Emotions / A2

HURT/hɜːt/

Hurt means cause pain or feel pain: I hurt my back, my head hurts, hurt someone’s feelings. Pain is the noun; ache is a dull ongoing pain. Injured is more medical or serious. Hurt is irregular: hurt / hurt / hurt — not “hurted.” It does not take a preposition for body parts: my knee hurts, not “hurts me the knee.”

Meaning

To cause pain, or to feel pain.

Examples

• “I hurt my hand when I fell.”
• “These shoes hurt my feet.”
• “I did not mean to hurt your feelings.”

Good to know

hurt + body part / my arm hurts. Past: hurt. Noun: pain. Not “hurted.”

Near in meaning

injure

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