Meaning

4 senses
  1. (intransitive, transitive)To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.

    If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset.

    This injection might hurt a little. Your arm will be hurting you for a while.

    verletzen

    причиня́ть больpričinjátʹ bolʹ, причини́ть больpričinítʹ bolʹ, ра́нитьránitʹ

    ра́нитиrányty, пора́нитиporányty, зра́нитиzrányty

    be in pain

  2. (intransitive, transitive)To cause (somebody) emotional pain.

    He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.

    The insult hurt.

    quälen

    причиня́ть больpričinjátʹ bolʹ, причини́ть больpričinítʹ bolʹ, ра́нитьránitʹ

    cause emotional anguish or make miserable

  3. (intransitive, stative)To be painful.

    Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.

    weh tun, schmerzen

    боле́тьbolétʹ

    болі́тиbolíty, хворі́тиxvoríty, захворі́тиzaxvoríty

  4. (intransitive, transitive)To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.

    This latest gaffe hurts the legislator’s reelection prospects still further.

    Copying and pasting identical portions of source code hurts maintainability, because the programmer has to keep all those copies synchronized.

Examples

4462 sentences
  1. I didn't mean to hurt you.

    Я не хотів тебе образити. — deniko

    ruЯ не хотел причинить тебе боль. — Hellerick

    deIch wollte dir nicht weh tun. — Wolf

  2. I may have hurt his feelings.

    Можливо, я образив його почуття. — deniko

    ruНаверное, я его обидел. — DiePain

    deIch habe vielleicht seine Gefühle verletzt. — Wolf

  3. Don't worry. I won't hurt her.

    Не турбуйся. Я її не скривджу. — deniko

    ruНе волнуйся. Я не причиню ей вреда. — odexed

    deKeine Sorge! Ich tue ihr nicht weh! — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. I don't want to hurt anyone.

    Я нікого не хочу скривдити. — Ostrovska

    ruЯ никого не хочу задеть. — sharptoothed

    deIch möchte niemandem wehtun. — Espi

  5. We don't want anyone getting hurt.

    Ми не хочемо, щоб хто-небудь постраждав. — deniko

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
to cause physical pain and/or injury:
to be painful, to ache:
Русский
By meaning 3
to cause physical pain and/or injury:
to cause emotional pain — see also shame:
to be painful, to ache:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to cause physical pain and/or injury:
to cause emotional pain — see also shame:
to be painful, to ache:

Origin

From Middle English hurten, hirten, hertan (“to injure, scathe, knock together”), from Old

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”), cognate with Welsh hwrdd (“ram”) and Cornish hordh (“ram”). Compare Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (“to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”); however, the earliest instances of the verb in Middle English are as old as those found in Old French, which leads to the possibility that the Middle English word may instead be a reflex of an unrecorded Old English *hyrtan, which later merged with the Old French verb. Germanic cognates include Dutch horten (“to push against, strike”), Middle Low German hurten (“to run at, collide with”), Middle High German hurten (“to push, bump, attack, storm, invade”), Old Norse hrútr (“battering ram”).

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Forms

hurts, hurting, hurt, hurt
Base formhurt · to hurt
3rd person singularhurts
Present participlehurting
Past simplehurt
Past participlehurt

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhurt
he, she, ithurts

Past simpleLesson

all personshurt

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave hurt
he, she, ithas hurt

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hurt

Synonyms

115 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

10 antonyms

Word family

12 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • get hurt
  • want to hurt
  • get hurt if
  • hurt anyone
  • going to hurt
  • might get hurt
  • never hurt
  • hurt himself
  • mean to hurt
  • hurt in the
  • never hurt anyone
  • hurt your feelings

See also

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