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# hurting

«hurting» in Mova's school dictionary: **causing pain or injury: You are hurting me!** — 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 (present participle of hurt: hurt, hurts, hurt, hurting); adjective (hurting, informal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Hurting means causing pain or injury: You are hurting me! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#m1)

2) Hurting means feeling pain: My knee is hurting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#m2)

3) Hurting can mean upsetting someone's feelings: hurting someone's feelings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In safety and behaviour lessons: tell an adult if something is hurting you, or if someone is hurting you or another child; hurting others, even as a joke, is not OK. In feelings lessons, unkind words can be hurting as well as hits. Phrases: hurting someone's feelings, stop hurting, it is hurting, without hurting.

### examples

- My tummy is hurting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#x1)
- Stop it, you are hurting me! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#x2)
- He did not mean to hurt her feelings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#x3)
- Tell the nurse if your arm is still hurting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#x4)
- Mean words can be hurting too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#x5)
- The dog was hurting, so we took it to the vet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#x6)
- Be gentle so you are not hurting the kitten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#x7)
- Her feet were hurting after the long walk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#x8)

### note

Hurt has the same form in present, past and past participle (hurt, hurt, hurt): not «hurted». One r in hurting. «It hurts» and «it is hurting» both describe pain.

### 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/)
- [Animals feel pain and fear like us, so hurting them on purpose is wrong.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/11/)
- [You are hurting me!).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/20/)
- ["Being diplomatic" means not saying what you really think, to avoid hurting or angering someone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/29-lying-and-drinking/13/)
- [Having a feeling is never wrong, but hurting someone because of it is.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/53-feelings-and-calming-down/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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