hurting

hurt

H0332400 (hûrt)v. hurt, hurt·ing, hurts v.tr.1. a. To cause physical damage or pain to (an individual or a body part); injure: The fall hurt his back.b. To experience injury or pain to or in (an individual or a body part): I hurt my knee skiing.2. To cause mental or emotional suffering to; distress: The remark hurt his feelings.3. To cause physical damage to (something); harm: The frost hurt the orange crop.4. To be detrimental to; hinder or impair: The scandal hurt the candidate's chances for victory.v.intr.1. To have or produce a feeling of physical pain or discomfort: My leg hurts.2. a. To cause distress or damage: Parental neglect hurts.b. To have an adverse effect: "It never hurt to have a friend at court" (Tom Clancy).3. Informal To experience distress, especially of a financial kind; be in need: "Even in a business that's hurting there's always a guy who can make a buck" (New York).n.1. Something that hurts; a pain, injury, or wound.2. Mental suffering; anguish: getting over the hurt of reading the letter.3. A wrong; harm: What hurt have you done to them?

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[Middle English hurten, possibly from Old French hurter, to bang into, perhaps of Germanic origin.]

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hurt′er n.

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hurting - a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; "the patient developed severe pain and distension"painsymptom - (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular diseaseache, aching - a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) painexcruciation, suffering, agony - a state of acute painarthralgia - pain in a joint or jointsburn, burning - pain that feels hot as if it were on firecausalgia - a burning pain in a limb along the course of a peripheral nerve; usually associated with skin changescolic, gripes, griping, intestinal colic - acute abdominal pain (especially in infants)chest pain - pain in the chestchiralgia - a pain in the hand that is not traumaticdistress - extreme physical pain; "the patient appeared to be in distress"dysmenorrhea - painful menstruationglossalgia, glossodynia - pain in the tonguegrowing pains - pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growthhaemorrhoid, hemorrhoid, piles - pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincterkeratalgia - pain in the cornealabor pain - pain and discomfort associated with contractions of the uterus during labormastalgia - pain in the breastmelagra - rheumatic or myalgic pains in the arms or legsmeralgia - pain in the thighmetralgia - pain in the uterusmyalgia, myodynia - pain in a muscle or group of musclesnephralgia - pain in the kidney (usually felt in the loins)neuralgia, neuralgy - acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nervesodynophagia - severe pain on swallowing due to a disorder of the esophagusorchidalgia - pain in the testespang - a sharp spasm of painpang, sting - a mental pain or distress; "a pang of conscience"photalgia, photophobia - pain in the eye resulting from exposure to bright light (often associated with albinism)costalgia, pleuralgia, pleurodynia - pain in the chest caused by inflammation of the muscles between the ribspodalgia - foot painproctalgia - pain in the rectumreferred pain - pain that is felt at a place in the body different from the injured or diseased part where the pain would be expected; "angina pectoris can cause referred pain in the left shoulder"; "pain in the right shoulder can be referred pain from gallbladder disease"renal colic - sharp pain in the lower back that radiates into the groin; associated with the passage of a renal calculus through the uretersmart, smarting, smartness - a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a soresting, stinging - a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung; "the sting of death"; "he felt the stinging of nettles"stitch - a sharp spasm of pain in the side resulting from runningsoreness, tenderness, rawness - a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched); "the best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness"; "after taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on"thermalgesia - pain caused by heatthrob - a deep pulsating type of paintorment, torture - unbearable physical painulalgia - pain in the gumsurodynia - pain during urination