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# hurt

«hurt» in Mova's school dictionary: **To cause pain or injury to a body: "I hurt my knee."** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (hurt, hurts, hurt, hurting); adjective (hurt — injured or upset); noun (hurt — pain, sadness)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To cause pain or injury to a body: "I hurt my knee." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#m1)

2) To feel pain: "My head hurts." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#m2)

3) To make someone feel sad or upset: "Her words hurt me." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#m3)

4) To cause damage or harm: "It won't hurt to ask." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In safety lessons: if you are hurt, tell an adult; never hurt animals or people; if someone hurts you, it is not your fault, and you should tell. In feelings: words can hurt as well as hits. Phrases: get hurt, hurt feelings, it won't hurt to, badly hurt.

### examples

- I fell and hurt my arm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#x1)
- My tummy hurts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#x2)
- Be careful or you'll get hurt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#x3)
- Mean words can hurt people's feelings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#x4)
- Never hurt an animal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#x5)
- Does it hurt when I press here? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#x6)
- It won't hurt to ask the teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#x7)
- She felt hurt when nobody played with her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#x8)
- "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#x9)

### note

Past tense and past participle are both "hurt" (not "hurted"). "Hurt" and "injured" are close; injured is for bodies only. Telling an adult when someone hurts you is not tattling; it is staying safe.

### In the corpora

- [A scan picture is made by a machine that uses sound waves to see the baby inside the body without hurting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/10/)
- [Dentists check teeth every six months to a year to catch small problems, like holes, before they hurt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/11/)
- [Rights belong to everyone, and freedom stops where it starts to hurt others.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/9/)
- [Your freedom stops where it starts to hurt other people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/21/)
- [Most people think tiny kind lies are OK, but big lies that hurt people or hide important things are not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hurt» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.