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/hɜːt/ · verb
(transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury..
If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset.
This injection might hurt a little. Your arm will be hurting you for a while.
He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.
The insult hurt.
Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.
This latest gaffe hurts the legislator’s reelection prospects still further.
Copying and pasting identical portions of source code hurts maintainability, because the programmer has to keep all those copies synchronized.
It wouldn't hurt to check the weather forecast and find out if it's going to rain.
Use hurt when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hurt means (transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury..
Common synonyms include ache, afflict, aggrieve, agonize.
Possible antonyms include alleviate, analgesize, comfort, dave.
If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset.
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