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hurt
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- pronunciation:
- huhrt
- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, adjective
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb, noun, adjective), Word Explorer, Grammatical Patterns
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
hurts, hurting, hurt |
| definition 1: |
to cause physical damage, pain, or impairment to.
I hurt my arm when I fell.He hurt her by accident.- synonyms:
- damage, injure, wound
- antonyms:
- restore
- similar words:
- agonize, bruise, harm, impair, kill, pain, spite
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| definition 2: |
to cause emotional suffering to.
Their insulting words hurt us, and we never forgot them as we grew into adults.It hurt me that he said those terrible things about me.[it + verb + smby + that + clause
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- synonyms:
- sting
- antonyms:
- comfort, heal
- similar words:
- agonize, bruise, cut, harm, injure, pain, spite, tear, upset, wound
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| definition 3: |
to damage, harm, or weaken.
The low test score hurt his grade average.- synonyms:
- damage, harm
- antonyms:
- benefit, improve
- similar words:
- deteriorate, impair, injure, prejudice, weaken
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| related words: |
abuse, afflict, affront, ail, cripple, damage, grieve, jam, lacerate, miff, mine, outrage, punish, queer, strain, twinge, wrench |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to feel pain, suffering, or distress.
My stomach hurts.- similar words:
- ache, burn, pain, smart, sting, suffer
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| definition 2: |
to inflict pain, damage, or suffering.
Does it hurt when the doctor presses on your abdomen?[it + verb + WH/whether/if + clause
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Hey! That hurts! Stop banging my arm!The truth sometimes hurts.It hurts when I raise my arm.[it + verb + WH/whether/if + clause
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It really hurts that I can never see him again.[it + verb + that + clause
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It hurts to think that I could have prevented this terrible thing.[it + verb + infinitive
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- similar words:
- cut, pain, smart, sting, wound
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| related words: |
damage, twinge, twitch |
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
an injury, pain, or affliction.
The hurt went away when I took aspirin.- synonyms:
- injury, pain
- similar words:
- ache, affliction, distress, sting, wound
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| definition 2: |
a cause of physical or emotional pain or suffering.
The break-up with her husband left her with a hurt that never really went away.- similar words:
- affliction, bane, injury, pain, sore, sorrow
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| related words: |
agony, contusion, damage, detriment, discomfort, evil, harm, ill, loss, turn, wrench |
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| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
physically or emotionally pained or injured.
The ice soothed her hurt ankle.It was easy to see that the bird was hurt.Both of them had hurt feelings for weeks after the argument.- synonyms:
- injured, wounded
- antonyms:
- all right, healed
- similar words:
- bruised
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