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.
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Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment: she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her was another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it.
“Oh, I beg your pardon!” cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had hurt the poor animal’s feelings.
The Duchess took no notice of them even when they hit her; and the baby was howling so much already, that it was quite impossible to say whether the blows hurt it or not.
It hurt awfully, Joe.
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