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Webster 1913 Edition

Hurt

Hurt

,
Noun.
(Mach.)
(a)
A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
(b)
A husk. See
Husk
, 2.

Hurt

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Hurt
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Hurting
.]
[OE.
hurten
,
hirten
,
horten
,
herten
; prob. fr. OF.
hurter
,
heurter
, to knock, thrust, strike, F.
heurter
; cf. W.
hyrddu
to push, drive, assault,
hwrdd
a stroke, blow, push; also, a ram, the orig. sense of the verb thus perhaps being, to butt as a ram; cf. D.
horten
to push, strike, MHG.
hurten
, both prob. fr. Old French.]
1.
To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.
The
hurt
lion groans within his den.
Dryden.
2.
To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm.
Virtue may be assailed, but never
hurt
.
Milton.
3.
To wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve.
“I am angry and hurt.”
Thackeray.

Webster 1828 Edition

Hurt

HURT

,
Verb.
T.
pret. and pp. hurt.
1.
To bruise; to give pain by a contusion, pressure, or any violence to the body. We hurt the body by a severe blow, or by tight clothes, and the feet by fetters. Ps.105.
2.
To wound; to injure or impair the sound state of the body,as by incision or fracture.
3.
To harm; to damage; to injure by occasioning loss. We hurt a man by destroying his property.
4.
To injure by diminution; to impair.
A man hurts his estate by extravagance.
5.
To injure by reducing in quality; to impair the strength,purity or beauty of.
Hurt not the wine and the oil--Rev.6.
6.
To harm; to injure; to damage, in general.
7.
To wound; to injure; to give pain to; as, to hurt the feelings.

HURT

,
Noun.
A wound; a bruise; any thing that gives pain to the body.
The pains of sickness and hurts.
1.
Harm; mischief; injury.
I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. Gen.4.
2.
Injury; loss.
Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings? Ezra.4.

Definition 2024

Hurt

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English

Proper noun

Hurt

  1. A town in Virginia.

hurt

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English

Verb

hurt ‎(third-person singular simple present hurts, present participle hurting, simple past and past participle hurt)

  1. (intransitive) To be painful.
    Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.
  2. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
    If anybody hurts my little brother I will get upset.
  3. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
  4. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
    This latest gaffe hurts the MP's reelection prospects still further.

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Adjective

hurt ‎(comparative more hurt, superlative most hurt)

  1. Wounded, physically injured.
  2. Pained.

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Noun

hurt ‎(plural hurts)

  1. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience)
    • How to overcome old hurts of the past
  2. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
    • 1605, Shakespeare, King Lear vii
      I have received a hurt.
    • John Locke
      The pains of sickness and hurts […] all men feel.
  3. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm
    • Shakespeare
      Thou dost me yet but little hurt.
  4. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
  5. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
  6. A husk.

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References

  1. ↑ D.Q. Adams, Encyclopeida of Indo-European Culture, s.v. "horn" (London: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1999), 273.

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Polish

Etymology

From Middle High German

Noun

hurt m inan

  1. wholesale

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Derived terms

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”), from Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną ‎(“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- ‎(“to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”). Related to Dutch horten ‎(“to push against, strike”), Middle Low German hurten ‎(“to run at, collide with”), 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”),[1] from Proto-Germanic *herutuz, *herutaz ‎(“hart, male deer”), which would relate it to English hart ‎(“male deer”). See hart.

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