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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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lesion
English
Alternative forms
- læsion (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English lesioun, from Old French lesion, from Latin laesi? (“injury”), itself from laesus, perfect passive participle of laed? (“I injure, hurt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?li???n/
- Rhymes: -i???n
Noun
lesion (plural lesions)
- (pathology) A wound or injury.
- (medicine) An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such on a patch of skin.
- (biochemistry) Any compound formed from damage to a nucleic acid.
- (law) Injury or an unfair imbalance in a commutative contract wherein the consideration is less than half of the market value, which then serves as a basis for the injured party to sue to rescind the agreement.
Derived terms
Related terms
- lese majesty, lèse majesté
Translations
Verb
lesion (third-person singular simple present lesions, present participle lesioning, simple past and past participle lesioned)
- (transitive) To wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure.
Translations
Anagrams
- Elison, eloins, esloin, insole, oleins, onlies, selion
Interlingua
Noun
lesion (plural lesiones)
- lesion, injury
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin laesio.
Noun
lesion f (plural lesions)
- harm; damage
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin laesio.
Noun
lesion f (oblique plural lesions, nominative singular lesion, nominative plural lesions)
- harm; damage
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