hurt

1996, The God of Cookery, spoken by Fortune teller (Kingdom Yuen):

Hey! I'm doing this only for a living, there's no need to hurt me emotionally, isn't it?

wai³! wan² sik⁶ ze¹, m⁴ sai² gam² hoet¹ ngo⁵ aa¹ waa²?

喂！搵食啫，唔使噉hurt我啊話？

喂！揾食啫，唔使噉hurt我啊话？

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to hurt someone emotionally


hurt

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

This injection might hurt a little.

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

He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.

The insult hurt.

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

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

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.

It wouldn't hurt to check the weather forecast and find out if it's going to rain.

He that hath eeris, here he, what the spirit seith to the chirchis. He that ouercometh, schal not be hirt of the secounde deth.

c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume IV (in Middle English), Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Apocalypse II:11, page 643, column 1:

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge

1568, William Cornishe, “A treatise betwene Trouth, and Information”, in J[ohn] S[tow], editor, Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate, London, →OCLC; republished as Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth, London: Printed for C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, 1736, →OCLC, page 290:

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

en-verb

hurt (third-person singular simple present hurts, present participle hurting, simple past and past participle hurt)

hurts (present singular third-person)
hurting (participle present)
hurt (participle past)
hurt (past)

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”).
Alternate etymology traces Old Northern French hurter rather to Old Norse hrútr (“ram (male sheep)”), lengthened-grade variant of hjǫrtr (“stag”), from Proto-Germanic *herutuz, *herutaz (“hart, male deer”), which would relate it to English hart (“male deer”). See hart.

gloss

"to ram into, strike, collide with"; > Modern French <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">heurter</i>


hurt

en-adj

hurt (comparative more hurt, superlative most hurt)

more hurt (comparative)
most hurt (superlative)


hurt

how to overcome old hurts of the past

Jules Rimet still gleaming
Thirty years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming

1996, “Three Lions”, performed by David Baddiel and Frank Skinner:

An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.

I have received a hurt.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act VII, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

The cause is a temperate conglutination ; for both bodies are clammy and viscous , and do bridle the deflux of humours to the hurts , without penning them in too much

1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

The pains of sickness and hurts […] all men feel.

1693, [John Locke], “§107”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:

(archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.

Thou dost me yet but little hurt.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

(archaic) Injury; damage; detriment; harm

(engineering) A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.

en-noun

hurt (countable and uncountable, plural hurts)

болка

An emotional or psychological pain or bad experience


hurt

(heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).

Unclear. Suggestions include: from its resemblance to a blue hurtleberry, or from French heurt (a blow, leaving a blue bruise: compare the theories about golpe (“purple roundel”)).


hurt

inflection of huren:
third-person singular present

inflection of huren:
second-person plural present


hurt

Injury, harm or damage; that which is detrimental:

A wound or disease; damage to one's body.

Monetary loss; damage to one's finances.

(law) A transgression; the act of violating.

(rare) A blunder or that which causes one.

hurtes (plural)
hert (alternative)
hirt (alternative)
hirte (alternative)
horte (alternative)
hurte (alternative)
hyrt (alternative)

English: hurt

Scots: hurt

Welsh: hurt

Either borrowed from Old French hurt or a back-formation of hurten.


hurt

Coordinate term: detal

hurt (nominative singular)
hurtu (genitive singular)
hurtowi (dative singular)
hurt (accusative singular)
hurtem (instrumental singular)
hurcie (locative singular)
hurcie (singular vocative)

→ Belarusian: гурт (hurt)

→ Russian: гурт (gurt)

→ Ukrainian: гурт (hurt)

Borrowed from Middle High German hurt. Cf. German Hürde.


hurt

cy-adj

hurt (feminine singular hurt, plural hurtion, equative hurted, comparative hurtach, superlative hurtaf, not mutable)

hurt (feminine singular)
hurtion (plural)
hurted (equative)
hurtach (comparative)
hurtaf (superlative)

hurtio

to become foolish, to be dazed, stupefied


hurt

cy-noun

hurt m (plural hurtion or hurtiaid or hurtod, not mutable)

hurtion (plural)
hurtiaid (plural)
hurtod (plural)
hurt