herir

  1. (transitive) to wound, injure (to cause physical injury and pain)
  2. (transitive) to hurt, offend, wound (to cause emotional pain)

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
he‧rir
Pronounced as (IPA)
/eˈɾiɾ/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish ferir, from Latin ferīre, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to scrape, to cut”). Related to English interfere.

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