to hurt her, only to keep her still... Ouch. That hurt. VERB: V n, V 5. If someone hurts you, they say or do something that makes you unhappy. He is afraid of hurting Bessy's feelings... What hurts most is the betrayal, the waste. VERB: V n, V 6. If you are hurt, you are upset because of something that someone has said or done. Yes, I was hurt, jealous... ADJ 7. If you say that you are hurting, you mean that you are experiencing emotional pain. I am lonely and I am hurting. VERB: only cont, V 8. To hurt someone or something means to have a bad effect on them or prevent them from succeeding. The combination of hot weather and decreased water supplies is hurting many industries... = damage VERB: V n 9. A feeling of hurt is a feeling that you have when you think that you have been treated badly or judged unfairly. I was full of jealousy and hurt... = pain N-VAR 10. If you say 'It won't hurt to do something' or 'It never hurts to do something', you are recommending an action which you think is helpful or useful. (INFORMAL) It wouldn't hurt you to be a bit more serious. PHRASE: V inflects, usu PHR to-inf

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

hurt: The term (noun and verb) represents a large number of Hebrew words, of which the chief are ra` (verb ra`a`), "evil" (Ge 26:29; 1Sa 24:9; Ps 35:4, etc.), and shebher or shebher (from shabhar), "a fracture" or "breaking" (Jer 6:14; 8:11,21; 10:19; compare Ex 22:10,14). In Greek a principal verb is adikeo, "to do injustice" (Lu 10:19; Re 2:11; 6:6, etc.); once the word "hurt" is used in the King James Version (Ac 27:10, story of Paul's shipwreck) for hubris, "injury" (thus the Revised Version (British and American)). In the Revised Version (British and American) "hurt" sometimes takes the place of other words in the King James Version, as "sick" (Pr 23:35), "breach" (Isa 30:26), "bruise" (Jer 30:12; Na 3:19); sometimes, on the other hand, the word in the King James Version is exchanged in the Revised Version (British and American) for "evil" (Jos 24:20), "harm" (Ac 18:10), or, as above, "injury" (Ac 27:10). These references sufficiently show the meaning of the word--harm, bruise, breaking, etc. In Jeremiah (ut supra) the word is used figuratively for moral disease or corruption.

James Orr

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Injure, harm, damage, mar, impair, do harm to, inflict injury upon. 2. Pain, wound, give pain to. 3. Grieve, afflict, pain, wound, give (mental) pain to. II. n. 1. Harm, injury, damage, detriment, mischief, disadvantage. 2. Wound, bruise.

Moby Thesaurus

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