I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
badly hurt/injured/wounded
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Fortunately no one was badly hurt.
get hurt/broken/stolen etc
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You might get hurt if you stand there.
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Mind the camera doesn’t get broken.
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My dad got killed in a car crash.
hurt sb's feelings (= make someone feel upset )
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I hope I didn't hurt your feelings.
injure/hurt your foot
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Simon injured his foot while playing rugby.
sb’s foot hurts
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She complained that her foot was hurting.
sb’s head hurts/aches/throbs
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Her head was throbbing and she needed to lie down.
seriously/injured/hurt/wounded
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He was seriously injured in a car accident on Friday.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
badly
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Another of those badly hurt was Mr Alan Ray, a taxi driver.
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My poor fellow, you are badly hurt .
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She came to Gentle's aid as soon as he appeared, the exchange between them short and functional: was he badly hurt ?
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Qaddafi escaped, although his daughter was killed and his prestige was badly hurt .
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He was treated at Darlington Memorial but was said to be not badly hurt .
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A young man who overestimated his ability got himself badly hurt .
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None of us was hurt badly .
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But they sharply curtailed their buying in the 1990s as a strengthening yen badly hurt their dollar-denominated positions.
deeply
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A source close to the player last night made it clear that he was deeply hurt at being dropped from the match.
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As a result some Volunteers were later surprised and deeply hurt .
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She was deeply hurt that Gabriel no longer loved her.
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They feel betrayed by the Church, they are deeply hurt and often openly claim to have lost their faith.
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There are people here who love Pat and who will be deeply hurt and upset by this brutal interference.
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But the one most deeply hurt was Rosie herself.
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Therefore when Jack's attitude and manner began to grow colder she was deeply hurt .
never
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It never hurts to be gentle and courteous as well as firm.
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But, miraculously, his feet never hurt him; not when walking on snow, not when walking through the mountains.
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I know you'd never hurt me.
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Finally, it never hurts to wear our own love of reading on our sleeve.
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We never hurt some one by being honest and genuine.
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So, it never hurts to have a gimmick.
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In business it never hurts to be cautious.
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Ulf Samuelsson never hurt him this badly.
really
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He saw that he had really hurt the Woman.
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This is what really hurt his sisters.
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It is the struggle to suppress our pain which really hurts .
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The Soviets were really hurting at the time in terms of economics and foreign exchange.
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But what really hurts is the friendly fire.
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Yeah, but it really hurt then!
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These games don't really hurt me, only yourself.
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It really hurts me to have people get mad at me.
seriously
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Mosley was himself quite seriously hurt by a brick at a meeting in Liverpool in 1937.
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Unfavorable weather conditions have seriously hurt three of the last four cherry harvests.
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Fortunately Diana was not seriously hurt by the fall although she did suffer severe bruising around her stomach.
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Fortunately only one legislator was seriously hurt .
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I'd been right in thinking that he wasn't seriously hurt , and they soon had him well again.
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If both children in these examples were to become flexible caretakers, their parents would be seriously hurt .
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His nose had bled and his forehead and face were badly bruised from his fall; but he was not seriously hurt .
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It was a miracle none of us was seriously hurt .
still
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He lives in the same town and it still hurts her to see him.
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But as soon as the game began, it was obvious that Young was still hurting .
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Her feet still hurt and she felt the tingle of cramp in her right arm where Jane's head rested heavily.
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But the relief was expected to be short-lived, because the economy and corporate earnings are still hurting .
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My thighs were still hurting as we carried on into the countryside, in spite of the folded jacket.
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Three years after the surgery, the unhealed scar still hurt on occasion.
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Surely it should not be hurting still , so long after he'd supposedly accepted his wife's insanity?
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It still hurt a little, but I wanted it.
■ NOUN
arm
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It hurt her arms but had no effect on the android.
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It hurt his arm a little.
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So many fighters say their elbow hurt , their arm hurt, their foot hurt.
child
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And that, in turn, can hurt your child .
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There is quite an art in scattering the pennies so that they do not hurt the children .
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Sometimes when I see movies that hurt me as a child , the pain is minor.
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Other parents complained that he hurt their children and these complaints made the staff feel challenged and uneasy.
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Therefore he was free to behave as irresponsibly as he liked without fear of hurting me or our child .
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The poor, hurt , silly child .
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On such a splendid and most holy day you do not want to read about hurt children .
hell
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I know he lost his legs first, and then his fingers-he died alone and it hurt like hell .
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I was able to breathe only with the utmost difficulty, and my arm hurt like hell .
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It hurt like hell but he was damned if he was going to let the gunman escape.
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My forehead hurt like hell and my body was bruised all over, but no bones were broken.
leg
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At the end of every day his back was tired and his legs hurt , but he slept like a baby.
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Plus, I was hurt , my leg was hurting.
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Her leg hurt as if the muscles were strung too tightly from hip to knee.
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I've got gravel wounds in my back and my leg hurts where they took a skin graft.
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Her legs began to hurt and she considered from time to time the possibility of varicose veins.
people
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It's not in my nature to hurt people .
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But he will know as he is playing them that hurting people is wrong.
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Bogdanovich is not in the business of prescribing exercises that will hurt people .
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He's still got the power to hurt people .
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The other camp thought we were there to hurt people on purpose, to cause infections and maim people.
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Police suspected that the boys, whose fun and games hurt a lot of people , were on drugs.
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But it hurts when people get the idea there are programs for us here and for them over there.
pride
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I hurt her pride and she was never able to come to terms with that.
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All account-making springs from False Personality; through hurt vanity or pride , or wounded self-conceit, etc.
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His wife has a job and it hurts his pride , although he is grateful for the money.
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Two walking sticks used to hurt his pride .
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It hurt his pride and inevitably he became jealous.
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For the first time in his career he had failed to produce the goods and that hurt his pride .
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A surge of male vanity and hurt pride swept over him.
■ VERB
want
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And say that we don't want anyone to get hurt .
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Because they were in the same survival network and did not want to hurt the officials' careers.
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Yes, she's sided against you with your ex but do you really want to hurt her?
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They did not want to hurt me.
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I didn't want to hurt either of them and I didn't see why we couldn't make a threesome.
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On such a splendid and most holy day you do not want to read about hurt children.
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I don't want her hurt .
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But 1 never wanted to hurt her, 1 want you to know that.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
run/hurt/fight etc like hell
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I know he lost his legs first, and then his fingers-he died alone and it hurt like hell .
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I remember running like hell , knowing I was being pursued and looking back for Sarah, who didn't join me.
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I was able to breathe only with the utmost difficulty, and my arm hurt like hell .
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Must have fought like hell to find its niche within the forest, to distinguish itself within the pack.
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My forehead hurt like hell and my body was bruised all over, but no bones were broken.
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Run, North, run; just run like hell .
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Spring sauntered north, but he had to run like hell to keep it as his traveling companion.
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We fought like hell for most of the time.
sb wouldn't hurt/harm a fly
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dan was a good man. He'd never hurt anyone deliberately.
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Did it hurt when they stuck the needle in?
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I can't go running this week - I've hurt my foot.
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I fell and banged my knee, and it really hurts.
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I wanted to sit down, 'cause my leg was really hurting me.
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I would never do anything to hurt her.
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It hurts me to think that you still don't trust me.
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It hurts my knees to run.
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It really hurt me that Troy didn't even bother to introduce me.
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It won't hurt , I promise.
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Let go of my arm! You're hurting me!
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Most companies have been hurt by the economic slowdown.
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My feet hurt .
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My neck felt stiff and my shoulder hurt .
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Nick's hurt his back, and the doctor says he will have to rest for a few weeks.
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Put the stick down, Terry. You might hurt someone with it.
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Sammy! Don't throw stones, you'll hurt someone.
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Stop it - you're hurting me.
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That's a sharp knife. Be careful you don't hurt yourself.
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The fact that his parents take little interest in his life hurts him more than he admits.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Charlton coped easily defensively, knowing that Boro lacked the pace to hurt them.
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It is going to hurt him here.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
badly
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I was badly hurt , but I escaped and ran into the open country.
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He sees a specialist tomorrow but the club are optimistic that he is not as badly hurt as first feared.
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Can't you see the boy's badly hurt .
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Penguins and seals have been found entangled in lengths of fishing net, some of them dead and many others badly hurt .
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Then he saw, with relief, that she did not seem to be badly hurt .
seriously
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None of the children have been seriously hurt .
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But an ambulance spokesman said the man was not seriously hurt , although he suffered shock.
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The stadium's been warned to improve the track before some one is seriously hurt .
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A third passenger, a seventeen year old girl, was not seriously hurt .
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There was no real risk or danger - he would just have been buffeted, not seriously hurt .
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None of the elderly people involved is seriously hurt , but police say they quite easily could have been.
■ NOUN
pride
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Exhaustion triumphed over hurt pride and other parts of the anatomy.
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And as for last night's embarrassment, hurt pride could heal, if she set her mind to it.
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It was foolish hurt pride that made me behave so coldly towards you.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hit sb where it hurts
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Instead of locking up drug offenders, hit them where it really hurts - in the wallet.
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Tax day hits him hard, hits him where it hurts the most.
run/hurt/fight etc like hell
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I know he lost his legs first, and then his fingers-he died alone and it hurt like hell .
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I remember running like hell , knowing I was being pursued and looking back for Sarah, who didn't join me.
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I was able to breathe only with the utmost difficulty, and my arm hurt like hell .
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Must have fought like hell to find its niche within the forest, to distinguish itself within the pack.
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My forehead hurt like hell and my body was bruised all over, but no bones were broken.
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Run, North, run; just run like hell .
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Spring sauntered north, but he had to run like hell to keep it as his traveling companion.
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We fought like hell for most of the time.
sb wouldn't hurt/harm a fly
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a hurt expression
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Bill felt very hurt when he realized she had lied to him.
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Gretta was really hurt that none of her friends came to visit her in the hospital.
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Jackson was said to be 'deeply hurt ' by the newspaper reports about him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I've been through it all before, and I felt sure you were going to get hurt .
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I don't want anybody to get hurt .
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In part two: Hard Cheese.Bank holiday tradition leaves twelve hurt .
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Male speaker People are going to get hurt , whichever way the vote goes.
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None of the children have been seriously hurt .
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The lightning bolt hit the house in Kingsteignton, south Devon, but no-one was hurt , said police.
III. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I cannot describe the hurt and anger I feel.
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Sylvie could still remember the hurt of being treated like an outsider.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I can hardly see it anyway, through the mist of my hurt .
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It was the time of my own personal greatness, before any human hurt had got in the way.
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Man, however, lacks the emotional capacity of woman, and can stand free of sentimental attachments or hurts.
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She already knew that she would but inside she felt a great hurt begin to grow.
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Their hurt found expression in the person of the secretary's wife, sitting opposite.