hurt

About 23.61 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset.

2. verb To cause (somebody) emotional pain.

   He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.

3. verb To be painful.

   Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.

4. verb To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.

   This latest gaffe hurts the legislator’s reelection prospects still further.

5. adjective Wounded, physically injured.
6. adjective Feeling physical or emotional pain.
7. noun An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.

   how to overcome old hurts of the past

8. noun A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.

Similar words

harm ache injure damage trauma injury pain scathe damaged wounded

Often followed by

you the and by her me him to or

Word family

hurter hurters hurting hurts