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to hurtin'

to hurtin'

9.9
To feel physical pain or strong discomfort
  • verb
  • /ˈhɜrtɪn/
  • Slang
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  • If one person is hurting, we all hurt.

It takes as long as it takes and it hurts and it tests you.

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Examples

  • You know, after the parade, bro, my wrist was hurting doing a wave.

  • That doesn't help you when you're hurting and when you're in pain.

  • Apparently this is hurting my, my heart right now.

  • But Mike, it's really hurting at this point.

  • So yeah, that happened and now I'm hurting pretty bad.

  • Like as long as you're not hurting anyone it's OK?

  • If one person is hurtin', we all hurt.

  • Apparently this is hurtin' my, my heart right now.

  • So yeah, that happened and now I'm hurtin' pretty bad.

How Painful

agony
135 3.9
to suffer
∞ 2.0
to hurtin'
  • Slang
9.9
ache
92 1.3

Surface Forms

hurtin' infinitive
hurtin' present participle
hurtin's third person singular
hurt past
hurt past participle

Morphology

hurtin' = hurt (transparent) = hurt + in'

Colloquial orthographic variant of 'hurting' (hurt + -ing); the progressive/state meaning is directly derived from the base verb 'hurt'.

Etymology

Hurtin' is a casual form of hurt + -ing, where speakers drop the final 'g' in speech. hurt means 'to feel pain', so hurtin' simply means being 'in pain' or sore after something hard.