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1. hurtverb

   Synonyms:
   injure, wound

2. hurtverb

   To be painful.

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

   Synonyms:
   wound, injure

3. hurtverb

   Pained.

   Synonyms:
   injure, wound

4. hurtverb

   To cause (somebody) emotional pain.

   Synonyms:
   wound, injure

5. hurtverb

   To undermine, impede, or damage.

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

   Synonyms:
   wound, injure

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1. hurt

   Injury (Latin in, not, and jus, juris, right, law) signifies primarily something done contrary to law or right; hence, something contrary to some standard of right or good; whatever reduces the value, utility, beauty, or desirableness of anything is an injury to that thing; of persons, whatever is so done as to operate adversely to one in his person, rights, property, or reputation is an injury; the word is especially used of whatever mars the integrity of the body or causes pain; as, when rescued from the wreck his injuries were found to be very slight. Injury is the general term including all the rest. Damage (Latin damnum, loss) is that which occasions loss to the possessor; hence, any impairment of value, often with the suggestion of fault on the part of the one causing it; damage reduces value, utility, or beauty; detriment (Latin deterere, to rub or wear away) is similar in meaning, but far milder. Detriment may affect value only; damage always affects real worth or utility; as a rule, the slightest use of an article by a purchaser operates to its detriment if again offered for sale, tho the article may have received not the slightest damage. Damage is partial; loss is properly absolute as far as it is predicated at all; the loss of a ship implies that it is gone beyond recovery; the loss of the rudder is a damage to the ship; but since the loss of a part still leaves a part, we may speak of a partial or a total loss. Evil commonly suggests suffering or sin, or both; as, the evils of poverty, the social evil. Harm is closely synonymous with injury; it may apply to body, mind, or estate, but always affects real worth, while injury may concern only estimated value. A hurt is an injury that causes pain, physical or mental; a slight hurt may be no real harm. Mischief is disarrangement, trouble, or harm usually caused by some voluntary agent, with or without injurious intent; a child’s thoughtless sport may do great mischief; wrong is harm done with evil intent. An outrage combines insult and injury. Compare synonyms for BLEMISH; CRIMINAL; INJUSTICE.

   Synonyms:
   blemish, damage, detriment, disadvantage, evil, harm, impairment, injury, injustice, loss, mischief, outrage, prejudice, wrong

   Antonyms:
   advantage, amelioration, benefit, blessing, boon, help, improvement, remedy, service, utility

   Preposition:
   The injury of the cause; an injury to the structure; injury by fire; by or from collision, interference, etc.

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1. hurtverb

   Synonyms:
   wound, bruise, harm, injure, damage, pain, grieve

   Antonyms:
   heal, soothe, console, repair, reinstate, compensate, benefit

2. hurtnoun

   Synonyms:
   harm, injury, damage, wound, detriment, mischief

   Antonyms:
   benefit, pleasure

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1. injury, hurt, harm, traumanoun

   any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

   Synonyms:
   wound, injury, distress, detriment, harm, accidental injury, psychic trauma, impairment, suffering, trauma, damage, scathe, combat injury

   Antonyms:
   uninjured, undamaged

2. distress, hurt, sufferingnoun

   psychological suffering

   «the death of his wife caused him great distress»

   Synonyms:
   injury, distress, detriment, harm, excruciation, damage, distraint, suffering, trauma, agony, scathe, woe

   Antonyms:
   undamaged, uninjured

3. suffering, hurtnoun

   feelings of mental or physical pain

   Synonyms:
   injury, distress, detriment, harm, excruciation, damage, agony, suffering, trauma, woe, scathe

   Antonyms:
   uninjured, undamaged

4. detriment, hurtnoun

   a damage or loss

   Synonyms:
   injury, distress, detriment, harm, damage, suffering, trauma, scathe

   Antonyms:
   uninjured, undamaged

5. damage, harm, hurt, scatheadjective

   the act of damaging something or someone

   Synonyms:
   suffering, injury, distress, detriment, price, harm, damage, terms, legal injury, impairment, wrong, trauma, equipment casualty, scathe

   Antonyms:
   uninjured, undamaged

6. hurt, woundedadjective

   suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle

   «nursing his wounded arm»; «ambulances…for the hurt men and women»

   Synonyms:
   weakened, wounded

   Antonyms:
   undamaged, uninjured

7. hurt, weakenedverb

   damaged inanimate objects or their value

   Synonyms:
   lessened, thinned, faded, cut, diminished, weakened, vitiated, attenuate, attenuated, wounded

   Antonyms:
   undamaged, uninjured

8. ache, smart, hurtverb

   be the source of pain

   Synonyms:
   smart, languish, wound, injure, yearn, bruise, offend, ache, suffer, pine, anguish, spite, pain, yen

   Antonyms:
   uninjured, undamaged

9. hurtverb

   give trouble or pain to

   «This exercise will hurt your back»

   Synonyms:
   smart, wound, injure, bruise, offend, ache, suffer, anguish, spite, pain

   Antonyms:
   undamaged, uninjured

10. pain, anguish, hurtverb

    cause emotional anguish or make miserable

    «It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school»

    Synonyms:
    smart, pain, trouble, injure, wound, bruise, suffer, offend, ache, ail, anguish, spite

    Antonyms:
    undamaged, uninjured

11. hurt, injureverb

    cause damage or affect negatively

    «Our business was hurt by the new competition»

    Synonyms:
    smart, wound, injure, bruise, offend, ache, suffer, anguish, spite, pain

    Antonyms:
    undamaged, uninjured

12. hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spiteverb

    hurt the feelings of

    «She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests»; «This remark really bruised my ego»

    Synonyms:
    injure, suffer, smart, violate, shock, appall, wound, transgress, scandalise, pique, contuse, appal, scandalize, outrage, bruise, go against, breach, pain, offend, infract, spite, anguish, ache, break

    Antonyms:
    undamaged, uninjured

13. hurt, ache, sufferverb

    feel physical pain

    «Were you hurting after the accident?»

    Synonyms:
    injure, get, abide, endure, stand, suffer, lose, smart, tolerate, meet, support, stick out, wound, stomach, sustain, pine, spite, brook, bear, yen, bruise, yearn, pain, offend, languish, digest, have, anguish, ache, put up

    Antonyms:
    uninjured, undamaged

14. suffer, hurtverb

    feel pain or be in pain

    Synonyms:
    injure, get, have, put up, offend, stand, smart, abide, support, wound, stomach, digest, suffer, spite, brook, anguish, stick out, tolerate, sustain, pain, meet, endure, bruise, bear, ache, lose

    Antonyms:
    uninjured, undamaged

Matched Categories

1. • Arouse
   • Be
   • Cause To Be Perceived
   • Damage
   • Indispose
   • Pain
   • Perceive
   • Upset

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1. hurtverb

   Synonyms:
   injure, harm, damage, mar, impair, do harm to

2. hurtverb

   Synonyms:
   pain, wound, give pain to

3. hurtnoun

   Synonyms:
   harm, injury, damage, detriment, mischief, disadvantage

4. hurtnoun

   Synonyms:
   wound, bruise

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1. hurtnoun

   Synonyms:
   injury, wound, detriment, harm, damage

2. hurtverb

   Synonyms:
   damage, wound, impair, harm, injure, offend, harry

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1. List of paraphrases for «hurt»:

   injured, wounded, harm, injure, wrong, harmed, bad, poorly, evil, wound, injury, badly, pain, hit

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1. Russell Schultz:

   Most of it is just to fight, they want to join a gang. So they can go fight antifa and hurt people that they don’t like, and feel justified in doing it.

2. Nicolas Cage:

   In that letter it became clear to me that he was looking more towards a genuine interest in some of the earlier work and a celebration of that, with the elements of whatever pathos I’ve been through that people have or have not read about, and so I said, ‘OK, I think maybe there’s something here.’ On top of which I have a mantra of sorts, which is that the very thing you’re afraid of is probably – most likely as long as (it’s) within reason (and)doesn’t hurt yourself or someone else–that’s the very thing you should go towards, because you’re probably going to learn something.

3. Kyle Rittenhouse:

   People are getting injured and our job is to protect this business, part of my job also is to protect people. If someone is hurt, I’m running into harm’s way.

4. Albert Hernandez:

   We felt the same feelings come back to us as the day of the Walmart shooting. Everything comes back and we’re just wondering, now what? How many people are going to get hurt?

5. San Jie:

   I told my daughter it’s too tiring, too exhausting. My back and neck hurt. It’s all for your education, my daughter said, ‘ Mom, let me help you ’, so she learned.

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