hurt
To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
Verb 4 meanings
To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
“If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset.”
To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
“He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.”
To be painful.
“Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.”
To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.
“This latest gaffe hurts the legislator’s reelection prospects still further.”
Adjective 2 meanings
Wounded, physically injured.
Feeling physical or emotional pain.
Noun 4 meanings
An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
“how to overcome old hurts of the past”
A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
A husk.
A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
Etymology
From Middle English hurten, hirten, hertan (“to injure, scathe, knock together”), from Old Northern French hurter ("to ram into, strike, collide with"; > Modern French heurter), perhaps from Frankish *hūrt (“a battering ram”), cognate with Welsh hwrdd (“ram”) and Cornish hordh (“ram”).
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HURT at a glance
HURT has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (H 4 + U 1 + R 1 + T 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,185 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with hurt
All rhymes- COURT7
- YOGURT10
- FRANKFURT19
- CURT6
- YOGHURT14
- SPURT7
- STURT5
- UNHURT9
- FORECOURT14
- BLURT7
- BACKCOURT19
- YURT7
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