different between hurted vs hurter

English

Etymology

From hurt +? -ed.

Verb

hurted

1. (archaic or nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of hurt
   • a1536, William Tyndale, An Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue read in William Tyndale, Henry Walter, An Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue, &c, &c, The Parker Society (1850), p. 74,

     And so long as it was understood what was meant by them, and they did but serve the people, and preach one thing or another unto them, they hurted not greatly.

   • 1715, An Inquiry Into the Origin of Parliamentary Impeachments, J Peele, p. 38,

     And that by his Legacy, no Man shou'd be hurted or offended: And upon that Condition, and no other, he was admitted by your Grace to be Legate.

   • 1766, Jonathan Swift - the Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift

     The Dean then ran up the great stairs, down one pair of back-stairs, up another, in so violent a manner, that Mrs Pilkington could not help expressing her uneasiness to Mrs Brent, lest he should fall, and be hurted.

   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, Wee Willie Winkie read in Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories, Courier Dover Publications (1994), p. 76

     ‘Are you badly, badly hurted?' shouted Wee Willie Winkie, as soon as he was within range. ‘You didn't ought to be here.'

   • 1907, J.M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World

     And you never went near to see was he hurted or what ailed him at all?

   • 2006, John Waller, Irish Flames: Peter Waller's True Story of the Arrival of the Black and Tans, Yiannis Books, ?ISBN, p.66,

     "Well, ye see doctor, it's like this. I mean to say, the lad is far from home and he hurted his leg up yonder in Firgrove Wood."

   • 2006, Jonathan Rogers, The Way of the Wilderking, Broadman & Holman Publishers, ?ISBN, p. 78,

     That hurted Mr. Bear, you know. But mostly, it made him mad.

Usage notes

From the 15th century to the mid-19th century, hurted was used as a standard alternative to hurt and various other spellings as the simple past tense and past participle of to hurt. From the late 19th century, well-known writers have rarely used it except in jocular fashion or in works for children. It is now nonstandard.

Anagrams

• dureth

English

Etymology

hurt +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h??(?)t?(?)/

Noun

hurter (plural hurters)

1. One who hurts or does harm.

   • I shall not be a hurter, if no helper.

2. A beam on a gun-platform that prevents damage from the wheels of a gun-carriage

Old French

Etymology

Frankish *hurton, from Proto-Germanic *hr?tan?, *hreutan? (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (“to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”).

Verb

hurter

1. to crash into; to clatter into

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• French: heurter

Further reading

• “heurter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).