hurt

hurt¹ W3S2 [hə:t US hə:rt] v past tense and past participle hurt

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1¦(injure somebody)¦

2¦(feel pain)¦

3¦(cause pain)¦

4¦(insult somebody)¦

5¦(bad effect)¦

6 be hurting

7 something won't/doesn't hurt

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[Date: 1100-1200; : Old French; Origin: hurter 'to crash violently into']

1.) ¦(INJURE SOMEBODY)¦ [T]

to injure yourself or someone else

▪ Was anyone hurt in the accident?

▪ Put that thing down - you might hurt someone with it.

hurt your arm/leg/nose etc

▪ He hurt his knee playing football.

hurt yourself

▪ Be careful you don't fall and hurt yourself.

see usage note ↑damage²

2.) ¦(FEEL PAIN)¦

to feel pain in part of your body

→↑ache

▪ My back hurts.

▪ Where does it hurt?

▪ It hurts when I try to move my leg.

hurt like hell [i]informal (=hurt very much)

▪ My shoulder hurts like hell.

3.) ¦(CAUSE PAIN)¦ [T]

to cause pain in a part of your body

▪ The sun's hurting my eyes.

4.) ¦(INSULT SOMEBODY)¦ [I and T]

to make someone feel very upset, unhappy, sad etc

▪ I didn't mean to hurt your feelings .

it hurts (sb) to do sth

▪ What really hurts is that he never even said goodbye.

▪ It hurt me to think that you hated me.

▪ The last thing I want to do is to hurt you.

5.) ¦(BAD EFFECT)¦ [T]

to have a bad effect on someone or something, especially by making them less successful or powerful

▪ Foreign competition has hurt the company's position in the market.

6.) be hurtingAmE

a) informal to feel very upset or unhappy about something

▪ Martha's going through a divorce and really hurting right now.

b) if a group, organization etc is hurting, they do not have something important that they need

be hurting for

▪ The team is hurting for quarterbacks.

7.) sth won't/doesn't hurt

spoken said when you think someone should do something or that something is a good idea

▪ The house looks pretty good, but a fresh paint job wouldn't hurt either.

it won't/doesn't hurt (sb) to do sth

▪ It won't hurt Julia to get up early for a change.

hurt ²

hurt² adj

1.) [not usually before noun]

suffering pain or injury

= ↑injured

badly/seriously hurt

▪ Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt.

▪ Sometimes players get hurt in training.

2.) very upset or unhappy because someone has said or done something unkind, dishonest, or unfair

▪ Rachel felt hurt and betrayed.

▪ He's no good for you, Jenny. You'll only get hurt again.

▪ his hurt pride

▪ She wore a hurt expression on her face.

very/deeply hurt

▪ Alice was deeply hurt that she hadn't been invited.

hurt ³

hurt³ n [U and C]

a feeling of great unhappiness because someone, especially someone you trust, has treated you badly or unfairly

▪ She saw the hurt in his eyes.

▪ all the hurts and wrongs of the past

▪ All her anger and hurt melted away.

→↑harm