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Hurting   /hˈərtɪŋ/   Listen
Hurting

noun
1.
A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder.  Synonym: pain.



Hurt

verb
(past & past part. hurt; pres. part. hurting)
1.
Be the source of pain.  Synonyms: ache, smart.
2.
Give trouble or pain to.
3.
Cause emotional anguish or make miserable.  Synonyms: anguish, pain.
4.
Cause damage or affect negatively.  Synonym: injure.
5.
Hurt the feelings of.  Synonyms: bruise, injure, offend, spite, wound.  "This remark really bruised my ego"
6.
Feel physical pain.  Synonyms: ache, suffer.
7.
Feel pain or be in pain.  Synonym: suffer.






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"Hurting" Quotes from Famous Books



... When thus screaming do the eyes become suffused with moisture? Will you ask Sutton to observe carefully? (467/2. One of the keepers who made many observations on monkeys for Mr. Darwin.) Could you make it scream without hurting it much? I should be truly obliged some time for this information, when in spring ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin

... cleft the smallest haire From his faire ladies head, Not hurting her whose even hand ...
— Ballad Book • Katherine Lee Bates (ed.)

... eat for his dinner?" "Does he ever speak to you?" "Does he ever say onything about the school?" "Did ye ever see Bulldog sleeping?" "Are ye feared to be with him?" "Would the police take ye away if he was hurting ye?" "Is there ony other body in the house?" "Would he let ye make gundy (candy) by the kitchen fire?" "Have ye to work all night at yir books?" "Does he make ye brush his boots?" "What do ye call him in the house?" "Would ye call him Bulldog for a shilling's-worth ...
— Young Barbarians • Ian Maclaren

... the Duke and Duchess of PORTLAND at Welbeck, three representative colliery owners and four working miners will," we read, "be presented to their Majesties at Forest Town." A most embarrassing gift, we should say, and one which cannot, without hurting susceptibilities, be passed on to the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 • Various

... arrow and shoot the apple from the head of his son. He was very unwilling to do it, for he was afraid the arrow might miss and kill his child. But the brave boy stood firm, and cried out—"Shoot, father! I am not afraid." He took a steady aim; fired, and knocked the apple off without hurting his son. ...
— The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young • Richard Newton


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