different between hurt vs devastation

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

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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

Etymology

From Middle French dévastation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?.v??ste?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

devastation (countable and uncountable, plural devastations)

1. The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
   • 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

     Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales. Boardwalks along the beach in Seaside Heights, Belmar and other towns on the Jersey Shore were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants all but vanished. Bridges to barrier islands buckled, preventing residents from even inspecting the damage to their property.

2. (law) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or administrator; devastavit.

   Synonym: devastavit

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