hurt
n. C / Un. The feeling of pain, either in your body or in your emotions. It can be a physical injury or a feeling of sadness because someone was unkind.
n. Physical pain or injury, or emotional suffering and distress. Uncountable when referring to the general state of suffering, but countable when referring to specific instances of emotional injury.
She feels a lot of hurt from his words.
The hurt from the breakup was still fresh, making it hard for him to trust anyone new.
He learned that acknowledging the hurt caused by past events was the first step toward healing, rather than pretending the pain didn't exist.
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. Germanic cognates include Dutch horten (“to push against, strike”), Middle Low German hurten (“to run at, collide with”), Middle High German hurten (“to push, bump, attack, storm, invade”), Old Norse hrútr (“battering ram”). Alternate etymology traces Old Northern French hurter rather to Old Norse hrútr (“ram (male sheep)”), lengthened-grade variant of hjǫrtr (“stag”), from Proto-Germanic herutuz, herutaz (“hart, male deer”), which would relate it to English hart (“male deer”). See hart.
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His words were hurt.His words were hurtful.To describe something that causes pain, the adjective 'hurtful' is used. The noun 'hurt' refers to the pain itself.