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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hurt \Hurt\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Hurt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hurting}.] [OE. hurten, hirten, horten, herten; prob. fr. OF. hurter, heurter, to knock, thrust, strike, F. heurter; cf. W. hyrddu to push, drive, assault, hwrdd a stroke, blow, push; also, a ram, the orig. sense of the verb thus perhaps being, to butt as a ram; cf. D. horten to push, strike, MHG. hurten, both prob. fr. Old French.]
1. To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.
The hurt lion groans within his den. --Dryden.
2. To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm.
Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt. --Milton.
3. To wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve. ''I am angry and hurt.'' --Thackeray.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
hurting \hurting\ n. a feeling of pain.
Syn: pain. [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
hurting \hurting\ adjective
1. aching when touched.
Syn: sensitive, sore, tender. [WordNet 1.5]
2. In distress; experiencing difficulty; as, with the dollar exchange rate so high, companies dependent on exports are really hurting. [Colloq.] [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hurting
noun: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; "the patient developed severe pain and distension" [syn: {pain}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
97 Moby Thesaurus words for "hurting": Schmerz, aches and pains, aching, acute, afflicted, afflictive, agonized, agonizing, algetic, atrocious, bankruptcy, biting, breakage, breakdown, collapse, convulsed, crack-up, cramping, crippling, crucified, cruel, damage, destruction, detriment, dilapidation, disablement, discomfort, disrepair, distress, distressed, distressing, dolor, encroachment, excruciating, gnawing, grave, griping, hard, harm, harrowed, harrowing, harsh, hobbling, hurt, hurtful, impairment, in distress, in pain, incapacitation, infringement, injury, inroad, lacerated, loss, maiming, malaise, martyred, martyrized, mayhem, mischief, misery, mutilation, on the rack, pain, pained, painful, paroxysmal, piercing, poignant, pungent, racked, racking, ruination, ruinousness, sabotage, scathe, severe, sharp, shooting, sickening, sore, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spoiling, stabbing, stinging, suffering, tormented, tormenting, tortured, torturous, twisted, under the harrow, weakening, wounded, wrung
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