hurt

«hurt» in Mova's school dictionary: To cause pain or injury to a body: "I hurt my knee." — 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 (hurt, hurts, hurt, hurting); adjective (hurt — injured or upset); noun (hurt — pain, sadness)

meaning for a pupil

1) To cause pain or injury to a body: "I hurt my knee." tree →

2) To feel pain: "My head hurts." tree →

3) To make someone feel sad or upset: "Her words hurt me." tree →

4) To cause damage or harm: "It won't hurt to ask." tree →

sense in the lessons

In safety lessons: if you are hurt, tell an adult; never hurt animals or people; if someone hurts you, it is not your fault, and you should tell. In feelings: words can hurt as well as hits. Phrases: get hurt, hurt feelings, it won't hurt to, badly hurt.

examples

• I fell and hurt my arm. tree →
• My tummy hurts. tree →
• Be careful or you'll get hurt. tree →
• Mean words can hurt people's feelings. tree →
• Never hurt an animal. tree →
• Does it hurt when I press here? tree →
• It won't hurt to ask the teacher. tree →
• She felt hurt when nobody played with her. tree →
• "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. tree →

note

Past tense and past participle are both "hurt" (not "hurted"). "Hurt" and "injured" are close; injured is for bodies only. Telling an adult when someone hurts you is not tattling; it is staying safe.

In the corpora

• A scan picture is made by a machine that uses sound waves to see the baby inside the body without hurting.
• Dentists check teeth every six months to a year to catch small problems, like holes, before they hurt.
• Rights belong to everyone, and freedom stops where it starts to hurt others.
• Your freedom stops where it starts to hurt other people.
• Most people think tiny kind lies are OK, but big lies that hurt people or hide important things are not.

Trees and pragmatics

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