What does hurt mean?
Word: Hurt
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Hurt means to cause pain or injury to a person or animal. It can also mean to feel pain, as in 'My knee hurts', or to upset someone's feelings.
Synonyms: injure, harm, wound
Antonyms: comfort
How do you spell hurt?
Syllables: hurt
Tricky part: The middle sound can be spelt er, ir or ur in English, so children write hert or hirt. In hurt it is ur.
Watch out for: hert, hirt
Memory tip: When a friend falls, you ask, 'Are you hurt?' The u and r in the middle of hurt sound just like 'you are'.
Idioms and Phrases
- would not hurt a fly: To be very gentle and never harm anyone. Example: "Our old dog Bruno looks fierce, but he would not hurt a fly."
Hurt in a sentence
Example 1: I hurt my elbow when I slipped on the wet floor.
Example 2: Rohan's unkind words hurt his little sister.
Example 3: Does your tooth still hurt after the dentist's visit?
Fun Fact
Hurt came into English from the Old French word hurter, which meant to knock or bump into something.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) bruse
b) woundid
c) hurt
d) scrach
Show answer
c) hurt. Only hurt is spelt right; woundid drops the e of wounded, and bruse and scrach each lose a letter.
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word: hurt
a) pinch
b) sting
c) ache
d) heal
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d) heal. To heal is to make well again; to ache, sting or pinch is to hurt in some way.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Rohan fell off the swing but did not hurte himself.
a) swing
b) fell
c) himself
d) hurte
Show answer
d) hurte. Hurt stops at the t; there is no e after it.
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
hurt____
a) fol
b) fel
c) ful
d) full
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c) ful. Hurtful means causing hurt, and the ending has a single l.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In which sentence does hurt mean 'upset someone's feelings'?
a) I hurt my toe on the step.
b) The bee sting hurt for an hour.
c) Losing the final hurt Arjun's pride.
d) My legs hurt after the long run.
Show answer
c) Losing the final hurt Arjun's pride.
2. Sana says, 'My throat hurts.' What does she mean?
a) She has lost her voice.
b) It is sore and painful.
c) It feels cold and stiff.
d) She is very thirsty.
Show answer
b) It is sore and painful.
