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/hˈərtɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Hurt v. t. (past & past part. hurt; pres. part. hurting)

1.

To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully. "The hurt lion groans within his den."

2.

To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm. "Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt."

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."

adjective

hurting adj.

1.

Aching when touched.

Synonyms: sensitive, sore, tender.

2.

In distress; experiencing difficulty; as, with the dollar exchange rate so high, companies dependent on exports are really hurting. (Colloq.)

noun

hurting n. A feeling of pain.

Synonyms: pain.

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Etymology of 'Hurting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hurting" Quotes from Famous Books

... I said at first, the representative of a great city, and able to think less of defending myself than of attacking others, I am prepared to concede something in prevision of these dangers. I am not inclined to ruin myself for the sake of hurting my enemies, or so blinded by animosity as to think myself equally master of my own plans and of fortune which I cannot command; but I am ready to give up anything in reason. I call upon the rest ...

— The History of the Peloponnesian War • Thucydides

... prosecuted his discourse, and told him from point to point all his fortunes: how he was the youngest son of Sir John of Bordeaux, his name Rosader, how his brother sundry times had wronged him, and lastly how, for beating the sheriff and hurting ...

— Rosalynde - or, Euphues' Golden Legacy • Thomas Lodge

... Kirby is too fur gone fur us to have our show. He jest sets and stares and stares at the fire, and his eyes looks like they is another fire inside of his head, and he is hurting outside and in. Looey and me watches him from the shadders fur a long time before we turns in, and the last thing I seen before I went to sleep was him setting there with his face in his hands, staring, and his lips moving now and then like he was ...

— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis

... after us," she said to herself, with a soft little laugh which rippled through the dark room and even made itself heard in the other room across the passage where the four boys were sleeping; and Rupert, who had been having bad dreams because his lame foot was hurting rather badly, smiled in his uneasy slumber and straightway drifted off into a more profound repose, from which he did not wake until the misty September dawning crept over the wide plantations of beech and larch ...

— The Adventurous Seven - Their Hazardous Undertaking • Bessie Marchant

... most appalling manner! His wife's lover was a soldier from Perugia in garrison at Sienna—ask Ludovico—he knows all about it, but has never liked to tell you, for fear of hurting your feelings. Allow me to inform you, Bebe, that the Prince of Wales does not begin to smoke till between the second and third courses—never ...

— The Child of Pleasure • Gabriele D'Annunzio

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