hurt
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Is hurt a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of hurt?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.Examples: "If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset."; "This injection might hurt a little. Your arm will hurting you for a while."Synonyms: dere, injure, wound, abuse, annoy, bewound, damage, damnifyintransitivetransitive
2. (transitive, intransitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.Examples: "He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited."; "The insult hurt."Synonyms: affront, wound, abuse, affront, burn, carry, cut down, disrespectintransitivetransitive
3. (intransitive, stative) To be painful.Examples: "Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better."Synonyms: ache, smart, ache, agonize, anguish, hurt, pain, passionintransitivestative
4. (transitive, intransitive) To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.Examples: "This latest gaffe hurts the legislator’s reelection prospects still further."; "Copying and pasting identical portions of source code hurts maintainability, because the programmer has to keep all those copies synchronized."; "It wouldn't hurt to check the weather forecast and find out if it's going to rain."Synonyms: mar, thwart, behedge, blunt, delay, difficult, diminish, forestayintransitivetransitive
noun (English)
1. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.Examples: "I have received a hurt."; "The cause is a temperate conglutination ; for both bodies are clammy and viscous , and do bridle the deflux of humours to the hurts , without penning them in too much"; "The pains of sickness and hurts […] all men feel."Synonyms: injury, wound, scath, scathe, lesion, derearchaiccountableuncountable
2. (archaic) Injury; damage; detriment; harmExamples: "Thou dost me yet but little hurt."archaiccountableuncountable
3. (engineering) A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.countableuncountable
noun (English)
1. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
name (English)
1. (uncountable) A town in Virginia.uncountable
2. (countable) A surname.countable
Definition source: Wiktionary