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to hurtin'

to hurtin'

9.8
To cause physical or emotional pain to someone
  • verb
  • /ˈhɜrtɪn/
  • Informal
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  • And I don't like hurting anybody, especially not people that have done nothing wrong.

And we don't have a problem hurting others to be that way.

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Examples

  • They're not concerned about hurting someone else.

  • I want you to let me know that my punches are hurting you, that my punches are affecting you.

  • More and more people hurt you, more and more people let you down.

    Ed Mylett

  • How can I leave without hurting everyone that made me?

  • I mean, it is just really, really hurting so many people.

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  • Hurting people he loved was almost as good as hurting himself.

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  • I don't like hurtin' my friends with my words, so I try to be careful when I speak.

  • She was hurtin' after her breakup, feeling sadness that was hard to shake off.

  • I could see that his comments were hurtin' her feelings deeply.

Synonyms

to hurt
vsto hurtin'
∞ 1.0

Make someone suffer physical or emotional pain

is the informal colloquial version used in casual speech
to injure
vsto hurtin'
52 2.5

Hurt someone's feelings by saying or doing something

also includes physical injury rather than only emotional harm

Antonyms

to heal
481 1.2

To become healthy again after an injury, illness, or emotional pain

to comfort
172 1.0

To make someone feel less upset or in pain

How Harmful

to maim
  • NSFW
35 7.0
to injure
53 1.6
to hurtin'
  • Informal
9.8
to bruise
102 2.6
scratch
203 1.6

Surface Forms

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

Morphology

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

Colloquial present-participle form of 'hurt' (hurt + -ing); the causative/transitive meaning is directly derived from the verb base.

Etymology

Hurtin' is also an informal way to say someone is causing pain, from hurt + -ing. Because hurt means 'to cause pain', to be hurtin' someone is to be 'making them feel pain' or upsetting them.