Hurting

hurting
    n 1: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; "the patient
         developed severe pain and distension" [syn: {pain},
         {hurting}]
    

hurting \hurting\ n.
   a feeling of pain.

   Syn: pain.
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hurting \hurting\ adj.
   1. aching when touched.

   Syn: sensitive, sore, tender.
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   2. In distress; experiencing difficulty; as, with the dollar
      exchange rate so high, companies dependent on exports are
      really hurting. [Colloq.]
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Hurt \Hurt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hurt}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Hurting}.] [OE. hurten, hirten, horten, herten; prob. fr.
   OF. hurter, heurter, to knock, thrust, strike, F. heurter;
   cf. W. hyrddu to push, drive, assault, hwrdd a stroke, blow,
   push; also, a ram, the orig. sense of the verb thus perhaps
   being, to butt as a ram; cf. D. horten to push, strike, MHG.
   hurten, both prob. fr. Old French.]
   1. To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound
      or bruise painfully.
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            The hurt lion groans within his den.  --Dryden.
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   2. To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to
      damage; to injure; to harm.
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            Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt. --Milton.
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   3. To wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to
      offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve. "I
      am angry and hurt." --Thackeray.
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97 Moby Thesaurus words for "hurting":
      Schmerz, aches and pains, aching, acute, afflicted, afflictive,
      agonized, agonizing, algetic, atrocious, bankruptcy, biting,
      breakage, breakdown, collapse, convulsed, crack-up, cramping,
      crippling, crucified, cruel, damage, destruction, detriment,
      dilapidation, disablement, discomfort, disrepair, distress,
      distressed, distressing, dolor, encroachment, excruciating,
      gnawing, grave, griping, hard, harm, harrowed, harrowing, harsh,
      hobbling, hurt, hurtful, impairment, in distress, in pain,
      incapacitation, infringement, injury, inroad, lacerated, loss,
      maiming, malaise, martyred, martyrized, mayhem, mischief, misery,
      mutilation, on the rack, pain, pained, painful, paroxysmal,
      piercing, poignant, pungent, racked, racking, ruination,
      ruinousness, sabotage, scathe, severe, sharp, shooting, sickening,
      sore, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spoiling, stabbing, stinging,
      suffering, tormented, tormenting, tortured, torturous, twisted,
      under the harrow, weakening, wounded, wrung