hurt
/hɝt/ verb A1- 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.
- To cause (somebody) emotional pain. · He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.· The insult hurt.
- To be painful. · Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.
- To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede. · This latest gaffe hurts the legislator’s reelection prospects still further.· It wouldn't hurt to check the weather forecast and find out if it's going to rain.
Plural hurt · He/she/it hurts · Past hurt · Past participle hurt · -ing form hurting
Verb forms
- Base form
- hurt
- He/she/it
- hurts
- Past
- hurt
- Past participle
- hurt
- -ing form
- hurting
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
From the library
The bees came and found no one but the Woodman to sting, so they flew at him and broke off all their stings against the tin, without hurting the Woodman at all.
They say joy never hurts, and so I came to you without any warning.
She was awakened by a shock, so sudden and severe that if Dorothy had not been lying on the soft bed she might have been hurt.
“You see,” he continued confidentially, “I don’t mind my legs and arms and body being stuffed, because I cannot get hurt.
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