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- Dictionaryhurt/həːt/
verb
- 1. cause pain or injury to: "Ow! You're hurting me!" Similar Opposite
- 2. be detrimental to: "high interest rates are hurting the local economy" Similar Opposite
adjective
- 1. physically injured: "he complained of a hurt leg and asked his trainer to stop the fight"
noun
- 1. physical injury; harm: "rolling properly into a fall minimizes hurt" Similar
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HURT definition: 1. to feel pain in a part of your body, or to injure someone or cause them pain: 2. to cause…. Learn more.
1. a. : to inflict with physical pain : wound. He hurt his back while moving some boxes. was seriously hurt in a car accident. You're hurting my arm! b. : to do substantial or material harm to : damage. the dry summer has hurt the land. 2. a. : to cause emotional pain or anguish to : offend. never meant to hurt you. got her feelings hurt. b.
Hurt definition: to cause bodily injury to; injure. See examples of HURT used in a sentence.
Definition of hurt verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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? [Middle English hurten, possibly from Old French hurter, to bang into, perhaps of Germanic origin.] hurt′er n.
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. synonyms: harm, injury, trauma. see more. injury to the brain that impairs its functions (especially permanently); can be caused by trauma to the head, infection, hemorrhage, inadequate oxygen, genetic abnormality, etc.
To hurt someone or something means to have a bad effect on them or prevent them from succeeding. The combination of hot weather and decreased water supplies is hurting many industries. [VERB noun] The planned closures will really hurt the local economies. [VERB noun] 9. variable noun.
HURT definition: 1. to cause someone pain or to injure them: 2. If a part of your body hurts, it is painful: 3. to…. Learn more.
Definitions of 'hurt' 1. If you hurt yourself or hurt a part of your body, you feel pain because you have injured yourself. [...] 2. If a part of your body hurts, you feel pain there. [...] 3. If you are hurt, you have been injured. [...] More. Conjugations of 'hurt' present simple: I hurt, you hurt [...] past simple: I hurt, you hurt [...]
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English hurt1 /hɜːt $ hɜːrt/ S1 W2 verb (past tense and past participle hurt) 1 injure somebody [transitive] to injure yourself or someone else Was anyone hurt in the accident?
