HURT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hurt mean? 

• HURT (noun)
  The noun HURT has 5 senses:

1. any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

2. psychological suffering

3. feelings of mental or physical pain

4. a damage or loss

5. the act of damaging something or someone

  Familiarity information: HURT used as a noun is common.

• HURT (adjective)
  The adjective HURT has 2 senses:

1. suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle

2. damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value

  Familiarity information: HURT used as an adjective is rare.

• HURT (verb)
  The verb HURT has 7 senses:

1. be the source of pain

2. give trouble or pain to

3. cause emotional anguish or make miserable

4. cause damage or affect negatively

5. hurt the feelings of

6. feel physical pain

7. feel pain or be in pain

  Familiarity information: HURT used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HURT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

harm; hurt; injury; trauma

Hypernyms ("hurt" is a kind of...):

health problem; ill health; unhealthiness (a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hurt"):

whiplash; whiplash injury (an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident))

pull; twist; wrench (a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments)

lesion; wound (an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin))

wale; weal; welt; wheal (a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions)

strain (injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain)

bite; insect bite; sting (a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin)

rupture (state of being torn or burst open)

pinch (an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed)

penetrating injury; penetrating trauma (injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body)

intravasation (entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel)

cryopathy; frostbite (destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene)

brain damage (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.)

break; fracture (breaking of hard tissue such as bone)

birth trauma (physical injury to an infant during the birth process)

blast trauma (injury caused the explosion of a bomb (especially in enclosed spaces))

bleeding; haemorrhage; hemorrhage (the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel)

blunt trauma (injury incurred when the human body hits or is hit by a large outside object (as a car))

bruise; contusion (an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration)

bump (a lump on the body caused by a blow)

burn (an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation)

dislocation (a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column))

electric shock (trauma caused by the passage of electric current through the body (as from contact with high voltage lines or being struck by lightning); usually involves burns and abnormal heart rhythm and unconsciousness)

Derivation:

hurt (feel pain or be in pain)

hurt (feel physical pain)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Psychological suffering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

distress; hurt; suffering

Context example:

the death of his wife caused him great distress

Hypernyms ("hurt" is a kind of...):

pain; painfulness (emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hurt"):

wound (a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride))

tsoris ((Yiddish) trouble and suffering)

self-torment; self-torture (self-imposed distress)

anguish; torment; torture (extreme mental distress)

Derivation:

hurt (give trouble or pain to)

hurt (be the source of pain)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Feelings of mental or physical pain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

hurt; suffering

Hypernyms ("hurt" is a kind of...):

pain; painfulness (emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hurt"):

agony; torment; torture (intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain)

throes (violent pangs of suffering)

discomfort; irritation; soreness (an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress)

Derivation:

hurt (give trouble or pain to)

hurt (cause emotional anguish or make miserable)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A damage or loss

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

detriment; hurt

Hypernyms ("hurt" is a kind of...):

damage; harm; impairment (the occurrence of a change for the worse)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hurt"):

expense (a detriment or sacrifice)

Derivation:

hurt (cause damage or affect negatively)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The act of damaging something or someone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

damage; harm; hurt; scathe

Hypernyms ("hurt" is a kind of...):

change of integrity (the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hurt"):

defacement; disfiguration; disfigurement; mutilation (the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something)

wound; wounding (the act of inflicting a wound)

burn (damage inflicted by fire)

defloration (an act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something)

impairment (damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality)

• HURT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle

Synonyms:

hurt; wounded

Context example:

ambulances...for the hurt men and women

Similar:

injured (harmed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value

Synonyms:

hurt; weakened

Similar:

damaged (harmed or injured or spoiled)

• HURT (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be the source of pain

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

ache; hurt; smart

Hypernyms (to "hurt" is one way to...):

cause to be perceived (have perceptible qualities)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hurt"):

bite; burn; sting (cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort)

burn (feel hot or painful)

itch (have or perceive an itch)

hunger (feel the need to eat)

thirst (feel the need to drink)

act up (make itself felt as a recurring pain)

throb (pulsate or pound with abnormal force)

shoot (cause a sharp and sudden pain in)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody's (body part) ----s

Sentence example:

Did his feet hurt?

Derivation:

hurt (psychological suffering)

hurting (a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give trouble or pain to

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

This exercise will hurt your back

Hypernyms (to "hurt" is one way to...):

indispose (cause to feel unwell)

Cause:

ache; hurt; smart (be the source of pain)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hurt"):

injure; wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)

ail; pain; trouble (cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed)

disagree with (not be very easily digestible)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

Did he hurt his foot?

Derivation:

hurt (psychological suffering)

hurt (feelings of mental or physical pain)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cause emotional anguish or make miserable

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

anguish; hurt; pain

Context example:

It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school

Hypernyms (to "hurt" is one way to...):

discomfit; discompose; disconcert; untune; upset (cause to lose one's composure)

Cause:

suffer (experience (emotional) pain)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hurt"):

agonise; agonize (cause to agonize)

excruciate; rack; torment; torture (torment emotionally or mentally)

break someone's heart (cause deep emotional pain and grief to somebody)

try (give pain or trouble to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot hurt Sue

Derivation:

hurt (feelings of mental or physical pain)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Cause damage or affect negatively

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

hurt; injure

Context example:

Our business was hurt by the new competition

Hypernyms (to "hurt" is one way to...):

damage (inflict damage upon)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

hurt (a damage or loss)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Hurt the feelings of

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

bruise; hurt; injure; offend; spite; wound

Context example:

This remark really bruised my ego

Hypernyms (to "hurt" is one way to...):

arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hurt"):

affront; diss; insult (treat, mention, or speak to rudely)

lacerate (deeply hurt the feelings of; distress)

sting (cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging)

abase; chagrin; humble; humiliate; mortify (cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

Sam cannot hurt Sue
The performance is likely to hurt Sue

Sense 6

Meaning:

Feel physical pain

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

ache; hurt; suffer

Context example:

Were you hurting after the accident?

Hypernyms (to "hurt" is one way to...):

comprehend; perceive (to become aware of through the senses)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hurt"):

kill (be the source of great pain for)

prick; sting; twinge (cause a stinging pain)

twinge (feel a sudden sharp, local pain)

catch; get (suffer from the receipt of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue hurt

Derivation:

hurt (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

hurting (a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Feel pain or be in pain

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

hurt; suffer

Hypernyms (to "hurt" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hurt"):

have (suffer from; be ill with)

choke; gag; strangle; suffocate (struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake)

ail (be ill or unwell)

famish; hunger; starve (be hungry; go without food)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue hurt

Derivation:

hurt (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

hurting (a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder)

 Context examples 

Anger and hurt were beneath him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You will hurt yourself there if you fall.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In an emergency situation, you already have something hurting you that needs immediate attention—in that case, seek the help you need—including surgery, quickly.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She was awakened by a shock, so sudden and severe that if Dorothy had not been lying on the soft bed she might have been hurt.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Boots had then run down the lane, and another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been hurt.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could bear, and I have borne, a great deal from Mr. James; but he insulted me too far. He hurt me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Buck had a trick of love expression that was akin to hurt.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It was the worst hurt he had ever known.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A stronger man, or a body of men more strong in all than him, can at certain times hold him; but they cannot hurt him as we can be hurt by him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Never did the white man hurt him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)