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hurt

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of hurt

1 a state of great suffering of body or mind

in her hurt she said a lot of things to her boyfriend that she didn't really mean

Synonyms of hurt

affliction, agony, anguish, distress, excruciation, misery, pain, rack, strait(s), torment, torture, travail, tribulation, woe

Words Related to hurt

cross, crucible, trial

heartache, heartbreak, joylessness, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness

emergency, pinch

asperity, difficulty, hardship, rigor

ache, pang, smarting, soreness, stitch, throe, twinge

danger, jeopardy, trouble

Near Antonyms of hurt

comfort, consolation, solace

alleviation, assuagement, ease, relief

peace, security

2 something that causes loss or pain

a totally baseless accusation that caused lasting hurt to his reputation

Synonyms of hurt

affliction, damage, detriment, harm, injury

Words Related to hurt

disservice, injustice, outrage, wrong

affront, dart, indignity, insult, offense (or offence)

beating, crippling, mayhem, mutilation

defacement, disability, disablement, disfigurement, impairment

rupture, strain

abrasion, chafe, scrape, scratch

boo-boo, bruise, contusion, swelling, wound

bump, concussion

cut, gash, laceration

burn, scald, scar, scathe, sear

Near Antonyms of hurt

healing, recovery

cure, fix, remedy

hurt

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of hurt

1 to feel or cause physical pain

my head hurts

a bad sprain that really hurts

I hurt all over

Synonyms of hurt

ache, pain, smart

Words Related to hurt

bite, bleed, burn, chafe, cramp, fester, itch, nag, pinch, pound, rack, sting, swell, throb, tingle, twinge

agonize, anguish, suffer

afflict, harrow, torment, torture

2 to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of

donʼt worry that youʼll hurt the new lawn by walking across it

Synonyms of hurt

blemish, bloody, break, compromise, crab, cripple, cross (up), damage, deface, disfigure, endamage, flaw, harm, impair, injure, mar, spoil, vitiate

Words Related to hurt

deteriorate, enervate, enfeeble, undermine, weaken

erode, scour, wash out, wear (away)

blight, tarnish

dent, ding, dint

botch, gum (up), queer

lacerate, wound

disable, hamstring, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, torment, torture

annihilate, bang up, bash, batter, clobber, crush, dash, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, do in, pulverize, raze, ruin, scourge, shatter, smash, tear down, total, waste, wipe out, wreck

Near Antonyms of hurt

cure, heal, help, rectify, rehabilitate, remedy

edit, remodel, revise

ameliorate, better, enhance, enrich, improve, meliorate, perfect, refine

Antonyms of hurt

doctor, fix, mend, patch, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, renovate, repair, revamp

3 to cause bodily damage to

the common belief that reading in poor light hurts your eyes

Synonyms of hurt

damage, harm, injure, wound

Words Related to hurt

batter, bloody, blow out, bruise, contuse, cut, gash, gore, lacerate, scald, scar, scathe, strain, tear

crease, graze, nick

cripple, hamstring, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate

abuse, aggrieve, afflict, maltreat, torment, torture

blemish, impair, mar, scrape, spoil

Near Antonyms of hurt

cure, fix, heal, mend, remedy

4 to feel deep sadness or mental pain

I know you must be hurting from the cruel words they said

Synonyms of hurt

agonize, anguish, bleed, grieve, mourn, sorrow, suffer

Words Related to hurt

ache, long (for), pine (away), sigh, smart

rack, torment, torture

bemoan, bewail, deplore, lament, rue

bawl, blubber, cry, groan, howl, keen, moan, sob, take on, wail, weep, yammer, yowl

Phrases Synonymous with hurt

eat one's heart out, tear one's hair

Near Antonyms of hurt

beam, cheer, crow, delight, exult, glory, joy, laugh, ravish, rejoice, triumph

assure, cheer, comfort, commiserate, console, reassure, solace, soothe, sympathize

Synonym Discussion of hurt

injure, harm, hurt, damage, impair, mar mean to affect injuriously. injure implies the inflicting of anything detrimental to one's looks, comfort, health, or success.

- badly injured in an accident

harm often stresses the inflicting of pain, suffering, or loss.

- careful not to harm the animals

hurt implies inflicting a wound to the body or to the feelings.

- hurt by their callous remarks

damage suggests injury that lowers value or impairs usefulness.

- a table damaged in shipping

impair suggests a making less complete or efficient by deterioration or diminution.

- years of smoking had impaired his health

mar applies to injury that spoils perfection (as of a surface) or causes disfigurement.

- the text is marred by many typos

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