hurt
pronunciation
How to pronounce hurt in British English:
UK [hɜːt]
How to pronounce hurt in American English:
US [hɜːrt]
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- Noun:
- any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
- psychological suffering
- feelings of mental or physical pain
- a damage or loss
- the act of damaging something or someone
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- Verb:
- be the source of pain
- give trouble or pain to
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- cause damage or affect negatively
- hurt the feelings of
- feel physical pain
- feel pain or be in pain
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- Adjective:
- suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle
- used of inanimate objects or their value
Word Origin
- hurt
- hurt: [12] English borrowed hurt from Old French hurter, which meant ‘knock’ (as its modern French descendant heurter still does). This sense died out in English in the 17th century, leaving only the metaphorically extended ‘wound, harm’. It is not clear where the Old French word came from, although it may ultimately be of Germanic origin. Hurtle [13], a derivative of hurt, also originally meant ‘knock’, and did not develop its present connotations of precipitate speed until the 16th century.=> hurtle
- hurt (v.)
- c. 1200, "to injure, wound" (the body, feelings, reputation, etc.), also "to stumble (into), bump into; charge against, rush, crash into; knock (things) together," from Old French hurter "to ram, strike, collide," perhaps from Frankish *hurt "ram" (cognates: Middle High German hurten "run at, collide," Old Norse hrutr "ram"). The English usage is as old as the French, and perhaps there was a native Old English *hyrtan, but it has not been recorded. Meaning "to be a source of pain" (of a body part) is from 1850. To hurt (one's) feelings attested by 1779. Sense of "knock" died out 17c., but compare hurtle. Other Germanic languages tend to use their form of English scathe in this sense (Danish skade, Swedish skada, German schaden, Dutch schaden).
- hurt (n.)
- c. 1200, "a wound, an injury;" also "sorrow, lovesickness," from hurt (v.).
Example
- 1. You can 't hurt me now .
- 2. Bankers say the new rules will also hurt lending .
- 3. State media reported three civilians had been hurt .
- 4. His political wounding has already hurt the president .
- 5. No matter how mildly I mentioned it to her , she would be deeply hurt .