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hurt
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)
- (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
- He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.
- (intransitive) To be painful.
- (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)
- Wounded, physically injured.
- Pained.
Synonyms
- (wounded): imbrued, injured, wounded; see also Thesaurus:wounded
- (pained): aching, sore, suffering
Translations
Noun
hurt (plural hurts)
- An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
- (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.
- 1605, Shakespeare, King Lear vii
- (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm
- (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
- (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
- 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
- wholesale
Declension
Derived terms
- (adjective) hurtowy
- (nouns) hurtownia, hurtownik
Further reading
- hurt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
hurt From the web:
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havoc
English
Alternative forms
- havock (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English havok, havyk, from Old French havok in the phrase crier havok (“cry havoc”) a signal to soldiers to seize plunder, from Old French crier (“cry out, shout”) + havot (“pillaging, looting”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hæv.?k/
Noun
havoc (usually uncountable, plural havocs)
- widespread devastation, destruction
- Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make / Among your works!
- mayhem
Usage notes
The noun havoc is most often used in the set phrase wreak havoc.
Derived terms
- play havoc, raise havoc, wreak havoc, cry havoc, break havoc
Translations
Verb
havoc (third-person singular simple present havocs, present participle havocking, simple past and past participle havocked)
- To pillage.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act I, Scene II:
- To tear and havoc more than she can eat.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act I, Scene II:
- To cause havoc.
Usage notes
As with other verbs ending in vowel + -c, the gerund-participle is sometimes spelled havocing, and the preterite and past participle is sometimes spelled havoced; for citations using these spellings, see their respective entries. However, the spellings havocking and havocked are far more common. Compare panic, picnic.
Translations
Interjection
havoc
- A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter.
- Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt / With modest warrant.
References
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