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hurt

verb
/hɜːt/UK/hɝt/US

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”). Compare Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (“to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”); however, the earliest instances of the verb in Middle English are as old as those found in Old French, which leads to the possibility that the Middle English word may instead be a reflex of an unrecorded Old English *hyrtan, which later merged with the Old French verb. Germanic cognates include Dutch horten (“to push against, strike”), Middle Low German hurten (“to run at, collide with”), Middle High German hurten (“to push, bump, attack, storm, invade”), Old Norse hrútr (“battering ram”). Alternate etymology traces Old Northern French hurter rather to Old Norse hrútr (“ram (male sheep)”), lengthened-grade variant of hjǫrtr (“stag”), from Proto-Germanic *herutuz, *herutaz (“hart, male deer”), which would relate it to English hart (“male deer”). See hart.

  1. derived from *herutuz✻
  2. derived from hrútr — “ram (male sheep)”
  3. inherited from *hyrtan✻
  4. derived from *krew-✻ — “to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”
  5. derived from *hūrt✻ — “a battering ram”
  6. derived from hurter
  7. inherited from hurten

Definitions

  1. To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.

    • If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset.
    • This injection might hurt a little. Your arm will be hurting you for a while.

  2. To cause (somebody) emotional pain.

    • He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.
    • The insult hurt.

  3. To be painful.

    • Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.
  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.

      • This latest gaffe hurts the legislator’s reelection prospects still further.
      • Copying and pasting identical portions of source code hurts maintainability, because the programmer has to keep all those copies synchronized.
      • It wouldn't hurt to check the weather forecast and find out if it's going to rain.

    2. Wounded, physically injured.

    3. Feeling physical or emotional pain.

    4. An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.

      • how to overcome old hurts of the past
      • Jules Rimet still gleaming Thirty years of hurt Never stopped me dreaming

    5. A bodily injury causing pain

      A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.

      • I have received a hurt.
      • The cause is a temperate conglutination ; for both bodies are clammy and viscous , and do bridle the deflux of humours to the hurts , without penning them in too much
      • The pains of sickness and hurts […] all men feel.

    6. Injury

      Injury; damage; detriment; harm

      • Thou dost me yet but little hurt.

    7. A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.

    8. A husk.

    9. A roundel azure (blue circular spot).

    10. A town in Virginia.

    11. A surname.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at hurt. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01hurt02painful03distress04acute05intense06feelings07feeling08sensitive

A definitional loop anchored at hurt. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at hurt

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA