"hurt someone's feelings" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-hurt someone's feelings.ogg Forms: hurts someone's feelings [present, singular, third-person], hurting someone's feelings [participle, present], hurt someone's feelings [participle, past], hurt someone's feelings [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|hurt<,,hurt> someone's feelings}} hurt someone's feelings (third-person singular simple present hurts someone's feelings, present participle hurting someone's feelings, simple past and past participle hurt someone's feelings)
  1. (idiomatic) To offend or emotionally hurt someone. Tags: idiomatic Translations (to offend someone): pahoittaa jonkun mieli (Finnish), blesser (French), vexer (French), ferire i sentimenti (Italian), .감정을 상하게 하다 (.gamjeong'eul sanghage hada) (Korean), قیرمق (kırmak) (Ottoman Turkish), داغلامق (dağlamak) (Ottoman Turkish), ییقمق (yıkmak) (Ottoman Turkish), incitmek (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "to offend someone",
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          "sense": "to offend someone",
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      "sense": "to offend someone",
      "word": "pahoittaa jonkun mieli"
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      "sense": "to offend someone",
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      "sense": "to offend someone",
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      "sense": "to offend someone",
      "word": "ferire i sentimenti"
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      "roman": ".gamjeong'eul sanghage hada",
      "sense": "to offend someone",
      "word": ".감정을 상하게 하다"
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      "roman": "kırmak",
      "sense": "to offend someone",
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      "sense": "to offend someone",
      "word": "داغلامق"
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      "sense": "to offend someone",
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