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hurt

/hɜːt/
noun
  1. An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.

    "how to overcome old hurts of the past"

  2. A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.

  3. Injury; damage; detriment; harm

verb
  1. To be painful.

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

  2. To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.

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

  3. To cause (somebody) emotional pain.

Synonymssmart, dere, injure, wound
adjective
  1. Wounded, physically injured.

  2. Pained.

Synonymsaching, sore, suffering, imbrued, injured, wounded

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