Question 1 · Quick check
hurt
CEFRA1
/hɜːt/
verb · adjective
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In plain English
- 01
verb
To cause physical or emotional pain to someone or something.
- 02
adjective
Feeling physical pain or emotional distress after something happened.
Examples
There was hurt and real anger in her voice.
I didn't mean to hurt you.
At a glance
Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Deep Dive
verb
Extra meaningsTo be painful.
To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
More examples
In contextMy shoes hurt. I'm in agony.
He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.
If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset.
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Origin
verb
From Middle English hurten, hirten, hertan (“to injure, scathe, knock together”), from Old Northern French hurter ("to ram into, strike, collide with"; > Modern French heurter), perhaps from Frankish *hūrt (“a battering ram”), cognate with Welsh hwrdd (“ram”) and Cornish hordh (“ram”). Compare Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (“to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”); however, the earliest instances of the verb in Middle English are as old as those found in Old French, which leads to the possibility that the Middle English word may instead be a reflex of an unrecorded Old English *hyrtan, which later merged with the Old French verb. Germani...