# hurt

Pronunciation: say "HURT" US /hɝt/, UK /hɜːt/

## Verb

1. To cause physical pain or injury to a person or an animal.
   - Simple: To cause pain or injury to a person or an animal.
   - _The fall hurt his knee badly, and he limped for a week._
   - _The boxer hit hard enough to hurt, even through the heavy gloves._
2. To damage, harm, or impair something; to undermine or impede its progress.
   - Simple: To damage something or make it weaker or less successful.
   - _The scandal hurt the senator's chances of reelection._
   - _A weak quarter won't hurt if annual sales stay strong._
3. To be painful; to give a sensation of pain, as an injured or strained body part does.
   - Simple: To be painful, like a sore tooth or a twisted ankle.
   - _Fresh stitches hurt whenever the patient coughs or laughs._
   - _His shoulder still hurts when he reaches overhead._
5. To cause someone emotional pain.
   - Simple: To make someone feel sad or upset inside.
   - _It hurt her that no one remembered her birthday._
   - _Careless remarks can hurt long after they are spoken._

## Adjective

4. Wounded or physically injured.
   - Simple: Having a wound or other injury to the body.
   - _Paramedics checked the hurt passengers before moving anyone._
   - _None of the riders was seriously hurt in the fall._
6. Feeling physical or emotional pain.
   - Simple: Feeling pain in the body or sadness inside.
   - _His hurt expression made it clear the criticism had stung._
   - _She sounded hurt when she asked why we hadn't called._

## Noun

7. Emotional or psychological pain or distress, especially that caused by a bad experience or unkind treatment; also, an instance of this.
   - Simple: Sad or painful feelings caused by a bad experience or unkind treatment.
   - _Years of old hurt surfaced when she returned to her hometown._
   - _He spoke openly about the hurt of being passed over for promotion._

## Noun

8. A bodily injury, wound, or bruise; more generally, damage or harm. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: An old word for an injury, or for harm or damage.

## Other meanings

- (noun) A roundel azure; a solid blue circular figure borne as a charge on a coat of arms.
- (noun) A band on the helve of a trip hammer, bearing the trunnions on which the hammer pivots.
- (noun) A husk; the dry outer covering of a seed, grain, or nut.

## Origin

Middle English hurten ("to injure, scathe, knock together") came from Old Northern French hurter, meaning "to strike, ram into, collide with," the source of Modern French heurter. Where the French word came from is uncertain. One idea is that it is perhaps from Frankish *hūrt, a word for a battering ram, a relative of Welsh hwrdd ("ram"). Because the verb turns up in Middle English as early as in French, it may instead continue an unrecorded Old English *hyrtan that later blended with the French verb. Another view links the French word to Old Norse hrútr ("ram"), which would make it kin to English hart.

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