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hurting

verbnounadjectivecommon in dialogue

A sensation that hurts.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of hurtpresent participle and gerund of hurt

noun

  1. 1

    A sensation that hurts.

    Surely, it may be urged, no one else can be the subject of my very hurtings or my very itchings. Other people can hurt or itch in the same way […]

adjective

  1. 1

    Feeling or causing pain.

Forms

plural
hurtings
comparative
more hurting
superlative
most hurting
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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).