Hurt \Hurt\, n. (Mach.)
(a) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
(b) A husk. See Husk, 2.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hurt \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.
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The hurt lion groans within his den. --Dryden.
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2. To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to
damage; to injure; to harm.
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Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt. --Milton.
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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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hurt
adj 1: suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in
battle; "nursing his wounded arm"; "ambulances...for
the hurt men and women" [syn: wounded]
2: used of inanimate objects or their value [syn: weakened]
n 1: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or
accident or fracture etc. [syn: injury, harm, trauma]
2: psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him
great distress" [syn: distress, suffering]
3: feelings of mental or physical pain [syn: suffering]
4: a damage or loss [syn: detriment]
5: the act of damaging something or someone [syn: damage, harm,
scathe]
v 1: be the source of pain [syn: ache, smart]
2: give trouble or pain to; "This exercise will hurt your back"
3: cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "It pains me to
see my children not being taught well in school" [syn: pain,
anguish]
4: cause damage or affect negatively; "Our business was hurt by
the new competition" [syn: injure]
5: hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include
me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised me ego"
[syn: wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite]
6: feel physical pain; "Were you hurting after the accident?"
[syn: ache, suffer]
7: feel pain or be in pain [syn: suffer] [ant: be well]
WordNet (r) 2.0
409 Moby Thesaurus words for "hurt":
Schmerz, abomination, abrade, abrasion, abuse, ache,
aches and pains, aching, affect, afflict, afflicted, affront,
aggravate, aggravated, aggrieve, aggrieved, agonize, agonized,
agony, ail, anguish, anguished, atrocity, bad, bane, bang,
bang into, bankruptcy, barb the dart, bark, befoul, befoulment,
bewitch, bite, blanch, bleed, bleeding, blemish, blench, blight,
bloody, blow, break, breakage, breakdown, broken, bruise, bruised,
bump, bump into, burn, burned, burst, busted, cannon, carom,
carom into, chafe, check, checked, chip, chipped, clash, claw,
collapse, collide, come into collision, concuss, concussion,
condemn, confront each other, constrain, convulse, convulsed,
corrupt, corruption, crack, crack up, crack-up, cracked, crackle,
cramp, crash, crash into, craze, crazed, cripple, crippling,
crucified, crucify, crump, crunch, crying evil, curse, cut, cut up,
damage, damaged, dash into, defective, defile, defilement,
dejected, deprave, depress, depressed, depression, despoil,
despoliation, destroy, destruction, deteriorate, deteriorated,
detriment, dilapidate, dilapidated, dilapidation, disable,
disablement, disadvantage, disappoint, discomfort, dismal,
disrepair, disserve, distress, distressed, do a mischief, do evil,
do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, dolor, doom, drawback, embitter,
embittered, encounter, encroachment, endamage, envenom, evil,
exacerbate, exacerbated, excruciate, fall foul of, feel pain,
feel the pangs, fester, flash burn, foul, fracture, fray, frazzle,
fret, gall, gash, get into trouble, give offense, give pain,
give umbrage, gloomy, gnaw, go hard with, grate, grief, grievance,
grieve, grieved, grimace, grind, gripe, handicap, harass, harm,
harmed, harrow, harrowed, have a misery, havoc, hex, hit,
hit against, hobbling, hurt the feelings, hurting, hurtle, ill,
impair, impaired, impairment, imperfect, impinge, in bits,
in distress, in pain, in pieces, in shards, incapacitate,
incapacitation, incise, incision, infect, infection, inflame,
inflict pain, infringement, injure, injured, injury, inroad,
irritate, irritated, jinx, kill by inches, knock, knock against,
lacerate, lacerated, laceration, lame, lesion, liability, loss,
loss of ground, maim, maiming, make mincemeat of, make worse,
malaise, maltreat, mangle, mangled, mar, marred, martyr, martyred,
martyrize, martyrized, maul, mauled, mayhem, meet, melancholy,
menace, mischief, misery, mistreat, misuse, molest, mortal wound,
mournful, mutilate, mutilated, mutilation, nasty blow, nip, offend,
on the rack, outrage, pain, pained, pang, passion, percuss,
persecute, pierce, pinch, play havoc with, play hob with, poison,
pollute, pollution, pound, prejudice, prick, prolong the agony,
puncture, put back, put to torture, rack, racked, rankle, rasp,
rend, rent, rip, rub, rueful, ruin, ruination, ruinousness, rum,
run, run into, rupture, ruptured, sabotage, sad, sadness, savage,
scald, scalded, scarred, scathe, scorch, scorched, scotch, scrape,
scratch, scratched, scuff, second-degree burn, shattered, shock,
shoot, shrink, sickening, sideswipe, skin, slam into, slash,
slashed, slit, smack into, smart, smash, smash into, smash up,
smashed, sore, sore spot, sorrowful, spasm, split, spoil, spoiling,
sprain, sprung, stab, stab wound, step backward, stick, sting,
strain, stress, stress of life, strike, strike against, stroke,
stung, suffer, suffer anguish, suffering, taint, tarnish, tear,
tender spot, the worse for, the worst, third-degree burn, threaten,
thrill, throb, throes, tingle, torment, tormented, torn, torture,
tortured, toxin, trauma, traumatize, tweak, twinge, twist,
twist the knife, twisted, twitch, under the harrow, unhappy, upset,
venom, vexation, violate, vitiate, weaken, weakened, weakening,
whomp, wince, woe, woebegone, worn, worse off, worsen, worsened,
wound, wounded, wounds immedicable, wreak havoc on, wrench,
wretched, wring, writhe, wrong, wronged, wrung
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Hurt, VA (town, FIPS 39224)
Location: 37.09480 N, 79.29870 W
Population (1990): 1294 (561 housing units)
Area: 6.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 24563
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Hurt, VA -- U.S. town in Virginia
Population (2000): 1276
Housing Units (2000): 592
Land area (2000): 2.619250 sq. miles (6.783827 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.619250 sq. miles (6.783827 sq. km)
FIPS code: 39224
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 37.094941 N, 79.298443 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 24563
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Hurt, VA
Hurt
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
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