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Hurting   /hˈərtɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Hurt  v. t.  (past & past part. hurt; pres. part. hurting)  
1.
To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully. "The hurt lion groans within his den."
2.
To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm. "Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt."
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."


adjective
hurting  adj.  
1.
Aching when touched.
Synonyms: sensitive, sore, tender.
2.
In distress; experiencing difficulty; as, with the dollar exchange rate so high, companies dependent on exports are really hurting. (Colloq.)


noun
hurting  n.  A feeling of pain.
Synonyms: pain.





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"Hurting" Quotes from Famous Books



... you, maam, I'm that fond of my old Matilda that I never tell her anything at all for fear of hurting her feelings. You see, she's such an out-and-out wife and mother that she's hardly a responsible human being out of her house, except when ...
— Getting Married • George Bernard Shaw
... He had no thought of hurting anybody! He never dreamt that every word was burning and blistering me to the ...
— The Manxman - A Novel - 1895 • Hall Caine
... sanguine to insanity, could have looked for in a room of its dimensions. For only keep the bedstead always in your mind; and you were safe. That was the grand secret. Remembering the bedstead, you might even stoop to look under the little round table for anything you had dropped, without hurting yourself much against the chest of drawers, or qualifying as a patient of Saint Bartholomew, by falling ...
— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens
... splendour of the decorations which he wore on the breast of his admiral's frocker was apprehensively looked upon by his comrades, who loved him with touching loyalty. They muttered their disappointment to each other, but shrank from hurting his feelings by warning him of the danger of the sharpshooters, to whom he would be a target, remembering how he had sharply replied to some anxious soul who on a previous occasion had cautioned him with regard to his prominent appearance, "that in honour he had gained his ...
— Drake, Nelson and Napoleon • Walter Runciman
... done. I don't see why—Freddy, don't poke me. Miss Honeychurch, your brother's hurting me. Ow! What about Mr. Floyd's ten shillings? Ow! No, I don't see and I never shall see why Miss What's-her-name shouldn't pay that bob ...
— A Room With A View • E. M. Forster


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