hurt

v. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hurt lion groans within his den. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. heurtoir, lit., a striker. See Hurt, v. t. ] A butting piece; a strengthening piece, esp.: (Mil.) A piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who hurts or does harm. [ 1913 Webster ]

I shall not be a hurter, if no helper. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pains of sickness and hurts . . . all men feel. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a stain; as of sin. [ 1913 Webster ]

But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou dost me yet but little hurt. Shak.

Syn. -- Wound; bruise; injury; harm; damage; loss; detriment; mischief; bane; disadvantage. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct.

Syn. -- Pernicious; harmful; baneful; prejudicial; detrimental; disadvantageous; mischievous; injurious; noxious; unwholesome; destructive.

-- Hurt"ful*ly, adv. -- Hurt"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. aching when touched.
Syn. -- sensitive, sore, tender. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. In distress; experiencing difficulty; as, with the dollar exchange rate so high, companies dependent on exports are really hurting. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ]

n. a feeling of pain.
Syn. -- pain. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. 1. To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His harmful club he gan to hurtle high. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To push; to jostle; to hurl. [ 1913 Webster ]

And he hurtleth with his horse adown. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]