hurt
IPA: hˈɝt
noun
- An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
- (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
- (archaic) Injury; damage; detriment; harm
- (engineering) A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
- A husk.
- (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
- (uncountable) A town in Virginia.
- (countable) A surname.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
- (intransitive, stative) To be painful.
- (transitive, intransitive) To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.
adjective
- Wounded, physically injured.
- Pained.
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Examples of "hurt" in Sentences
- She is hurt by the reproof.
- He gibes at me and it hurts.
- The spike was really hurting.
- I was hurt by the ramose tree.
- The man was hurt by a splinter.
- He was almost hurt by a raptor.
- He was brutally hurt by thorns.
- He was hurt after being snubbed.
- He was hurt when the sinkhole appeared.
- If the intent is to harm, then the teasing is hurtful.
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