hurt - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

the act of damaging something or someone

Synonyms

• damage
• harm
• hurt
• scathe

More generic

• change of integrity

More specific

• burn
• defacement
• defloration
• disfiguration
• disfigurement
• impairment
• mutilation
• wound
• wounding

Noun

a damage or loss

Synonyms

• detriment
• hurt

More generic

• damage
• harm
• impairment

More specific

• expense

Noun

feelings of mental or physical pain

Synonyms

• hurt
• suffering

More generic

• pain
• painfulness

More specific

• agony
• discomfort
• irritation
• soreness
• throes
• torment
• torture

Noun

psychological suffering

Synonyms

• distress
• hurt
• suffering

More generic

• pain
• painfulness

More specific

• anguish
• self-torment
• self-torture
• torment
• torture
• tsoris
• wound

Noun

any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

Synonyms

• harm
• hurt
• injury
• trauma

More generic

• health problem
• ill health
• unhealthiness

More specific

• birth trauma
• bite
• blast trauma
• bleeding
• blunt trauma
• brain damage
• break
• bruise
• bump
• burn
• contusion
• cryopathy
• dislocation
• electric shock
• fracture
• frostbite
• haemorrhage
• hemorrhage
• insect bite
• intravasation
• lesion
• penetrating injury
• penetrating trauma
• pinch
• pull
• rupture
• sting
• strain
• twist
• wale
• weal
• welt
• wheal
• whiplash
• whiplash injury
• wound
• wrench

Verb

give trouble or pain to

Synonyms

• hurt

More generic

• indispose

More specific

• ail
• disagree with
• injure
• pain
• trouble
• wound

Related

• ache
• hurt
• smart

Verb

feel pain or be in pain

Synonyms

• hurt
• suffer

More generic

• be

More specific

• ail
• choke
• famish
• gag
• have
• hunger
• starve
• strangle
• suffocate

Verb

cause damage or affect negatively

Synonyms

• hurt
• injure

More generic

• damage

Verb

cause emotional anguish or make miserable

Synonyms

• anguish
• hurt
• pain

More generic

• discomfit
• discompose
• disconcert
• untune
• upset

More specific

• agonise
• agonize
• break someone's heart
• excruciate
• rack
• torment
• torture
• try

Related

• suffer

Verb

hurt the feelings of

Synonyms

• bruise
• hurt
• injure
• offend
• spite
• wound

More generic

• arouse
• elicit
• enkindle
• evoke
• fire
• kindle
• provoke
• raise

More specific

• abase
• affront
• chagrin
• diss
• humble
• humiliate
• insult
• lacerate
• mortify
• sting

Verb

feel physical pain

Synonyms

• ache
• hurt
• suffer

More generic

• comprehend
• perceive

More specific

• catch
• get
• kill
• prick
• sting
• twinge

Verb

be the source of pain

Synonyms

• ache
• hurt
• smart

More generic

• cause to be perceived

More specific

• act up
• bite
• burn
• hunger
• itch
• shoot
• sting
• thirst
• throb

Adjective

damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value

Synonyms

• hurt
• weakened

Related

• damaged

Adjective

suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle

Synonyms

• hurt
• wounded

Related

• injured

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