Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - hurt

~1 v past tense and past participle hurt 1 if a part of your body hurts, you feel pain in it  (My back hurts. | it hurts)  (Where does it hurt? | hurt sb)  (My shoulder's really hurting me. | hurt like hell (=hurt very much)) 2 if you hurt part of your body you injure it or make it feel painful, especially in an accident  (Several people were seriously hurt in the accident. | hurt your arm/leg/nose etc)  (I hurt my finger in the door | hurt yourself (=injure yourself))  (Careful you don't hurt yourself - it's very sharp.) 3 if something hurts part of your body, it makes it feel painful  (The sun's hurting my eyes) 4 to cause physical pain to someone  (Put that thing down - you might hurt someone with it.) 5 to make someone feel very upset, unhappy, sad etc  (hurt sb's feelings)  (I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. | what hurts is that)  (What really hurts is that he never even said goodbye. | hurt sb)  (The last thing I want to do is to hurt you.) 6 be hurting yourself to be making yourself feel even more unhappy, upset, sad, etc 7 to have a bad effect on someone or something, especially by making them less successful or powerful  (Foreign competition has definitely hurt the firm's position in the market.) 8 be hurting a) AmE informal to feel very upset, unhappy, sad etc b) if a group, organization etc is hurting, they do not have something important that they need, for example money + for  (Our division in Salem is hurting for competent staff right now.) 9 it won't/doesn't hurt (sb) to do sth spoken used to say that there is no reason why someone cannot or should not do something  (It won't hurt Julia to get up early for once.) 10 one more won't hurt spoken used to encourage someone to have another drink, piece of chocolate etc  (- compare harm2) ~2 adj 1 (not usually before noun physically injured  (badly/seriously hurt)  (This man needs a doctor - he's badly hurt.) 2 very upset or unhappy because someone has said or done something unkind, dishonest, or unfair  (a hurt expression | deeply hurt)  (I was feeling deeply hurt by what she had just said.) ~3 n a feeling of great unhappiness because someone, especially someone you trust, has treated you unkindly or unfairly  (the hurt caused by the breakup of his marriage)  (- compare harm1)