Definition of "hurt" []

• To cause physical damage or pain to; injure. (verb-transitive)
• To cause mental or emotional suffering to; distress. (verb-transitive)
• To cause physical damage to; harm: The frost hurt the orange crop. (verb-transitive)
• To be detrimental to; hinder or impair: The scandal hurt the candidate's chances for victory. (verb-transitive)
• To have or produce a feeling of physical pain or discomfort: My leg hurts. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Thus, it would be a very holy thing and work for Valencia to build a hostel or hospital where such insane or innocent persons could be housed so that they would not be wandering through the city and could not hurt nor be hurt»."
• "I wonder if ive hurt pple and stuff… or how many pple exactly have I hurt…"
• "Dyak's house was in bad repair, and a Malay fell in consequence and was hurt, or pretended to be hurt, a fine was imposed; if a Malay in the jungle was wounded by the springs set for a wild boar, or by the wooden spikes which the Dyaks for protection put about their village, or scratched himself and said he was injured, the penalty was heavy; if the Malay was _really hurt_, ever so accidentally, it was the ruin of the Dyak."