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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; "the patient developed severe pain and distension" [syn: pain, hurting]

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.

Moby Thesaurus

Schmerz, aches and pains, aching, acute, afflicted, afflictive, agonized, agonizing, algetic, atrocious, bankruptcy, biting, breakage, breakdown, collapse, convulsed, crack-up, cramping, crippling, crucified, cruel, damage, destruction, detriment, dilapidation, disablement, discomfort, disrepair, distress, distressed, distressing, dolor, encroachment, excruciating, gnawing, grave, griping, hard, harm, harrowed, harrowing, harsh, hobbling, hurt, hurtful, impairment, in distress, in pain, incapacitation, infringement, injury, inroad, lacerated, loss, maiming, malaise, martyred, martyrized, mayhem, mischief, misery, mutilation, on the rack, pain, pained, painful, paroxysmal, piercing, poignant, pungent, racked, racking, ruination, ruinousness, sabotage, scathe, severe, sharp, shooting, sickening, sore, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spoiling, stabbing, stinging, suffering, tormented, tormenting, tortured, torturous, twisted, under the harrow, weakening, wounded, wrung