1
as in to ache
to feel or cause physical pain
my head hurts a bad sprain that really hurts I hurt all over
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2
as in to damage
to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of
don't worry that you'll hurt the new lawn by walking across it
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as in to injure
to cause bodily damage to
the common belief that reading in poor light hurts your eyes
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as in to grieve
to feel deep sadness or mental pain
I know you must be hurting from the cruel words they said
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as in injured
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as in distress
a state of great suffering of body or mind
in her hurt she said a lot of things to her boyfriend that she didn't really mean
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as in harm
something that causes loss or pain
a totally baseless accusation that caused lasting hurt to his reputation
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Recent Examples of hurt
arkansasonline.com, 14 Feb. 2025
My heart hurts losing another friend 2 the throws of drug addiction & the insane fentanyl crisis thats taken over our country!
—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 14 Feb. 2025
Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024
Losing Snell hurt, however, and the team needs to plug that Giant-sized rotation hole.
—Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Verb
Explosion kills 4, hurts 26 in Taiwan TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A gas explosion at a department store in Taiwan on Thursday killed four people and injured 26, fire authorities said.
—arkansasonline.com, 14 Feb. 2025
My heart hurts losing another friend 2 the throws of drug addiction & the insane fentanyl crisis thats taken over our country!
—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
Unfurling across multiple timelines with impressive, confident fluidity, Mothers and Sons is a powerful study of the impossibility of trying to hold back the tides of familial hurt and trauma.
—Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024
Losing Snell hurt, however, and the team needs to plug that Giant-sized rotation hole.
—Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hurt
Verb
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But during the Week 15 game, Niners head coach Kyle Shanahan wanted to put Campbell into the game, because Greenlaw was aching from soreness in his Achilles tendon.—
Paulina Dedaj,
Fox News,
22 Feb. 2025
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Amid her first climb, Jesse feels a spiritual connection to nature and is left aching for more, belting out songs of her new revelations and ambitions.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
14 Feb. 2025
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The Hoover Desk During former President Herbert Hoover's presidency in 1929, a fire severely damaged the West Wing of the White House, including the Oval Office.—
Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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Despite initially being told his bone had been damaged and his arm would probably need to be amputated, doctors managed to save it.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
21 Feb. 2025
Verb
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None of the 60 employees inside SPS Technologies, which manufactures fasteners mainly for the aerospace industry, was injured after explosions set off the fire.—
Saleen Martin,
USA TODAY,
20 Feb. 2025
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No one was injured during the robbery, and detectives are investigating.—
Deanese Williams-Harris,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025
Verb
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To everyone who is grieving today – whose grief has defined your very existence for the past 503 days – please reach out for help.—
Samantha Joseph,
Boston Herald,
22 Feb. 2025
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Chege hasn’t had much time to grieve the loss of her job.—
Jennifer Liu,
CNBC,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Yarden appeared to be in extreme distress in the video and was very likely speaking under duress.—
Mick Krever,
CNN,
20 Feb. 2025
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The smuggling operations also can cause psychological distress and confinement in small spaces, which can cause injury and even death.—
Adriana Pérez,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Matar can be seen in videos rushing the Chautauqua Institution's stage as Rushdie was being introduced to the audience for a talk about keeping writers safe from harm.—
Aleksandra H. Michalska and Jonathan Allen,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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This can become a slippery slope and ultimately cause harm to consumer autonomy.—
Nick Leighton,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
Verb
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An idiosyncratic personal reckoning with the recent death of his mother that gradually expands to take in the perspectives of his kith and kin, the film has the busy, varied emotional intensity of many a family gathering: pained one minute, uproarious the next.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
6 Feb. 2025
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Fans of football surely are both thrilled and pained at this matchup.—
Hannah Vanbiber,
The Athletic,
14 Jan. 2025
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Audio issues occasionally marred the broadcast, including brief interruptions of Fonda’s speech.—
Jake Coyle,
Orlando Sentinel,
24 Feb. 2025
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But a New York Times analysis of the $55 billion in savings claimed by DOGE found that the math is marred with accounting errors, incorrect assumptions, outdated data and other mistakes.—
Talmon Joseph Smith,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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“Hurt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hurt. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
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