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verb (used with object), hurt, hurt·ing.

to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.

to cause bodily pain to or in: The wound still hurts him.

to damage or decrease the efficiency of (a material object) by striking, rough use, improper care, etc. : Moths can't hurt this suit because it's mothproof.Dirty oil can hurt a car's engine.

to affect adversely; harm: to hurt one's reputation;It wouldn't hurt the lawn if you watered it more often.

to cause mental pain to; offend or grieve: She hurt his feelings by not asking him to the party.

verb (used without object), hurt, hurt·ing.

to feel or suffer bodily or mental pain or distress: My back still hurts.

to cause bodily or mental pain or distress: The blow to his pride hurt most.

to cause injury, damage, or harm.

to suffer want or need.

noun

a blow that inflicts a wound; bodily injury or the cause of such injury.

injury, damage, or harm.

the cause of mental pain or offense, as an insult.

Heraldry. a rounded azure.

adjective

physically injured: The hurt child was taken to the hospital.

offended; unfavorably affected: hurt pride.

suggesting that one has been offended or is suffering in mind: Take that hurt look off your face!

damaged: hurt merchandise.

OTHER WORDS FOR hurt

3 mar, impair.

5 afflict, wound.

6 ache.

12 cut, slight.

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Origin of hurt

First recorded in 1150–1200; Middle English verb hurten, hirten, herten “to injure, damage, stumble, knock together,” apparently from Old French hurter “to knock (against), oppose” (compare French heurter, originally dialectal), probably a verbal derivative of Frankish unattested hûrt “ram,” cognate with Old Norse hrūtr; noun derivative of the verb

synonym study for hurt

10. See injury.

OTHER WORDS FROM hurt

hurt·a·ble, adjectivehurt·er, nounun·hurt, adjectiveun·hurt·ing, adjective

Words nearby hurt

hursinghar, Hurst, Hurstmonceux, Hurston, Hurston, Zora Neale, hurt, hurter, hurtful, hurtle, hurtleberry, hurtless

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Words related to hurt

ache, bruise, discomfort, outrage, pain, suffering, damage, harm, impair, injure, mar, punish, sting, trouble, wound, annoy, constrain, sadden, upset, aggrieved

How to use hurt in a sentence

  • The exceptional offensive play of second-year defenseman Miro Heiskanen hasn’t hurt, either.

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  • He said that in the case of Away, he doesn’t think the brand will be hurt by having a one-time sale.

    DTC brands are rethinking their ‘never-go-on-sale’ rule|Anna Hensel|September 11, 2020|Digiday

  • So, keep in mind that one or two redirects here and there might not hurt much, but don’t let that number grow.

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  • Her plan was also hurt by the slumping economy this year, which pushed many state residents out of work and made more than 3,000 members eligible for Medicaid, the state-federal health program for the poor.

    Only three of 26 Obamacare-era nonprofit health insurance co-ops will soon remain|lbelanger225|September 6, 2020|Fortune

  • Scaling back the program would hurt not just those who have been injured but the many more people who count on vaccines to protect them from dangerous diseases.

    Gutting this federal program could undermine Americans’ confidence in a COVID vaccine|jakemeth|September 6, 2020|Fortune

  • The offices were firebombed in 2011; no one was hurt but a permanent police car was subsequently stationed outside.

    France Mourns—and Hunts|Nico Hines, Christopher Dickey|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

  • In 2012, as a 10th grader, Lean says he recorded his first legitimate song, “Hurt.”

    The Cult of Yung Lean: ‘I’m Building An Anarchistic Society From the Ground Up’|Marlow Stern|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST

  • The “crying” incident is thought to have hurt Muskie in the primary--which he won handily, but with under 50 percent of the vote.

    The World’s Toughest Political Quiz|Jeff Greenfield|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST

  • Full-grown men play-acting at being hurt when absolutely nothing happened.

    Tim Howard’s Wall of Intensity|William O’Connor|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST

  • Even the best of us can hurt the people who come to us for care when we forget that our foremost obligation is to them.

    Why So Many Surgeons Are Psychos|Russell Saunders|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST

  • Forget it not: for there is no returning, and thou shalt do him no good, and shalt hurt thyself.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various

  • No one was hurt, although the shot was evidently intended for my party.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various

  • Whatever he felt he usually kept bottled up inside, no matter how it hurt.

    Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair

  • The poor dog was severely hurt about the neck; it recovered, however, soon afterwards.

    Hunting the Lions|R.M. Ballantyne

  • A knife would hurt, but Aunty Rosa had told him, a year ago, that if he sucked paint he would die.

    Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling

British Dictionary definitions for hurt (1 of 2)

hurt1

/ (hɜːt) /

verb hurts, hurting or hurt

to cause physical pain to (someone or something)

to cause emotional pain or distress to (someone)

to produce a painful sensation in (someone)the bruise hurts

(intr) informal to feel pain

noun

physical, moral, or mental pain or suffering

a wound, cut, or sore

damage or injury; harm

adjective

injured or pained physically or emotionallya hurt knee; a hurt look

Derived forms of hurt

hurter, noun

Word Origin for hurt

C12 hurten to hit, from Old French hurter to knock against, probably of Germanic origin; compare Old Norse hrūtr ram, Middle High German hurt a collision

British Dictionary definitions for hurt (2 of 2)

hurt2

whort (hwɜːt)

/ (hɜːt) /

noun

Southern English dialect another name for whortleberry

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Other Idioms and Phrases with hurt

see not hurt a fly.

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hurted - Wiktionary

Contents

  • 1 English
    • 1.1 Verb
      • 1.1.1 Usage notes
    • 1.2 Anagrams

English

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.

    • 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria:

      Yet the sting of the adder remains venomous, though there are many who have taken up the evil thing, and it hurted them not.

    • 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?

    • 1911, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes:

      Timmy coughed and groaned, because his ribs hurted him.

    • 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

More pain

We don't know what a cat feels when it's stepped on, but we're used to thinking it's pain. Perhaps she is not like ours, but we can recognize her and empathize with her. The ethical commissions, in which scientists approve their experiments, have no doubt that it hurts all mammals, and indeed all vertebrates. And since 2010, in Europe, octopuses should not be subjected to unnecessary suffering in the name of science. Next round of debate is on the way: Do arthropods feel pain? We tell how scientists face a difficult choice of bumblebees and crayfish in an attempt to answer this question.

At the end of September 2010, members of the European Parliament and the EU Council met to talk about cephalopods. And they equated them with vertebrates - on the basis that both of them are able to feel pain, suffer, experience stress and experience trauma from them for a long time (we talked about what evidence for this in the text "Pain of the cephalopod") .

Europeans, however, never stopped eating cuttlefish and squid. The directive issued by the EU applies only to scientific research, drug testing, veterinary and clinical practice, as well as the work of forensic specialists - there are no farmers, let alone cooks, among the subjects of this document. But those who conceived an experiment with an octopus (including an investigative one) now need to obtain permission from the ethical committee before deciding on manipulations that can cause suffering to animals.

Meanwhile, other invertebrates — with smaller, less complex brains — are just getting ready to enter the ethical guidelines for the law of suffering and injury. For example, recently British scientists published a paper on the pain of bumblebees.

In a series of experiments, insects were fed with solutions of different sweetness (10-, 20-, 30- and 40% glucose solutions), and at the same time some boxes with food were heated up to 55 degrees Celsius. It turned out that bumblebees are ready to climb into hell only if the sweetest nectar is waiting for them there. And if it can be obtained in an unheated feeder and without unnecessary risks, then bumblebees look into the hot compartment less and less.

Looking at this, one can decide that bumblebees are able and ready to endure when a really sweet prize is at stake. But the scientists came to an even stronger conclusion: this result, they say, allows us to conclude that bumblebees generally get hurt. And if so, then they are on a par with those whose pain was officially recognized in Europe: octopuses, mice, dogs and other vertebrates.

And the interpreters went even further: if bumblebees get hurt, they say, then all insects can have sentience.

From the Editor

There is no strict equivalent in Russian for the word sentience . It is often translated as "consciousness". And the idiomatic sentient being - as a "reasonable being". Although sentience has nothing to do with the mind, first of all, purely terminologically, not ontologically (we still do not know this and are not even sure that such a division makes any sense).

In this text, we do not introduce a rigid terminological order, and when it comes to sentience , we reveal its meaning in a specific context. The works on which we rely are written by people with very different scientific backgrounds and, most importantly, at different times - and the language conventions of the 1980s are very different from our modern norms, and from society to society too. Moreover, in many scientific papers, words like sentience , consciousness , mind in relation to humans, animals and insects appear in parts with discussion and interpretation of data, and are often used uncritically.

In the strict sense, sentience is the ability to experience sensory phenomena such as pain, pleasure, and the like. Within the concept of "consciousness" sentience is sharply different from the domain cognition , which includes speech, the ability to make a judgment and think in general. You can read more about all the nuances of these concepts in the context of consciousness and thinking in animals in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), for example, here and here.

Does it hurt?

What pain is is not easy to formulate. Even if we are talking about human pain (we talked about this in the materials "Why Itches" and "It Just Hurts"). The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) adopted another version of its definition in 2020: it is “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with or similar to actual or possible tissue damage.” But there are difficulties with such a definition - in order for us to find out whether a person evaluates his sensory and emotional experience as pain, he must somehow tell us about it. And if he does not want or cannot communicate, we can only assume that he here and now feels about the same thing that anyone else would feel in his place.

This definition cannot be transferred to other species, if only because they do not talk to us. So it is unlikely - and this is recognized even by researchers who study pain - we will be able, guided by such a definition, to know whether animals are really hurt. We can only find out if they have mechanisms that, in principle, allow them to feel pain.

Therefore, no scientist today dares to assert on the basis of one experiment that someone is in pain. Suffering is sought at all levels in turn: first, receptors that respond to damage, then neurons that transmit a signal from them, then nerve centers that process it, and then forms of behavior that would indicate that the signal was received.

So the definition of pain for animals grows into a long list - some have 8, others have 17 items. There is no single standard, so everyone is free to use any or invent their own criteria. They can also be grouped in different ways, but in general they boil down to answers to several main questions:

  • does an animal have something to perceive a painful stimulus and transmit a signal? (receptor, neuron, signaling pathways)
  • does pain relief work? (does the animal stop responding under the influence of the anesthetic)
  • Does the animal recognize where it hurts? (pays special attention to the injured part of the body)
  • Do painful stimuli affect motivation? (i.e. whether they affect decision making)

Some of these questions can usually be sorted out without particularly complex behavioral experiments. The neuron is - or it is not. The animal either rubs the injured limb, or it doesn't. This behavior either stops under the influence of lidocaine, or does not stop. But with other criteria, everything is more complicated.

We shock someone, he or she runs away from us, swims away or crawls away - how to prove that this is a conscious decision to avoid suffering, and not just a reflex and pure automation? It is also possible to teach a robot to run away from current, critics of this approach notice, but it does not follow from this that the robot feels something (which, however, is also far from an indisputable conclusion).

Through pain

In any incomprehensible situation, the hermit crab prefers to sit in the shell. And if it is shocked, then it is quickly evacuated from the sink. This could be considered an unconscious reaction, a reflex. But if you look closely, then in this "reflex" you can find a place for reflection.

When a crayfish expelled from the house is looking for a new shell, it is clearly in a hurry: it spends less time thinking about choosing a shelter than its undisturbed relatives. And such behavior, the researchers note, does not at once look like a reflex in several ways.

First, the reflex must be fast. It works as soon as the signal travels from the receptor to the nerve center and from there back to the muscle, usually it takes less than a second. But changes in behavior after an electric shock in hermit crabs last much longer. If you wait a few minutes after the shock and then offer the injured crayfish a new shell, they feel it two to three times faster than usual and rush to get inside. This "wind up" persists even after a day - which is already noticeably longer than the duration of the reflex.

Second, the reflex elicits simple responses such as pulling back a claw or climbing out of a shell. But after an electric shock, many elements of behavior change in crayfish at once. For example, they begin to hide from the light more, preferring dark sleeves in the experimental maze. And this is the most real manifestation of anxiety - that is, a systemic response that involves different areas of the brain.

Finally, the reflex always works in approximately the same way. There is an electric shock - there is muscle contraction. But cancer may not run away from its house after being hit, it all depends on external circumstances. For example, when he sits in an uncomfortable sink, he can be driven out of there with a weaker electric shock than from a comfortable shelter. And if the aquarium smells like a predator, then you will also need a stronger current. Therefore, researchers suspect that cancer, sitting in the shell, carefully weighs all pro and contra before evacuating or staying at home.

The fact that in such circumstances animals should consciously go to tradeoff (motivational trade-off), that is, make a motivated choice between two non-ideal options, according to scientists, proves that this is not a reflex. To sit in the shell under the shocks of the current, the cancer needs to make an effort of will, which in one way or another will inhibit the neurons that trigger muscle contraction - a natural reaction to the current. If cancer is capable of this, then it is aware of this reaction, somehow registers it, and therefore feels something that people call pain among themselves.

Not everyone agrees that cancer hurts. Some note that these experiments do not reliably distinguish between pain and stress. But for the British government, these arguments were enough. In the new amendments to the Animal Welfare Bill, officials added not only octopuses, but also decapods (including hermit crabs, crayfish and lobsters) to vertebrates as capable of pain and other sensations (sentient beings) .

True, in the near future, crayfish on the island of Great Britain will neither be caught nor eaten - because the law, firstly, has not yet been adopted, and secondly, does not imply such prohibitions. But, according to the minister of animal affairs, the suffering of his wards will now be taken into account when developing new bills.

Why endure

Bumblebees, and insects in general, are still more difficult. They have receptors from the same family as the human TRPA1 heat sensor. Under the surface of the body there are branched sensory neurons covered with these receptors; they also respond to heat and injections. It is also known that the signal from these neurons, albeit in unknown ways, reaches the brain, where the sensation of pain can be formed.

But insects sometimes react to pain in a way that is not at all human and even not like a crustacean.

On the one hand, it is known that fruit flies tend to leave the place where they have just been offended. And moreover, they remember these places so as not to end up in them again. And if a fly is shocked several times in a row with a certain smell in the air, it will subsequently flee from this smell. But if a certain smell appears when the electric shocks stop, then the flies, on the contrary, begin to prefer this smell to others - perhaps precisely because it is associated with the end of pain. These experiments have been going on for ten years already - and their authors even then, without subjecting bumblebees to torment, were firmly convinced that all insects still hurt.

On the other hand, some signs of experiencing pain in insects could not be found. For example, they did not notice a careful attitude to the damaged part of their body (unlike crayfish, which rub and scratch their bruised claws from time to time). Instead, they continue to walk on damaged limbs and eagerly rush for food, even when they are almost cut in two. Therefore, other scientists consider insects zombies: that is, that they are able to behave correctly in accordance with the type of stimulus, but do not experience any conscious experience.

In their experiment with bumblebees and heat, British scientists tested whether they could trade off like hermit crabs. The sweetest compartments (with a 40% solution) were marked with a bright color and always heated. And the scientists checked that the bumblebees remembered this: in each subsequent experiment, there were fewer and fewer situations when insects flew into the compartment, but did not eat anything. So, they flew there purposefully. In other compartments, the solution could be just as sweet or more dilute - but the temperature remained comfortable.

And it turned out that the share of visits to the hot box depended on how much less sugar was offered in safer alternatives. If bumblebees had to choose between hot sweet (55 degrees and 40 percent glucose) and normal insipid (only 10 percent glucose at room temperature), then almost all bumblebees preferred sweet pain to insipid comfort. If an ordinary box promised 20 or 30 percent glucose, some bumblebees were satisfied with this too - the number of entries into the hot zone fell. And if a 40 percent solution was given everywhere, then in the worst case, only 60 percent of the insects preferred not to climb into the hell. And in some groups, in general, all the bumblebees decided not to take risks and the heated box was ignored.

Looking at this data, the researchers decided that bumblebees might choose to endure pain if it promises them something of real value. And that means they have something to endure. Patience, scientists reasoned, is the ability to suppress the physiological response to unpleasant stimuli. And if there is such an ability, then it is needed for some reason - for example, it can come in handy when a physiological reaction interferes with the implementation of a decision.

This result is similar to the behavior of hermit crabs - they could also sit in the shell, despite electric shocks, if outside they smelled of a predator and thus were in danger. And if this turned out to be enough to recognize crayfish as capable of pain, then it should be enough for bumblebees.

The pain of others

Whether this experiment will secure a place for bumblebees in any new bill is hard to say. At best, it will allow you to earn a point in a long test that candidates for sensitive animals must pass. And then legislators will have to look at the results of these tests and understand what they are convinced of.

The experts who wrote the opinion on the current edition of the British Animal Welfare Act relied on eight criteria and decided from the very beginning that it was difficult to meet all of them at once. So they agreed to consider a match on seven or more items as "very strong evidence" for animal intelligence, just "strong evidence" for five, and "essential" for three.

Octopuses passed this selection on as many as 7 points, while squid and cuttlefish showed only "substantial evidence". Crabs scored 5 criteria, lobsters and crayfish - slightly less. And yet this was enough for all cephalopods and decapods to be included in the British bill.

One can imagine that one day bumblebees will score enough points for someone to call on the parliamentarians of at least a separate country to protect them no less than vertebrates and octopuses. In the end, in Norway, bees have already achieved such an attitude - and so far these are the only insects whose pain has been legalized.

True, the recognition of bumblebees as intelligent will give rise to new questions and difficulties. Crayfish have earned their status as a group, molluscs as a whole class. Will the experts dare to include in the list of conscious ones the entire order of Hymenoptera, which includes not only bumblebees and bees, but also ants, ichneumons and at least one and a half hundred thousand species? Or all insects, as the authors of the last article about bumblebees suggest? But this class includes the vast majority of terrestrial animal species, including wingless silverfish, and swimmers without eyes, and cockroaches (cockroaches!). It is unlikely that one day there will be enough evidence about each of the hundreds of thousands of insects - especially considering that the interests of most ethologists are naturally skewed towards more "intelligent", "complex" and social species, like the same bumblebees and bees.

So sooner or later the question will arise: where to draw the line between those whose suffering is real and those who remain a soulless automaton? Perhaps one day, not only mice will be on our side of the border, but also the engines of biological progress like fruit flies and nematodes. Then you have to think that in the world that we have arranged, there is more everyday and inevitable pain.

Polina Loseva, Ivan Shunin

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The meaning of the word HURTS

So that pain is felt.

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The meaning of the word "NECESSARY"

The same as needed.

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Sentences with "it hurts"

It just needs to be cleaned, it has turned too green.

But such an intrusive patient as Kostoglotov, on the contrary, had to be stunned.

We must close the grates, otherwise we will be flooded, but it is painfully stuffy here.

So I have to make you as sick as you need to be by injecting you with a drug that mimics the symptoms you actually have.

And I had to figure it out - after all, all these years I was just a male nurse with a sick wife.

Ptiburdukov the second looked at Ptiburdukov the first and said that the patient did not need to follow a diet.

But since this beast really exists, even though I don’t believe something, we still need to stay close to the site; so it doesn’t hurt and he is needed now with his hunting.

You take off like you have to break through a brick wall. It hurts to watch.

It's always like that with men, they are painfully sensitive where they shouldn't be.

Doctors have a truth: the patient must not be frightened, the patient must be encouraged.

He's probably not being fed the way a sick person should be fed...

No, Scarlett, don't, he said muffledly and squeezed her wrists so hard that it hurt her.

Well, Mr. Felim, - said Zeb, finishing the dressing, - we have done everything to heal the wounds, and now we need to think about how to feed the patient ...

painfully.


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