different between hurt vs abash

English

Etymology

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 *h?rt (“a battering ram”), from Proto-Germanic *hr?tan?, *hreutan? (“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 *h?rtan, 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 hj?rtr (“stag”), from Proto-Germanic *herutuz, *herutaz (“hart, male deer”), which would relate it to English hart (“male deer”). See hart.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hû(r)t, IPA^(key): /h??t/
• (General American) enPR: hûrt, IPA^(key): /h?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Verb

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

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

2. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.

   He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.

3. (intransitive) To be painful.

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

   Copying and pasting identical portions of source code hurts maintainability, because the programmer has to keep all those copies synchronized.

Synonyms

• (to be painful): smart
• (to cause physical pain and/or injury): wound, injure, dere

Derived terms

• hurtle
• wouldn't hurt a fly

Translations

See also

• ache

Adjective

hurt (comparative more hurt, superlative most hurt)

1. Wounded, physically injured.
2. Pained.

Synonyms

• (wounded): imbrued, injured, wounded; see also Thesaurus:wounded
• (pained): aching, sore, suffering

Translations

Noun

hurt (plural hurts)

1. An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
2. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
   • 1605, Shakespeare, King Lear vii

     I have received a hurt.

   • 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

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

3. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm
4. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
5. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
6. A husk.

Translations

Related terms

• hurty

References

Anagrams

• Ruth, Thur, ruth, thru, thur

Polish

Etymology

From Middle High German hurt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xurt/

Noun

hurt m inan

1. wholesale

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) hurtowy
• (nouns) hurtownia, hurtownik

Further reading

• hurt in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Alternative forms

• abasse

Etymology

First attested in 1303. From Middle English abaisen, abaishen, abashen (“to gape with surprise”) etc., from Anglo-Norman abaïss, from Middle French abair, abaisser (“to astonish, alter”), from Old French esbaïr, (French ébahir), from es- (“utterly”) + baïr (“to astonish”), from Medieval Latin *exbad?, from ex- (“out of”) + bado (“I gape, yawn”), an onomatopoeic word imitating a yawn, see also French badaud (“rubbernecker”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??bæ?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??bæ?/

• Rhymes: -æ?

Verb

abash (third-person singular simple present abashes, present participle abashing, simple past and past participle abashed)

1. (transitive) To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit. [First attested from around (1150 to 1350).]

   Synonyms: bewilder, confuse, confound, daunt, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dishearten, embarrass, faze, fluster, humble, humiliate, mortify, rattle, shake, shame, snub

   Antonyms: abet, animate, buoy, cheer, countenance, embolden, encourage, incite, inspirit, rally, reassure, uphold

   • 1849, Thomas Macaulay, History of England, Chapter 14

     He was a man whom no check could abash
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To lose self-possession; to become ashamed. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the late 16^th century.]

Usage notes

• Of abash, confuse, confound: Abash is a stronger word than confuse, but not so strong as confound.
  • We are abashed when struck either with sudden shame or with a humbling sense of inferiority; as, Peter was abashed by the look of his Master. So a modest youth is abashed in the presence of those who are greatly his superiors.
  • We are confused when, from some unexpected or startling occurrence, we lose clearness of thought and self-possession. Thus, a witness is often confused by a severe cross-examination; a timid person is apt to be confused in entering a room full of strangers.
  • We are confounded when our minds are overwhelmed, as it were, by something wholly unexpected, amazing, dreadful, etc., so that we have nothing to say. Thus, a criminal is usually confounded at the discovery of his guilt.

  • Satan stood Awhile as mute, confounded what to say. – John Milton

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:abash

Derived terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Basha, Sabah, basha, sabha