hurt

v

1. ache, smart, burn, sting, bite, nip, pinch, gripe; gnaw, grind, grate, rasp, chafe; throb, palpitate, tingle.

2. injure, wound; cut, scratch, prick, pierce, stab, lancinate; bruise, sprain, strain; beat, pommel, batter, pound, lay on, drub; cudgel, club, bludgeon, hammer, blackjack, baste, Inf. lambaste, bastinado; sandbag, buffet, box, punch; strike, smite, hit.

3. whip, thrash, Inf. lace, flog, flail, flagellate; strap, belt, cane, birch; spank, Archaic. swinge, trounce; chastise, punish.

4. abuse, maltreat, ill-treat, ill-use, misuse, do violence to; manhandle, maul, mangle, mutilate, Sl. lay into, maim, scar; lame, cripple, becripple, hamstring; disable, incapacitate, debilitate.

5. pain, torment, anguish, agonize, torture, rack, excruciate; aggrieve, grieve, sorrow, sadden, despond, dishearten, depress; scathe, cut to the quick, cut to the heart, wound the feelings; insult, affront, give offense, give umbrage; snap at, assail, bite the hand that feeds one.

6. harrow, distress, discommode, afflict; faze, shake, unstring, discompose.

7. spoil, harm, impair, disqualify, unfit; mar, damage, vitiate, Law. damnify; blemish, blight, blunt, dull, crack, craze; break, break up, break apart, fragmentize, burst; smash, smash to smithereens, shatter; devastate, lay waste, make waste, desolate; pillage, ravage, despoil.

8. corrupt, subvert, canker; debase, pervert, warp, prostitute, degrade; defile, deflower, contaminate, taint, pollute, infect; alloy, adulterate, tamper with, doctor; weaken, enfeeble, Archaic. extenuate, debilitate, devitalize, exhaust, sap, sap the strength of, spend.

n

9. pain, soreness, ache, aching, discomfort, malaise; throb, throbbing, twinge, pinch; sting, gripe, nip, pang, shock, crick, stitch; sore, scratch, cut, laceration; malady, illness, disease; wound, trauma, blow, shock.

10. injury, harm, impairment, vitiation, damage, scathe; abuse, misuse, ill-usage, maltreatment, ill treatment; oppression, cruelty, brutality, persecution, molestation; evil, wrong, bad, badness; foul play, bad turn, ill turn, ill service, disservice.

11. torture, torment, agony; misery, woe, Archaic. bale, dolor, anguish, affliction; distress, trouble, bother, botherment, pother.

12. block, impediment, reversal, setback, comedown, detriment, loss; plight, strait, predicament, sea of troubles; ordeal, trial, tribulation, infliction; burden, cross, crown of thorns, load, bitter pill; cares, pressure, stress, strain; adversity, accident, mishap; bad fortune, bad luck, bad times, hard times, evil days; malediction, bane, curse, anathema.

13. destruction, breakage, breaking; devastation, laying waste, desolation, labefaction.

14. corruption, subversion, adulteration, perversion; defilement, pollution, contamination; canker, blight, cancer, blast, plague, infestation.

adj

15. injured, wounded; aching, bruised, pierced, stung, griped, stabbed, pricked, chafed, galled, burnt; tortured, tormented, agonized, excruciated.

16. aggrieved, grieved, pained, suffering, sorrowful, sad, rueful, mournful; heartsick, heartbroken, brokenhearted, heart-stricken, heavy-hearted, heavy-laden; weary, careworn, dejected, cheerless, comfortless; woeful, woebegone, wretched, gloomy, dismal, morose; melancholy, unhappy, infelicitous.

17. chagrined, embarrassed, ashamed, shamed; sorry, regretful, regretting, remorseful, repentent.

18. shocked, appalled, horrified; offended, annoyed, displeased, piqued, miffed; resentful, resenting, bitter, rancorous, virulent.

19. unwell, indisposed, ailing, unsound, diseased; feeble, enfeebled, unsteady, lame, crippled; fading, declining, deteriorating, deteriorated.

20. damaged, impaired, broken, out of repair, in disrepair, Sl. out of whack; worn, dilapidated, ruined, wasted, Sl. totaled.