hurt

Meaning

Verb

1. (intransitive, transitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
2. (intransitive, transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
3. (intransitive, stative) To be painful.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.

Adj

1. Wounded, physically injured.
2. Feeling physical or emotional pain.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
2. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
3. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Injury; damage; detriment; harm
4. (countable, uncountable) A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
5. (countable, uncountable) A husk.

Noun

A roundel azure (blue circular spot).

Synonyms

injure

kill

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wound

harm

injured

pain

ache

damage

injury

wounded

strike

cause pain

offend

bruise

sting

suffer

sore

offended

cut

smart

afflict

distress

suffering

painful

hit

torment

damaged

punish

stab

be sore

pinch

impairment

sick

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burn

lesion

destroy

detriment

beat up

ill

🤢

wrong

loss

feel pain

killed

scathe

aggrieve

be painful

imperfection

spoil

gash

flaw

Translations

faire mal

verletzen

doler

blesser

doer

dolere

ferire

kwetsen

schmerzen

daño

schaden

dañar

herir

ferir

جرح

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hɜːt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: hurten

Cognate with French: heurter

Cognate with Welsh: hwrdd

Cognate with Cornish: hordh

Inherited from Old English: *hyrtan

Cognate with Dutch: horten

Cognate with Middle Low German: hurten

Cognate with Middle High German: hurten

Cognate with Old Norse: hrútr

In summary

From Middle English hurten, hirten, hertan (“to injure, scathe, knock together”), from Old Northern French hurter ("to ram into, strike, collide with"; > Modern French heurter), perhaps from Frankish *hūrt (“a battering ram”), cognate with Welsh hwrdd (“ram”) and Cornish hordh (“ram”). Compare Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (“to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”); however, the earliest instances of the verb in Middle English are as old as those found in Old French, which leads to the possibility that the Middle English word may instead be a reflex of an unrecorded Old English *hyrtan, which later merged with the Old French verb. Germanic cognates include Dutch horten (“to push against, strike”), Middle Low German hurten (“to run at, collide with”), Middle High German hurten (“to push, bump, attack, storm, invade”), Old Norse hrútr (“battering ram”).
Alternate etymology traces Old Northern French hurter rather to Old Norse hrútr (“ram (male sheep)”), lengthened-grade variant of hjǫrtr (“stag”), from Proto-Germanic *herutuz, *herutaz (“hart, male deer”), which would relate it to English hart (“male deer”). See hart.