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.
HURTER
Hurt"er, n.
1. A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like. The pains of sickness and hurts . . . all men feel. Locke.
2. An injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a stain;
as of sin.
But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
Tennyson.
3. Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief. Thou dost me yet but little hurt. Shak.
Syn. — Wound; bruise; injury; harm; damage; loss; detriment; mischief; bane; disadvantage.
HURTER
Hurt"er, n.
Defn: One who hurts or does harm.
I shall not be a hurter, if no helper. Beau. & Fl.