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as in aches
to feel or cause physical pain
my head hurts a bad sprain that really hurts I hurt all over
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as in damages
to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of
don't worry that you'll hurt the new lawn by walking across it
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as in injures
to cause bodily damage to
the common belief that reading in poor light hurts your eyes
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as in grieves
to feel deep sadness or mental pain
I know you must be hurting from the cruel words they said
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as in pains
a state of great suffering of body or mind
in her hurt she said a lot of things to her boyfriend that she didn't really mean
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as in harms
something that causes loss or pain
a totally baseless accusation that caused lasting hurt to his reputation
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Recent Examples of hurts
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
29 June 2026
Neighbors are worried the next crash could be the one that busts through their wall or hurts someone who lives in one of the nearby homes.
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Drew Aunkst,
CBS News,
28 June 2026
Sharper measurement helps an investor in one direction and hurts in another.
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Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
That especially hurts on the blue line, where Larry Robinson, Chris Chelios and even Eric Desjardins were all second-rounders.
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Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
26 June 2026
With the Sox contending for a postseason spot, every day is now important, and the losing hurts more.
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Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2026
Keeping it becomes the thing that hurts us all.
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Emily St. Martin,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
No spin, no silver lining, just plain acknowledgment that losing hurts.
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Angela Haupt,
Time,
18 June 2026
Supporters dispute the characterization that the initiative hurts environmental safeguards.
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Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
17 June 2026
Michelle Tea,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2026
The wounds and humiliations of private life can rarely be redressed by law; literature offers a parallel tribunal in which those hurts are litigated and, if possible, imaginatively overcome.
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Charlie Tyson,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
Modern play calling insists on going for it on fourth downs, particularly in the opponent’s territory, because converting on fourth down helps more than failing to convert on fourth down hurts.
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Jason Lloyd,
New York Times,
5 Feb. 2026
Work On Your Personal Relationships Work on your most significant personal relationship to shore up conflict, hurts and wounds, and turn it into one that is life-giving and energizing.
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Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
Verb
Losing in Game 7 already hurts enough, but losing in extra innings to the Los Angeles Dodgers is a real twist of the knife.
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Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
29 June 2026
Neighbors are worried the next crash could be the one that busts through their wall or hurts someone who lives in one of the nearby homes.
—
Drew Aunkst,
CBS News,
28 June 2026
Sharper measurement helps an investor in one direction and hurts in another.
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Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
That especially hurts on the blue line, where Larry Robinson, Chris Chelios and even Eric Desjardins were all second-rounders.
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Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
26 June 2026
With the Sox contending for a postseason spot, every day is now important, and the losing hurts more.
—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2026
Keeping it becomes the thing that hurts us all.
—
Emily St. Martin,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
No spin, no silver lining, just plain acknowledgment that losing hurts.
—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
18 June 2026
Supporters dispute the characterization that the initiative hurts environmental safeguards.
—
Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
17 June 2026
Noun
Both the people who were hurt and the people who caused those hurts had some amount of evolution.
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Michelle Tea,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2026
The wounds and humiliations of private life can rarely be redressed by law; literature offers a parallel tribunal in which those hurts are litigated and, if possible, imaginatively overcome.
—
Charlie Tyson,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
Modern play calling insists on going for it on fourth downs, particularly in the opponent’s territory, because converting on fourth down helps more than failing to convert on fourth down hurts.
—
Jason Lloyd,
New York Times,
5 Feb. 2026
Work On Your Personal Relationships Work on your most significant personal relationship to shore up conflict, hurts and wounds, and turn it into one that is life-giving and energizing.
—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hurts
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Symptoms include fever, headache, body aches, vomiting, diarrhea or rash, according to the CDC.
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Some people also experience body aches, headache or vomiting.
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Most notably, those who switched faced a 24% higher risk of developing diabetic retinopathy, a condition that damages the blood vessels in the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye.
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Your Eyes High blood pressure also damages the sensitive back lining of the eye called the retina.
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Early on in the clip, Jake Johnson’s former tennis star Dusty Boyd trips over the net and injures his wrist in a bad way.
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Who is responsible when a robot breaks something or injures someone?
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Each person grieves differently.
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The Professor, with only her ex-partner’s cat for company, sits in her decaying apartment and grieves the loss of her relationship and her struggle with infertility.
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Having witnessed centuries of religious warfare in Europe, when millions were killed for their beliefs, the framers took pains to make sure nothing like that would happen here.
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Perhaps second only to getting sunburned through your favorite white dress, the greatest casualty of summer fashion is the aches and pains brought on by your cutest but least supportive shoes.
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And there’s no guarantee that Illinois would grant the license, threatening irreparable harms, including income and reputation loss, Kalshi argued.
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As the tech becomes more accessible, questions have emerged about its potential harms, consent and who stands to benefit.
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My boredom typically spurs feelings of frustration, guilt, shame—and long nutritionless spells of goggling, slack-jawed, at celebrity news on my phone while the world throbs around me.
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Pain that is not a word throbs in his shoulders, awakens him each morning.
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Jacob Whitehead Homophobic chant mars Mexico’s win Before the World Cup, the Mexican football federation launched a campaign that featured the heroes of the country’s 1986 World Cup side.
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No sadness mars the purity of its paranoia.
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“Hurts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hurts. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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