hurting

«hurting» in Mova's judaism dictionary: causing pain or injury: You are hurting me! — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (present participle of hurt: hurt, hurts, hurt, hurting); adjective (hurting, informal)

meaning for a pupil

1) Hurting means causing pain or injury: You are hurting me! tree →

2) Hurting means feeling pain: My knee is hurting. tree →

3) Hurting can mean upsetting someone's feelings: hurting someone's feelings. tree →

sense in the lessons

In safety and behaviour lessons: tell an adult if something is hurting you, or if someone is hurting you or another child; hurting others, even as a joke, is not OK. In feelings lessons, unkind words can be hurting as well as hits. Phrases: hurting someone's feelings, stop hurting, it is hurting, without hurting.

examples

• My tummy is hurting. tree →
• Stop it, you are hurting me! tree →
• He did not mean to hurt her feelings. tree →
• Tell the nurse if your arm is still hurting. tree →
• Mean words can be hurting too. tree →
• The dog was hurting, so we took it to the vet. tree →
• Be gentle so you are not hurting the kitten. tree →
• Her feet were hurting after the long walk. tree →

note

Hurt has the same form in present, past and past participle (hurt, hurt, hurt): not «hurted». One r in hurting. «It hurts» and «it is hurting» both describe pain.

In the corpora

• A scan picture is made by a machine that uses sound waves to see the baby inside the body without hurting.
• Animals feel pain and fear like us, so hurting them on purpose is wrong.
• You are hurting me!).
• "Being diplomatic" means not saying what you really think, to avoid hurting or angering someone.
• Having a feeling is never wrong, but hurting someone because of it is.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hurting» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.