hurt: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 7 letter points · starts with H · ends with T
Meaning of hurt
verb
- intransitive, transitive
To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
Example: If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset.
- intransitive, transitive
To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
Example: He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.
- intransitive, stative
To be painful.
Example: Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.
- intransitive, transitive
To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.
Example: This latest gaffe hurts the legislator’s reelection prospects still further.
Listed forms: hurts, hurting, hurted, glossary, hurtest, hurtedst.
Source: Wiktionary — hurt.
adj
Wounded, physically injured.
Feeling physical or emotional pain.
Source: Wiktionary — hurt.
noun
- countable, uncountable
An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
Example: how to overcome old hurts of the past
- countable, uncountable
A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
- countable, uncountable
A husk.
- archaic, countable, uncountable
A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
Listed forms: hurts.
Source: Wiktionary — hurt.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for hurt.
adjective
suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle
adjective
damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value
noun
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
noun
psychological suffering
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is hurt in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of hurt
H(4) + U(1) + R(1) + T(1) = 7 points.
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Anagrams of hurt
2 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from hurt
5 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in hurt. Showing up to 24, longest first.