verb, adjective, noun
verb (hurt, hurt)
1 to cause physical pain to sb/yourself; to injure sb/yourself:
[VN] He hurt his back playing squash. * Did you hurt yourself? * Stop it. You're hurting me. * My back is really hurting me today. * Strong light hurts my eyes. * [V] My shoes hurt-they're too tight.
2 [V] to feel painful:
My feet hurt. * Ouch! That hurt! * It hurts when I bend my knee.
3 to make sb unhappy or upset:
[V] What really hurt was that he never answered my letter. * [VN] I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you. * I didn't want to hurt his feelings. * [VNtoinf] It hurt me to think that he would lie to me. [also Vtoinf]
4 [V] (be hurting) (informal) to feel unhappy or upset:
I know you're hurting and I want to help you.
5 [VN] to have a bad effect on sb/sth:
Many people on low incomes will be hurt by the government's plans. * Hard work never hurt anyone.
6 [V] (be hurting) (for sth) (AmE) to be in a difficult situation because you need sth, especially money:
His campaign is already hurting for money.
IDIOMS
it won't / wouldn't hurt (sb/sth) (to do sth) used to say that sb should do a particular thing:
It wouldn't hurt you to help with the housework occasionally.
moreatFLYn., HITv.
Part of speech: adjective
1 injured physically:
None of the passengers were badly hurt.
OPPUNHURT
2 upset and offended by sth that sb has said or done:
a hurt look / expression * She was deeply hurt that she had not been invited. * Martha's hurt pride showed in her eyes.
noun [U,sing.] a feeling of unhappiness because sb has been unkind or unfair to you:
There was hurt and real anger in her voice. * It was a hurt that would take a long time to heal.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for hurt is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is hurt a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, hurt is tagged as adjective.
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